INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- SECTION I PROCEDURES, TECHNIQUES, AND MINIMALLY INVASIVE MONITORING -- AIRWAY MANAGEMENT AND ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION -- CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERS -- ARTERIAL LINE PLACEMENT AND CARE -- PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETERS -- TEMPORARY CARDIAC PACING -- CARDIOVERSION AND DEFIBRILLATION -- PERICARDIOCENTESIS -- CHEST TUBE INSERTION AND CARE -- BRONCHOSCOPY -- THORACENTESIS -- ARTERIAL PUNCTURE FOR BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS -- TRACHEOSTOMY -- GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY -- PARACENTESIS AND DIAGNOSTIC PERITONEAL LAVAGE -- GASTROESOPHAGEAL BALLOON TAMPONADE FOR ACUTE VARICEAL HEMORRHAGE -- ENDOSCOPIC PLACEMENT OF FEEDING TUBES -- CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ASPIRATION -- PERCUTANEOUS SUPRAPUBIC CYSTOSTOMY -- ASPIRATION OF THE KNEE AND SYNOVIAL FLUID ANALYSIS -- ANESTHESIA FOR BEDSIDE PROCEDURES -- INTERVENTIONAL ULTRASOUND -- INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY: PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE TECHNIQUES -- CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION -- MANAGEMENT OF PAIN IN THE CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT -- THERAPEUTIC PARALYSIS -- SECTION II MINIMALLY INVASIVE MONITORING -- ROUTINE MONITORING OF CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS -- MINIMALLY INVASIVE HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING -- NEUROLOGIC MULTIMODAL MONITORING -- ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- MONITORING GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION -- RESPIRATORY MONITORING DURING MECHANICAL VENTILATION -- SECTION III CARDIOVASCULAR PROBLEMS AND CORONARY CARE -- APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH HYPOTENSION AND HEMODYNAMIC INSTABILITY -- MANAGEMENT OF ADVANCED HEART FAILURE -- VALVULAR HEART DISEASE -- CRITICAL CARE OF PERICARDIAL DISEASE -- ACUTE AORTIC SYNDROMES -- EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF HYPERTENSION IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- UNSTABLE ANGINA/ NON-ST-SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION -- ST-SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION.

MECHANICAL COMPLICATIONS OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION -- VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA -- SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIAS: RECOGNITION AND MANAGEMENT IN THE INTENSIVE CARE SETTING -- BRADYARRHYTHMIAS AND TEMPORARY PACING -- HOW TO MANAGE CARDIAC PACEMAKERS AND IMPLANTABLE DEFIBRILLATORS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- MECHANICAL SUPPORT FOR HEART FAILURE -- SECTION IV PULMONARY PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- RESPIRATORY FAILURE PART I: A PHYSIOLOGIC APPROACH TO RESPIRATORY FAILURE -- RESPIRATORY FAILURE PART II: ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME -- RESPIRATORY FAILURE PART III: ASTHMA -- RESPIRATORY FAILURE PART IV: CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE -- RESPIRATORY FAILURE PART V: EXTRAPULMONARY CAUSES OF RESPIRATORY FAILURE -- RESPIRATORY FAILURE PART VI: ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE IN PREGNANCY -- VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM: PULMONARY EMBOLISM AND DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS -- MANAGING HEMOPTYSIS -- ASPIRATION -- DROWNING -- PULMONARY HYPERTENSION IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- PLEURAL DISEASE IN THE CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT -- MECHANICAL VENTILATION PART I: INVASIVE -- MECHANICAL VENTILATION PART II: NON-INVASIVE MECHANICAL VENTILATION FOR THE ADULT HOSPITALIZED PATIENT -- MECHANICAL VENTILATION PART III: DISCONTINUATION -- GAS EMBOLISM SYNDROMES: VENOUS GAS EMBOLI, ARTERIAL GAS EMBOLI, AND DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS -- RESPIRATORY ADJUNCT THERAPY -- CHEST RADIOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION -- ACUTE INHALATION INJURY -- DISORDERS OF TEMPERATURE CONTROL PART I: HYPOTHERMIA -- DISORDERS OF TEMPERATURE CONTROL PART II: HYPERTHERMIA -- SEVERE UPPER AIRWAY INFECTIONS -- ACUTE INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA -- LUNG BIOPSY -- SLEEP ISSUES IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT SETTING -- SECTION V RENAL PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- CHAPTER 71 ¦ METABOLIC ACIDOSIS AND METABOLIC ALKALOSIS -- CHAPTER 72 ¦ DISORDERS OF PLASMA SODIUM AND PLASMA POTASSIUM.

CHAPTER 73 ¦ ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- CHAPTER 74 ¦ DRUG DOSING IN RENAL AND HEPATIC FAILURE: A PHARMACOKINETIC APPROACH TO THE CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT -- CHAPTER 75 ¦ RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- SECTION VI INFECTIOUS DISEASE PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- APPROACH TO FEVER IN THE ICU PATIENT -- USE OF ANTIMICROBIALS IN THE TREATMENT OF INFECTION IN THE CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT -- PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF HEALTHCARE-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS -- INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS AND INFECTIONS OF INTRACARDIAC PROSTHETIC DEVICES -- INFECTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH VASCULAR CATHETERS -- URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS -- LIFE-THREATENING COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS: TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME, OVERWHELMING POSTSPLENECTOMY INFECTION, MENINGOCOCCEMIA, MALARIA, ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER, AND OTHERS -- ACUTE INFECTION IN THE IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST -- INTENSIVE CARE OF PATIENTS WITH HIV INFECTION -- INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS OF DRUG ABUSE -- TUBERCULOSIS -- BOTULISM -- TETANUS -- SERIOUS EPIDEMIC VIRAL PNEUMONIAS -- SECTION VII GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- UPPER AND LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING -- STRESS ULCER SYNDROME -- GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY IN THE CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT -- FULMINANT COLITIS AND TOXIC MEGACOLON -- EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF LIVER FAILURE -- DIARRHEA -- SEVERE AND COMPLICATED BILIARY TRACT DISEASE -- HEPATIC DYSFUNCTION -- ACUTE PANCREATITIS -- SECTION VIII ENDOCRINE PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- MANAGEMENT OF HYPERGLYCEMIA IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS -- HYPERGLYCEMIC DIABETIC COMA -- SEVERE HYPERTHYROIDISM -- MYXEDEMA COMA -- HYPOADRENAL CRISIS AND THE STRESS MANAGEMENT OF THE PATIENT ON CHRONIC STEROID THERAPY -- DISORDERS OF MINERAL METABOLISM -- HYPOGLYCEMIA.

