Main description:

This new, expanded and updated edition of Handbook of ICU Therapy builds on the success of the first edition and continues to provide concise updates on a broad spectrum of issues relating to care of the critically ill patient. As with the first edition, it is equally applicable to anaesthetists, intensivists, operating department practitioners and anaesthetic/theatre/recovery nurses, and the heart of the book focuses on providing practical information in a readable and easily accessible format. All of the authors are directly involved in ICU practice and/or research and are familiar with the most recent developments in this fast-moving area of medicine.

Contents:

Part I. Basic Principles: 1. Cardiac function, monitoring, oxygen transport I. McConachie; 2. Shock I. McConachie; 3. Oxygen therapy D. Kelly; 4. Central venous access T. Owen; 5. Fluid therapy in ICU I. McConachie; 6. Anaemia and blood transfusion I. McConachie; 7. Nutrition S. Wiggans; 8. Non invasive mechanical ventilation D. Kelly; 9. Principles of IPPV I. McConachie; 10. Modes of ventilation and ventilatory strategies P. Nightingale; 11. Weaning and tracheostomy J. Cupitt; 12 Vasoactive drugs V. Godbole; 13. Infection and infection control N. Randall; 14. Sedation, analgesia and neuromuscular blockade N Sharma and R. Morgan; 15. Continuous renal replacement therapy R. Brits; 16. Withholding and withdrawing therapy in the ICU I. McConachie. Part II. Specific Problems: 17. The surgical patient in the ICU I. McConachie; 18. The trauma patient J. Costello; 19. Acute coronary syndromes R. Beynon and D. H. Roberts; 20. Heart failure R. Beynon and D. H. Roberts; 21. Arrhythmias S. Vaughan; 22. The patient with sepsis R. Markham; 23. Acute renal failure in the critically ill R. Kishen; 24. Acute lung injury and ARDS J. Naisbitt and C. Clarke; 25. The patient with gastrointestinal problems V. Godbole; 26. The comatose patient S. Wiggans; 27. The critically ill asthmatic J. Barker and G. Brear; 28. The critically ill diabetic I. McConachie; 29. The cardiac surgical patient in the ICU J. Dunning and C. Harle; 30. Cardiac arrest I. McConachie.