Critical Care Study Guide

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Critical Care Procedures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Airway Management

      • L. Jill Krasner, Neil W. Brister

      Pages 3-22

   3. Oxygenation Without Intubation

      • Wissam Chatila

      Pages 23-31

   4. Blood Gas Sampling

      • Joseph Crocetti, Samuel Krachman

      Pages 32-43

   5. Hemodynamic Monitoring

      • Ubaldo J. Martin, Samuel Krachman

      Pages 44-69

   6. Drainage Tube Management

      • Michael S. Lagnese, John M. Travaline

      Pages 70-80

   7. Implantable Devices for Cardiac Pacing and Defibrillation

      • Henry H. Hsia

      Pages 81-102

   8. Enteral Feeding Tubes

      • David E. Ciccolella

      Pages 103-114

   9. Common Procedures in the Intensive Care Unit: Thoracentesis, Lumbar Puncture, Paracentesis, and Pericardiocentesis

      • Vadim Leyenson

      Pages 115-127

   10. Noninvasive Monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit

       • Francis C. Cordova, Nathaniel Marchetti

       Pages 128-147

   11. Endoscopy in the Intensive Care Unit

       • Gilbert E. D’Alonzo, David Friedel

       Pages 148-158

   12. Radiologic Imaging in the Critically Ill Patient

       • Phillip M. Boiselle

       Pages 159-179

3. Pathophysiologic Disease States Encountered in the Critically Ill Patient

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Neurologic Illness and Critical Care

      • Gilbert E. D’Alonzo, John M. Travaline, Maria Roselyn Lim

      Pages 183-199

   3. Respiratory Failure

      • Gerard J. Criner

      Pages 200-221

   4. Heart Failure

      • Paul Mather, Gilbert E. D’Alonzo

      Pages 222-240

   5. Cardiac Arrhythmias

      • Robert Sangrigoli, Henry H. Hsia

      Pages 241-266

   6. Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage

      • Gilbert E. D’Alonzo, David Friedel

      Pages 267-278

   7. Hepatic Failure

      • Wissam Chatila

      Pages 279-285

Critical care medicine is a dynamic and exciting arena where complex pathophysiologic states requiring extensive knowledge and clinical acumen are commonly found. Caring for critically ill patients requires an extensive knowledge of basic pathophysiology, as well as awareness of the appropriate diagnostic tests and therapeutic interventions. Because this knowledge base crosses many different disciplines, introduction to caring for the intensive care patient, while exciting, may also be intimidating. This textbook is designed toward making the dynamic environment of the critical care unit understandable and the approach to the patient both logical and successful. The book contains three components: (1) description of the procedural tasks commonly performed for the critically ill patient, (2) explanation of the most common pathophysiologic states en­ countered, and (3) description of specific disease entities with details of their differential di­ agnosis, diagnostic strategy, and therapeutic plan. This book also uses several educational approaches that we have found useful in our own teaching sessions and prior textbooks. Clinical cases introduce chapters and highlight chap­ ter segments to emphasize clinical relevancy. As an additional study aid, margin notes high­ light important teaching points and facilitate easy review of chapter content. To consolidate the principles outlined in each chapter, review questions with full text explanations are pro­ vided at the end of each chapter. All these elements help reinforce the most important mes­ sages for the reader.

• Defibrillation
• Sepsis
• Trauma
• care
• critical care
• ethics
• intensive care
• intensive care medicine
• internal medicine
• mechanical ventilation
• meningitis
• shock
• surgery

• Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA

  Gerard J. Criner, Gilbert E. D’Alonzo

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