NONTHYROIDAL ILLNESS SYNDROME (SICK EUTHYROID SYNDROME) IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- SECTION IX HEMATOLOGIC AND ONCOLOGIC PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- DISORDERS OF HEMOSTASIS IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS -- THROMBOCYTOPENIA -- ANTITHROMBOTIC PHARMACOTHERAPY -- DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF PROTHROMBOTIC DISORDERS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- ANEMIA IN THE CRITICAL CARE SETTING -- THERAPEUTIC APHERESIS: TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND INDICATIONS IN CRITICAL CARE -- TRANSFUSION THERAPY: BLOOD COMPONENTS AND TRANSFUSION COMPLICATIONS -- CRITICAL CARE OF PATIENTS WITH HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES -- SECTION X PHARMACOLOGY, OVERDOSES, AND POISONINGS -- GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE EVALUATION AND TREATMENT OF POISONING -- ACETAMINOPHEN POISONING -- ALCOHOLS AND GLYCOL POISONING -- ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENTS -- ANTICHOLINERGIC POISONING -- ANTICONVULSANT POISONING -- ANTIDEPRESSANT POISONING -- ANTIPSYCHOTIC POISONING -- BETA-BLOCKER POISONING -- CALCIUM CHANNEL ANTAGONIST POISONING -- CARDIAC GLYCOSIDE POISONING -- CHOLINERGIC POISONING -- COCAINE POISONING -- CORROSIVE POISONING -- SALICYLATE AND OTHER NONSTEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUG POISONING -- ENVENOMATIONS -- HEAVY METAL POISONING -- HYDROCARBON POISONING -- HYDROFLUORIC ACID POISONING -- IRON POISONING -- ISONIAZID POISONING -- LITHIUM POISONING -- METHYLXANTHINE POISONING -- OPIOID POISONING -- PESTICIDE POISONING -- PHENCYCLIDINE AND HALLUCINOGEN POISONING -- SEDATIVE-HYPNOTIC AGENT POISONING -- AMPHETAMINES -- WITHDRAWAL SYNDROMES -- SECTION XI SURGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- EPISTAXIS -- ESOPHAGEAL PERFORATION AND ACUTE MEDIASTINITIS -- MANAGEMENT OF THE POSTOPERATIVE CARDIAC SURGICAL PATIENT -- NONCARDIAC SURGERY IN THE CARDIAC PATIENT -- DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF INTRA-ABDOMINAL SEPSIS -- MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA -- COMPARTMENT SYNDROME OF THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY.

NECROTIZING SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS -- ACUTE LIMB ISCHEMIA: ETIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT STRATEGIES -- RESSURE SORES: PREVENTION AND TREATMENT -- MANAGEMENT OF THE OBSTETRICAL PATIENT IN THE INTENSIVE CARE SETTING -- SECTION XII SHOCK AND TRAUMA -- SHOCK: AN OVERVIEW -- RESUSCITATION FROM SHOCK FOLLOWING INJURY -- THE MANAGEMENT OF SEPSIS -- MULTIPLE ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SYNDROME -- TRAUMA SYSTEMS -- TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY -- SPINAL CORD TRAUMA -- THORACIC AND CARDIAC TRAUMA -- CRITICAL CARE OF THE PATIENT WITH ABDOMINAL TRAUMA -- BURN MANAGEMENT -- ORTHOPEDIC INJURY -- SECTION XIII NEUROLOGIC PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- AN APPROACH TO NEUROLOGIC PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- EVALUATING THE PATIENT WITH ALTERED CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- METABOLIC ENCEPHALOPATHY -- GENERALIZED ANOXIA/ ISCHEMIA OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM -- STATUS EPILEPTICUS -- CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE -- NEURO-ONCOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME -- MYASTHENIA GRAVIS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- MISCELLANEOUS NEUROLOGIC PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE -- MENTAL STATUS DYSFUNCTION IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT: POSTOPERATIVE COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT -- NEWLY ACQUIRED WEAKNESS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT: CRITICAL ILLNESS MYOPATHY AND NEUROPATHY -- SECTION XIV TRANSPLANTATION -- IMMUNOSUPPRESSION IN SOLID-ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION -- CRITICAL CARE PROBLEMS IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS -- SPECIFIC CRITICAL CARE PROBLEMS IN HEART AND HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS -- CARE OF THE PANCREAS TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT -- MANAGEMENT OF THE ORGAN DONOR -- DIAGNOSISANDMANAGEMENT OF REJECTION, INFECTION, AND MALIGNANCY IN TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS -- CRITICAL CARE OF THE LIVER AND INTESTINAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS -- HEMATOPOIETIC CELL TRANSPLANTATION -- CRITICAL CARE OF THE LUNG TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT.

SECTION XV METABOLISM/NUTRITION.