Description
Prepared by attending physicians at Harvard Medical School, Pocket ICU, follows the style of Pocket Medicine, one of the best-selling references for medical students, interns, and residents. This pocket-sized loose-leaf resource can be used on the wards or in the operating room. Information is presented in a schematic, outline format, with diagrams and tables for quick, easy reference. Content coverage is brief but broad, encompassing all the subspecialty areas of critical care including adult and pediatric critical care, neuro-critical care, cardiac critical care, transplant, burn, and neonatal critical care.
Features
--Concise, but broad based coverage of topics
--Includes coverage on all the subspecialty areas of critical care including adult and pediatric critical care, neuro-critical care, cardiac critical care, transplant, burn, and neonatal critical care.
--Includes coverage on all the subspecialty areas of critical care including adult and pediatric critical care, neuro-critical care, cardiac critical care, transplant, burn, and neonatal critical care.
About the Author(s)
- Gyorgy Frendl MD, PhD
- Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain MedicineHarvard Medical SchoolBrigham and Women's HospitalBoston, MA
- Richard D Urman MD
- Assistant ProfessorDepartment of AnesthesiologyHarvard Medical SchoolBrigham and Women's HospitalBoston, MA
Specs
- Product Format: Looseleaf with Binder
- ISBN: 9781451109849
- Trim Size: 4.25 x 7.25
- Pages: 400
- Pub Date: Aug 1, 2012
- Weight: 1.0
Table of contents
Part I: General Principles 1.     1. Common ICU Problems Raghu Seethala 2.    2. Monitoring Sam M. Galvagno and Anquenetta L. Douglas 3.     3. Mechanical Ventilation and Pulmonary Issues Rebecca M. Barron 4.      4. Airway Management Tarun Bhalla, Tensing Maa, and Amod Sawardekar 5.      5. Acute Lung Injury (ALI) and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) John O’Connor and Daniel Talmor 6.     6. Hematology, Fluid and Electrolyte Management Yasser El Kouatli and Lena M. Napolitano 7.      7. Acid-Base Management Mary B. Rice, Kathryn A. Hibbert, and Atul Malhotra 8.      8. Analgesia, Sedation, and Delirium Nathan E. Brummel, Alessandro M. Morandi, and E. Wesley Ely 9.      9. Nutrition Marcus D. Darrabie and Danny O. Jacobs 10. 10. Infectious Disease, Sepsis, and Septic Shock David Oxman, Karim Djekeidel, and Lindsey Baden 11. 11. Endocrine and Renal Issues Ernest I. Mandel and Kenneth B. Christopher 12. 12. Scoring Systems for the Severity of Illness Edward Kelly Part II: Specific Considerations 13. 13. Preventive Strategies and Evidence-Based Practice Shannon S. McKenna 14. 14. Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Samuel M. Galvagno and George Koenig 15. 15. General Trauma I Joaquim Havens 16. 16. General Trauma II Peter J. Fagenholz, George Kasotakis, and George Velmahos 17. 17. Burn Management Emily Keung and Joaquim Havens 18. 18. Head Trauma and Spinal Cord Injury Wenya Linda Bi, William B. Gormley, and Ian F. Dunn 19. 19. Neurological Critical Care Brian Edlow, Terrance Kummer, Pankajavalli Ramakrishnan, Brijesh Mehta, and Allan Ropper 20. 20. Neurovascular Critical Care Karim Awad and David Greer 21. 21. Seizures and Related Disorders Brendon Westover and Mouhsin Shafi 22. 22. Muscle Weakness in the Critical Care Setting Galen V. Henderson 23. 23. Acute Coronary Syndromes and Myocardial Ischemia Neil J. Wimmer and Peter H. Stone 24. 24. Cardiac Surgical Critical Care Candice Tam, Binbin Wang, and Michael Gropper 25. 25. Heart and Lung Transplantation Phillip Camp 26. 26. Liver, Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Sayeed K. Malek, Christian Denecke, and Stefan G. Tullius 27. 27. Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation Edwin Pascal Alyea, III 28. 28. Plastic Surgical Critical Care J. Rodrigo Diaz-Siso and Bohdan Pomahac 29. Thoracic Surgical Critical Care Shannon S. McKenna 30. 30. Vascular Surgical Critical Care Sheri Berg and Rae Allain 31. 31. Neonatal Intensive Care Steven A. Ringer 32. 32. Pediatric Intensive Care Kelly B. Cromer and Traci A. Wolbrink 33. 33. Obstetric Critical Care Dirk Varelmann 34. 34. Obesity: Special Considerations Ali A. El-Solh 35. 35. The Elderly: Special Considerations Alessandro Morandi, Nathan E. Brummel, E. Wesley Ely 36. 36. Toxicology Heikki Nikkanen 37. 37. Disaster Preparedness Geoffrey S.F. Ling Part III: Procedures and Imaging 38. 38. Standardization and Safety Daniel Rubin and Michael O’Connor 39. 39. Common Procedures Jennifer Hofer and Avery Tung 40. 40. Bedside Surgical Procedures Oveys Mansuri, Lashonda Williams, and Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr. 41. 41. Ultrasound-Guided Therapy and Procedures Sajid Shahul and Gyorgy Frendl 42.  42. Radiologic Imaging Yuka Okajima and Hiroto Hatabu Part IV: Additional Topics 43.  43. Nursing Standards in Critical Care Mary Pennington 44. 44. Occupational and Physical Therapy Bhakti Patel and John P. Kress 45. 45. Transitioning from Acute Care to Rehabilitation Shannon S. McKenna 46. 46. Patient- and Family-Centered Care Mary Pennington and Patrice K. Nicholas 47. 47. Ethics and Palliative/End-of-Life Care Michael O’Connor 48. 48. Intra- and Inter-Hospital Transport of Critically Ill Patients Michael G. Fitzsimmons and Chong Nicholls 49. 49. Operating Room: Caring for the Extremely Critically Ill Patient Emily Nelson and Gyorgy Frendl 50. 50. Emergency Department to ICU Communication Strategies Peter C. Hou 51. 51. Genomics in Critical Care Angela Rogers Appendix: ICU Drugs, Calculators, Statistics A1.        Advanced Cardiac Life Support                Samuel M. Galvagno, Jr. and Dragos Galusca A2.        Advanced Trauma Life Support                Samuel M. Galvagno, Jr. and George Koenig A3.        ICU Calculators and Calculation                Sujatha Pentakota A4.        Statistics and Evidence-Based Medicine                Sujatha Pentakota
