Main description:

This much-needed and lucid text on critical care includes 111 contributions from eminent critical care physicians. It includes certain topics that are relevant to India like poisoning, tropical infections, end-of-life care and pregnancy-related issues and covers the practical aspects of mechanical ventilation for the readers. Illustrated with radiographic images, photographs, diagrams, flow charts and tables, this book is essential for postgraduates and practicing intensivists.

Contents:

1. Assessment of Critically Ill Patients

2. Airway Management in ICU

3. Hemodynamic Monitoring in ICU

4. Fluid Balance in Critically Ill Patients

5. Vasopressors and Inotropes

6. Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

7. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A Paradigm Shift

8. Therapeutic Hypothermia

9. Management of Organ Donor

10. Scoring Systems in ICU

11. Guidelines for ICU Planning and Designing in India

12. Guidelines and Protocols in ICU

13. Clinical Audit and Handoff in ICU

14. Critical Care Nursing in India

Section 2: Cardiac Care

15. Acute Coronary Syndrome

16. Heart Failure

17. Cardiac Arrhythmias in ICU

18. Hypertensive Emergency

19. Pacing in the ICU Setting

20. Pulmonary Embolism

21. Intensive Care Unit Management of Patients with Right Heart Failure

Section 3: Respiratory Care

22. Community Acquired Pneumonia

23. Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

24. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Section 4: Liver and Digestive System

25. Acute Liver Failure

26. Acute Pancreatitis

27. Hepatorenal and Hepatopulmonary Syndromes

28. Anesthesia for Liver Transplantation

29. Critical Care Aspects in Adult Liver Transplantation

Section 5: Renal Care

30. Diagnosis of Acute Kidney Injury

31. Renal Replacement Therapy

32. Critical Care Management of Renal Transplant Recipients

33. Acid-Base Disorders in Critical Care

34. Disorders of Potassium

35. Sodium Disorders

36. Disorders of Calcium and Magnesium

Section 6: Neurological Care

37. Management of Critically Ill Trauma Patients

38. Management of Spinal Injury

39. Neurocritical Care Management of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

40. Intensive Care Management of Postoperative Neurosurgical Patients

Section 7: Obstetric Critical Care

41. Physiology of Pregnancy

42. Respiratory Disorders During Pregnancy

43. Liver Disease Complicating Pregnancy

44. Peripartum and Postpartum Intensive Care in Pregnancy

Section 8: Pediatric Critical Care

45. Recognition and Assessment of Critically Ill Child

46. Pediatric Septic Shock

47. Status Epilepticus

48. Raised Intracranial Pressure in Children with an Acute Brain Injury: Monitoring and Management

Section 9: Infections

49. Extended Spectrum Beta Lactam Producing Infections in Intensive Care Unit

50. Infections in Immunocompromised Patients in ICU

51. Invasive Fungal Infections in Critically Ill Patients

52. Febrile Neutropenia

53. Fever in the ICU

54. Cytomegalovirus Infection in Critically Ill Patients

55. Tropical Infections in ICU

56. Tropical Fever-Management Guidelines ISCCM Tropical Fever Group

Section 10: Ethics and End-of-Life Care Issues

57. Bioethical Considerations

58. End-of-Life Care Practices in the World

Section 11: Miscellaneous

59. Burns, Inhalation and Electrical Injury

60. Diabetic Ketoacidosis

61. Oncological Emergencies

62. Post-cardiac Arrest Syndrome

63. Intra-abdominal Hypertension and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome

64. Nutrition in a Critically Ill Patients

65. Approach to an Unknown Poisoning

66. Specific Intoxications

67. Fatal Envenomations

68. Care of Obese Patient in ICU

69. Imaging in Intensive Care Unit

Section 12: Mechanical Ventilation

70. Respiratory Mechanics: Basics

71. Principles of Mechanical Ventilation

72. Basic Modes of Ventilation

73. Ventilator Graphics

74. Newer Modes of Ventilation

75. Weaning/Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation

76. Non-Invasive Ventilation

77. Ventilation Strategy in Obstructive Airway Disease

78. Ventilation Strategy in Trauma

79. Rescue Strategies in ARDS-Recruitment Maneuvers

80. Rescue Therapy in ARDS: Prone Ventilation and High Frequency Oscillation

Ventilation (HFOV)

81. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

82. Aerosol Delivery Systems in Mechanical Ventilation

APPENDICES

Appendix 1: Hemodynamic Formulae and Values

Appendix 2: Respiratory Formulae and Values

Appendix 3: Acid-Base Balance, Renal Formulae and Values

Appendix 4: Scoring System Used in ICU

Appendix 5: Spectrum of Commonly Used Antibiotic in ICU

Index