Pocket ICU / editors, Gyorgy Frendl, Richard D. Urman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frendl, Gyorgy, editor.

Urman, Richard D., editor.

Series:

Pocket notebook.

Pocket notebook

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical Care--methods.

Intensive Care Units.

Critical care medicine--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Critical care medicine.

Medical Subjects:

Critical Care--methods.

Intensive Care Units.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, [2017]

Summary:

"Critical (intensive) care was born and remains a multi-disciplinary specialty. This is obvious in two facets of critical care: (a) it integrates knowledge and practices from many medical specialties (trauma, transplant medicine, cardiology, pulmonary medicine, anesthesiology and pain medicine, and many others); and (b) it requires the close collaboration of medical professionals from many specialties (physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, respiratory therapists, nutritionists, pharmacists, etc.). To achieve this, critical care professionals must be masters of communication, team building, management, and possess the most up-to-date clinical knowledge"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Common ICU problems

Monitoring

Airway management

ACID-base disturbances

Pain, agitation, and delirium in the ICU

Nutrition

Scoring system for the severity of illness in critical care

Preventive strategies and evidence-based practice

Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS)

Emergency department to ICU communication strategies

Informed consent, procedural standardization, and safety

Occupational and physical therapy

Patient and family centered care

Transitioning from acute care to rehabilitation

Ethics, palliative and end of life care

Nursing standards in critical care

Inter and intrahospital transport of critically ill patients

Mechanical ventilation and pulmonary issues

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

Cardiovascular conditions in the ICU

acute coronary syndromes and other common cardiac problems

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and ventricular assist devices

Hematology, fluid and electrolyte management

Infectious disease, sepsis, and the surviving sepsis guidelines 2015

Endocrine disorders and renal issues in the ICU and renal issues

Cardiac surgical critical care

Thoracic surgical critical care

Vascular surgical critical care

Neurologic critical care

Neurovascular critical care

Seizures

Weakness in the intensive care unit

Neonatal intensive care

Pediatric intensive care

Obstetric critical care

Older adults with critical illness: special considerations

Obesity: special considerations

Operating room: caring for the extremely critically ill patient

Heart and lung transplantation

Liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation

Bone marrow and stem cell transplantation

General trauma I

General trauma II

Head trauma and spinal cord injury

Burn management

Common ICU procedures

Bedside surgical procedures in The ICU or ed

Ultrasound-guided therapy and procedures

Radiologic imaging

Toxicology

Disaster preparedness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4963-5819-8