Handbook of Evidence-Based Critical Care

PART ONE / INTRODUCTION INTO CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE / 1.Evidence based Critical Care Medicine / 2.Classic Critical Care Papers / 3.Critical Care Medicine 101 / 4.Housekeeping Guidelines / 5.Admission-Discharge Criteria / 6.ICU Procedures / 7.Chronic Critical Illness / 8.Fluid Resuscitation and volume assessment / 9.Sedation and analgesia / 10.Sepsis / 11.Catheter related blood stream infection / 12.Antibiotics / 13.Fever / PART TWO / RESPIRATORY / 14.Mechanical Ventilation 101 / 15.Non invasive positive pressure ventilation / 16.Weaning (Liberation) / 17.Ventilator associated pneumonia / 18.Community acquired pneumonia / 19.ARDs / 20.Aspiration Pneumonia and Pneumonitis / 21.Deep venous thrombosis-Pulmonary embolism / 22.COPD Exacerbation / 23.Acute Severe Asthma / 24.Pleural Effusions and Atelectasis / CARDIAC / 25.Hypertensive crises / 26.Acute coronory syndromes / 27.ST-Segment Elevation Mycardial Infarction / 28.Arrhythmias / 29.Acute decompensated cardiac failure / 30.Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / GASTROINTESTINAL / 31.Nutrition / 32.Stress-ulcer prophylaxis / 33.Chronic liver failure / 34.Alcoholic hepatitis / 35.Fulminant Hepatic Failure / 36.GI bleeding / 37.Pancreatitis / 38.Diarrhea and constipation / METABOLIC / 39.Stress Hyperglycemia And Glycemic Control / 40.Adrenal failure and CIRCI / 41.Hypo- and Hypercalcemia / 42.Electrolyte disturbances / 43.Acid-base disturbances / 44.Acute renal failure / 45.Rhabdomyolysis / CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM / 46.Ischemic Strokes and Intracerebral Hemmorhage / 47.Delirium / 48.Seizures & Status Epilepticus
49.Management of Raised ICP / 50.Subarachnoid hemorrhage /
PART 3 / MISCELLANEOUS ICU TOPICS / 51.Anemia and RBC Transfusion / 52.Coagulopathy and FFP transfusions / 53.Thrombocytopenia and platelet transfusions
54.Eclampsia / 55.Management issues in the elderly / 56.Management issues in the obese patient / 57.Multi-organ dysfunction syndrome / 58.Therapeutic hypothermia / 59.Toxicology / 60.Alcohol withdrawal syndromes / 61.Serotonin syndrome / 62.Radiology / 63.PRES / 64.End-of-Life Issues / 65.What Defines an Intensive Care Unit? Implications for Organizational Structure / 66.Intra-Hospital Transport / 67.Limiting Errors & Avoiding Litigation / 68.Avoiding theraputic misadventures in the ICU / 69.The "Devils" Medicine Bag / 70.Words of Wisdom