Critical Care Medicine Manual

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Respiratory Crises

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Respiratory Monitoring

      • B. W. Kirk

      Pages 3-14

   3. Management of Acute Hypoxia and Hypercarbia in the Patient with Advanced Obstructive Airway Disease

      • Stephen M. Ayres

      Pages 15-24

   4. Humidification, Nebulization, and Bronchodilator Agents

      • Peter Safar

      Pages 25-34

   5. Acute Respiratory Failure in the Critically Ill: “Shock Lung”

      • Richard W. Carlson, Richard C. Schaeffer, Uri Freund, William French

      Pages 35-42

   6. Mechanical Ventilators: Critical Assessment and Methods of Use

      • B. W. Kirk, W. L. Mackeen

      Pages 43-54

   7. Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation

      • Henning Pontoppidan, Doreen R. G. Browne

      Pages 55-60

   8. Management of Flail Chest

      • B. W. Kirk, J. Ali

      Pages 61-68

   9. Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Fat Emboli

      • Francis Y. K. Lau

      Pages 69-77

3. Shock and Trauma

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Treatment of Shock and Trauma States: Use of Cardiorespiratory Patterns to Define Therapeutic Goals, Predict Survival, and Titrate Therapy

      • William C. Shoemaker

      Pages 81-100

   3. Prognostic Indices as a Basis for Assessing Severity of Shock

      • Herbert Shubin, Max Harry Weil, Lawrence Portigal, Potter Chang

      Pages 101-111

   4. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

      • Robert M. Hardaway III

      Pages 112-120

   5. Principles of Fluid Challenge for Routine Treatment of Shock

      • Max Harry Weil

      Pages 121-128

   6. The Diagnosis and Treatment of Anaphylactic Shock

      • John De Angelis

      Pages 129-136

   7. Indications for Use of Corticosteroid Agents in Treatment of Shock

      • William Schumer

      Pages 137-139

   8. Hemodynamic Defects Underlying Shock with Indications for Treatment: An Appraisal of Vasopressors and Vasodilators

      • Max Harry Weil

      Pages 140-152

4. Neurologic Crises and Opportunistic Infections

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Brain Monitoring and Homeostasis in Comatose, Critically Ill Patients

      • Peter Safar

      Pages 155-179

During the past twelve years, a course on critical care medicine has been sponsored by the Post Graduate Division of the University of Southern California School of Medicine in association with its Center for the Criti­ cally Ill. The content of each of the symposia has paralleled the evolution of critical care medicine as a recognized service specialty. The annual program was planned as a teaching session for physicians and allied medical personnel who sought to advance their involvement in this rapidly advancing field. A panel of highly regarded authorities on sub­ jects bearing on critical care medicine, faculty members of the USC School of Medicine, and staff members of our own Center for the Critically 111 at the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center serve as faculty of these symposia. Although the primary commitment of the organizers to maintain this as a teaching and demonstration session was not abandoned, the number of annual registrants progressively increased from fewer than 100 to more than 1200, gradually outstripping local hotel facilities in central Los Angeles. The symposium for the past two years has been held in the large and at­ tractive Anaheim Convention Center adjacent to Disneyland.

• Infusion
• Notfallmedizin
• Trauma
• care
• complications
• critical care
• embolism
• intensive care medicine
• mechanical ventilation
• pathophysiology
• physiology
• prevention
• shock
• steroids
• surgery

• University of Southern California, Schools of Medicine and Engineering, Los Angeles, USA

  Max Harry Weil

• Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicine da Univ. de Sao Paulo, Brazil

  Protasio L. DaLuz

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