Clinical Intensive Care and Acute Medicine

The essentials of intensive care medicine for residents, trainees and paramedics attached to the ICU.

Ken Hillman (Author), Gillian Bishop (Author)

9780521789806, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 March 2004

704 pages, 66 b/w illus. 128 tables
22.8 x 15.2 x 3.7 cm, 1.262 kg

'Overall, this book has much to commend it, and tackles the complexity of critical care in a rational and logical way. It deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone who is involved with the critically ill, and should be read often.' Doctors.net

This new edition provides an accessible account of the essentials of intensive care medicine. The core of the book focuses on areas common to all critically ill patients including fluid therapy, sedation, shock, infection and other central topics. This key understanding of basic pathophysiological principles provides an excellent launch pad for the section on individual disease entities encompassing haematology, gastroenterology, nephrology, endocrinology, the respiratory system, cardiovascular pathology, poisoning and neurology. Economic and ethical issues are also covered, and the text is supported by numerous problem-oriented guidelines to help the care provider tackle real-life practical problems as encountered in the ICU. In the same spirit, wherever possible, the authors provide precise and meaningful advice, rather than bland generalisations. This new edition reflects the excitement, challenges and uniqueness of intensive care medicine, for the benefit of all residents, trainees, nursing staff and paramedics attached to the ICU.

Preface to first edition
Preface to second edition
1. A systematic approach to caring for the seriously ill
2. Organisation of an Intensive Care Unit
3. Routine care of the seriously ill
4. Fluid therapy and electrolytes
5. Nutrition and metabolism
6. Acid base balance
7. Sedation, analgesia and muscle relaxants
8. Shock and anaphylaxis
9. Multiorgan failure
10. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
11. Body temperature disorders
12. Transport of the seriously ill
13. Infection
14. Trauma
15. Poisoning
16. Acute respiratory failure
17. Interpretation of the portable chest film
18. Specific respiratory problems
19. Ventilatory techniques
20. Cardiorespiratory monitoring
21. Acute cardiovascular failure
22. Specific cardiovascular problems
23. Acute cranial disasters
24. Specific intercranial problems
25. Critical care neurology
26. Acute renal failure
27. Critical care gastroenterology
28. Critical care haematology
29. Critical care endocrinology
30. Obstetrics emergencies
31. Economics, outcome and ethics intensive care
Appendix 1. SI units
Appendix 2. Normal biochemical values
Appendix 3. Normal haematological/clotting values
Appendix 4. Normal urine values
Appendix 5. Normal CSF values
Appendix 6. Respiratory physiology and blood gases
Appendix 7. Cardiorespiratory abbreviations
Appendix 8. Toxicology
Index.

Subject Areas: Intensive care medicine [MMKL]