Critical Care Handbook of the Massachussetts General Hospital

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Written by the multidisciplinary intensive care unit staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Fifth Edition of this best-selling handbook is a practical, complete, and current guide to medical and surgical critical care. In a user-friendly outline format designed for rapid reference, this pocket-sized book presents reliable, hospital-tested protocols that reflect today's most advanced critical care practices. This edition includes new chapters on disaster preparedness in the ICU, quality improvement and prophylaxis, non-antibiotic therapies for sepsis, and use of ultrasound in the ICU. An appendix provides supplemental drug information. Table Of Contents GENERAL PRINCIPLES Hemodynamic Monitoring Erik Kistler & Luca Bigatello Respiratory Monitoring Ettore Crimi & Dean Hess Use of Ultrasound in the ICU Robin Guillory & Marc de Moya Airway Management Jonathan Charnin, Robert Goulet & Richard Pino Principles of Mechanical Ventilation Claudia Crimi & Dean Hess Hemodynamic Management Jonathan Fox & Edward Bittner Sedation & Analgesia Houman Amirfarzan, Ulrich Schmidt & Luca Bigatello Fluids, Electrolytes & Acid-Base Management Cosmin Gauran & David Steele Critical Care of the Trauma Patient Jeffrey Ustin & Hasan Alam Critical Care of the Neurologic Patient Kevin Sheth & Lee Schwamm Nutrition Elizabeth Sailhamer & Hasan Alam Infectious Disease: General Considerations Laura Leduc & Judith Hellman Quality Improvement & Prophylaxis Karsten Bartels & Ulrich Schmidt Ethical & Legal Issues in ICU Practice Rae Allain & Sharon Brackett Evidence-Based Practice & Basic Statistics in Critical Care Ala Nozari, H. Thomas Stelfox & Edward Bittner Transport of the ICU Patient Emily Apsell & Michael Fitzsimons SPECIFIC CONSIDERATIONS Coronary Artery Disease Corry 'Jeb' Kucik & Michael Fitzsimons Valvular Heart Disease Jonathan Bloom & Theodore Alston v Cardiac Dysrhythmias Cosmin Gauran & Jagmeet Singh The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Kathrin Allen & Luca Bigatello Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease & Asthma Robert Owens & Fiona Gibbons Pulmonary Embolism & Deep Venous Thrombosis Taylor Thompson Discontinuation of Mechanical Ventilation Bishr Haydar & Jean Kwo Acute Kidney Injury Beverly Newhouse Liver Dysfunction Daniel Johnson & William Benedetto Coagulopathy & Hypercoagulability Lorenzo Berra & Rae Allain Acute Gastrointestinal Diseases Eugene Fukudome & Jean Kwo Endocrine Disorders & Glucose Management Steven Russell & Taylor Thompson Infectious Diseases: Specific Considerations Aranya Bagchi & Judith Hellman Non-Antibiotic Therapies for Sepsis Anahat Dhillon & Edward Bittner Stroke, Seizures & Encephalopathy Dorothea Strozyk & Lee Schwamm Acute Weakness David Greer & Edward George Drug Overdose, Poisoning & Adverse Drug Reactions Susan Wilcox & Richard Pino Adult & Pediatric Resuscitation Arthur Tokarczyk & Richard Pino Transfusion Medicine Jeffrey Ustin & Hasan Alam Neurological Trauma Sherry Chou & Marc de Moya The Burned Patient Nicolas Melo & Rob Sheridan Disaster Preparedness in the ICU Todd Seigel & Edward George ICU Care After Vascular Surgery Ross Blank & Rae Allain ICU Care After Thoracic Surgery Kathrin Allen, Henning Gaissert & Luca Bigatello ICU Care Following Liver, Kidney & Lung Transplantation Jason Wertheim & William Benedetto ICU Care of the Obese Patient Jeremy Goldfarb & Jean Kwo The Intensivist Outside the ICU Edward George & Edward Bittner Obstetric Critical Care Amy Ortman & Richard Pino APPENDIX Supplemental Drug Information