Synopses & Reviews
The Handbook of Critical and Intensive Care Medicine, second edition, is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide for physicians, residents, and healthcare practitioners who cover the ICU. The book's up-to-date information includes frequently performed procedures and therapeutic guidelines that have great efficacy and relevance in everyday ICU rotations. The book is divided into sections based on organ system, and each chapter uses an outline format and numerous tables and charts for quick and easy reference.
Review
From the reviews of the second edition: "This pocket manual, written in outline format, summarizes many of the key principles and formulas important in the intensive care unit. ... Practitioners at all levels may benefit from this work, but ... the most appropriate audience would be new critical care physicians arriving in the ICU with background training in physiology. ... This handbook is a worthy introduction to ICU practice for novices who have had previous clinical rotation experience and training in physiology." (David J. Dries, Doody's Review Service, February, 2010)
Synopsis
Here is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide for healthcare practitioners who cover the ICU. The book's up-to-date information includes frequently performed procedures and therapeutic guidelines that have great efficacy and relevance in everyday ICU rotations.
Table of Contents
1.Approach to the Intensive Care Unit 2.The Basics of Critical Care 3.Cardiovascular Disorders 4.Endocrinologic Disorders 5.Environmental Disorders 6.Gastrointestinal Disorders 7.Hematologic Disorders 8.Infections in the ICU 9.Neurologic Disorders 10.Nutrition 11.Critical Care Oncology 12.Pregnancy 13.Pulmonary Disorders 14.Renal and Fluid-Electrolyte Disorders 15.Special Procedures and Techniques 16.Toxicology 17.Trauma 18.Allergic and Immunologic Emergencies 19.Pharmacologic Agents Commonly Used in the ICU 20.Laboratory Values in the ICU