Manual of Intensive Care Medicine

Completely rewritten and updated for the Fifth Edition, this Spiral Manual remains the leading quick-reference guide to both medical and surgical intensive care. The essential principles, protocols, and techniques from Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine, Sixth Edition have been distilled into a portable, practical manual that is ideal for rapid bedside consultation. The user-friendly outline format features numerous tables, illustrations, and annotated references. Highlights of this Fifth Edition include a comprehensive overdoses and poisonings section presented in tabular format, new chapters on minimally invasive monitoring in the ICU, and completely revised cardiology and hematology sections.

Table of Contents

SECTION HEADINGS

PROCEDURES AND TECHNIQUES

CARDIOVASCULAR PROBLEMS AND CORONARY CARE

PULMONARY PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

RENAL PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

INFECTIOUS DISEASE PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

GASTROINTESTINAL AND HEPATOBILIARY PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

ENDOCRINE PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

HEMATOLOGIC PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

PHARMACOLOGY, OVERDOSES, AND POISONINGS

SURGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

SHOCK AND TRAUMA

NEUROLOGIC PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

TRANSPLANTATION

RHEUMATOLOGIC AND IMMUNOLOGIC PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

PSYCHIATRIC ISSUES IN INTENSIVE CARE

MORAL, ETHICAL, LEGAL ISSUES AND PUBLIC POLICY IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

APPENDIX: CALCULATIONS COMMONLY USED IN CRITICAL CARE