Synopses & Reviews
This updated and revised edition of the classic bedside pocket reference remains the gold standard in critical care medicine. The new edition maintains Dr. Marik's trademark humor and engaging writing style, while adding numerous references to make this book the most current and thorough treatment of evidence-based critical care available. The handbook enables the clinician to find the evidence to support or refute an intervention and to help choose the most appropriate, cost-effective treatment. The analysis of treatment strategies is presented by organ system, and the handbook also covers miscellaneous ICU topics (such as sedation, toxicology, radiology, and sepsis) based on the most frequently found and difficult to solve problems in ICU patient management.
Review
From the reviews of the second edition: "This is one of the most comprehensive handbooks on critical care medicine with a strong emphasis on evidence base. ... The contents of this handbook cover many aspects of critical care medicine and some of the information is extremely useful for junior medical staff without prior exposure to critical care ... . Overall, this book should be useful for junior doctors or intensive care trainees who are starting their term in an intensive care unit." (K. M. Ho, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Vol. 39 (2), March, 2011)
Table of Contents
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