The intensive care unit (ICU) is an intimidating environment for junior doctors entering it for the first time. This book aims to give them practical guidance on the day-to-day procedures and problems they will encounter. The book should be of interest and relevance to Senior House Officers training in anaesthesia, medicine and surgery and SHOs from all these specialties rotate through the ICU. This is a "white coat pocket" book designed for hour-by-hour consultation.
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Höhe: 210 mm
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978-0-443-05363-4 (9780443053634)
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Director, Intensive Care Unit, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds
Consultant, Intensive Care, St James's University Hospital, Leeds
SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION: Aims and Definitions. Multidisciplinary Approach. Admission Policies. Prediction of Outcome. Discharge Policies. Talking to Relatives. Ethical and Legal Issues. Medical Notes. Consent. HIV Testing. Confidentiality. Dealing with Death. Issuing a Death Certificate. Reporting Deaths to the Coroner. Brain-Stem Death and Organ Donation. Death and Different Cultural Views SECTION 2 BASIC PRINCIPLES: Infection Control. Assessing a Patient. Sedation and Analgesia. Muscle Relaxants. Psychological Care. Fluid and Electrolyte Balance. Nutrition. Enteral Feeding. Total Parenteral Nutrition. Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis. DVT Prophylaxis. APACHE Scoring. Other Scoring Systems SECTION 3 CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM: Definition of Shock. Oxygen Delivery and Oxygen Consumption. Cardiac Output (CO). Optimizing Haemodynamic Status. Disturbance of Cardiac Rhythm. Conduction Defects. Myocardial Ischaemia. Acute Myocardial Infarction. Cardiac Failure. Cardiogenic Shock. Cardiac Arrest SECTION 4 RESPIRATORY SYSTEM: Definition of Respiratory Failure. Interpretation of Blood Gases. Assessment of a Patient with Respiratory Failure. Management of Respiratory Failure. Principles of Artificial Ventilation. Complications of IV. Alternative Modes of Ventilation. Weaning from Artificial Ventilation Pneumonia. Nosocomial Pneumonia. Pneumonia in Immunocompromised Patient. Aspiration Pneumonitis. Asthma. Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease (COAD). Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). Interpreting Chest X-Rays in ICU SECTION 5 GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM: Gastrointestinal System. Gastrointestinal Tract Failure. Gastrointestinal Bleeding. Fulminant Hepatic Failure. Pancreatitis SECTION 6 RENAL SYSTEM: Renal Dysfunction Investigations of Acute Renal Dysfunction. Problems of Acute Renal Failure (ARF). Management of Acute Renal Failure (ARF). Management of Chronic Renal Failure (CRF). Prescribing in Renal Failure. Plasma Exc Hange SECTION 7 METABOLIC, ENDOCRINE and DRUG ABUSE PROBLEMS: Sodium. Potassium. Calcium. Phosphate. Magnes
