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Principles of Critical Care, 3e

Jesse B. Hall, Gregory A. Schmidt, Lawrence D.H. Wood

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Introduction

Chapter 1	An Approach to Critical Care
Chapter 2	Assessing Cost Effectiveness in the Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 3	Improving the Quality of Care in the Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 4	Infection Control and Surveillance in the Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 5	Legal Issues in Critical Care
Chapter 6	Assessment of Severity of Illness
Chapter 7	Transportation of the Critically Ill Patient
Chapter 8	Telemedicine
Chapter 9	Preparedness for Catastrophe

Chapter 10	Preventing Morbidity in the ICU
Chapter 11	Nutrition in the Critically Ill
Chapter 12	Intravascular Devices
Chapter 13	Clinical Use of the Pulmonary Artery Catheter
Chapter 14	Pain Control, Sedation, and Use of Muscle Relaxants
Chapter 15	Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Chapter 16	Therapeutic Hypothermia
Chapter 17	Withholding or Withdrawing of Life-Sustaining Therapy and Administering of Palliative Care
Chapter 18	Chronic Critical Illness
Chapter 19	Long-Term Outcomes of Critical Illness

Chapter 20	The Pathophysiology of the Circulation in Critical Illness
Chapter 21	Shock
Chapter 22	Ventricular Dysfunction in Critical Illness
Chapter 23	Diagnostic and Management Strategies for Acute Heart Failure in the Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 24	Cardiac Arrhythmias, Pacing, Cardioversion, and Defibrillation in the Critical Care Setting
Chapter 25	Myocardial Ischemia
Chapter 26	Acute Right Heart Syndromes
Chapter 27	Pulmonary Embolic Disorders: Thrombus, Air, and Fat
Chapter 28	Pericardial Disease
Chapter 29	Valvular Heart Disease
Chapter 30	Aortic Dissection

Chapter 31	The Pathophysiology and Differential Diagnosis of Acute Respiratory Failure
Chapter 32	Ventilator Waveforms: Clinical Interpretation
Chapter 33	Noninvasive Ventilation
Chapter 34	Upper Airway Obstruction
Chapter 35	Airway Management
Chapter 36	Management of the Ventilated Patient
Chapter 37	Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury
Chapter 38	Acute Lung Injury and the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Chapter 39	Acute-on-Chronic Respiratory Failure
Chapter 40	Status Asthmaticus
Chapter 41	Massive Hemoptysis
Chapter 42	Restrictive Disease of the Respiratory System and the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
Chapter 43	Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Chapter 44	Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation

Chapter 45	Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy and the Clinical Pharmacology of Antimicrobial Drugs
Chapter 46	Sepsis with Acute Organ Dysfunction
Chapter 47	Approach to Infection in Patients Receiving Cytotoxic Chemotherapy for Malignancy
Chapter 48	AIDS in the Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 49	Endocarditis and Other Intravascular Infections
Chapter 50	Infectious Complications of Intravascular Access Devices
Chapter 51	Pneumonia
Chapter 52	Bacterial Infections of the Central Nervous System
Chapter 53	Encephalomyelitis
Chapter 54	Life-Threatening Infections of the Head, Neck, and Upper Respiratory Tract
Chapter 55	Soft Tissue Infections
Chapter 56	Urinary Tract Infections
Chapter 57	Gastrointestinal Infections
Chapter 58	Severe Malaria
Chapter 59	Tetanus
Chapter 60	Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
Chapter 61	Biowarfare Agents

Chapter 62	Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 63	Cerebrovascular Disease
Chapter 64	Seizures in the Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 65	Intracranial Pressure: Monitoring and Management
Chapter 66	Neuromuscular Diseases Leading to Respiratory Failure
Chapter 67	Coma, Persistent Vegetative State, and Brain Death

Chapter 68	Anemia and Blood Transfusion
Chapter 69	Bleeding Disorders
Chapter 70	Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Hemolytic Uremia Syndromes, and the Approach to Thrombotic Microangiopathies
Chapter 71	Acute Leukemia
Chapter 72	Oncologic Emergencies
Chapter 73	Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Graft-versus-Host Disease
Chapter 74	Toxicities of Chemotherapy

Chapter 75	Acute Renal Failure
Chapter 76	Electrolyte Disorders in Critical Care
Chapter 77	Acid-Base Balance
Chapter 78	Diabetic Ketoacidosis, Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Nonketotic Coma, and Hypoglycemia
Chapter 79	Adrenocortical Insufficiency
Chapter 80	Thyroid Disease

Chapter 81	Gut and Hepatobiliary Dysfunction
Chapter 82	Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
Chapter 83	Fulminant Hepatic Failure
Chapter 84	Management of the Patient with Cirrhosis
Chapter 85	Acute Pancreatitis in the Critically Ill
Chapter 86	Mesenteric Ischemia

Chapter 87	Special Considerations in the Surgical Patient
Chapter 88	Preoperative Assessment of the High-Risk Surgical Patient
Chapter 89	The Acute Abdomen and Intra-Abdominal Sepsis
Chapter 90	The Transplant Patient
Chapter 91	Care of the Multiorgan Donor
Chapter 92	Priorities in Multisystem Trauma
Chapter 93	Head Injury and Intracranial Hypertension
Chapter 94	Spine Injuries
Chapter 95	Torso Trauma
Chapter 96	Pelvic Ring Injuries and Extremity Trauma
Chapter 97	Electrical Trauma
Chapter 98	Burns: Resuscitation Phase (0 to 36 Hours)
Chapter 99	Burns: Postresuscitation Phase (Days 2 to 6)
Chapter 100	Burns: Inflammation-Infection Phase (Day 7 to Wound Closure)
Chapter 101	Interventional Radiology

Chapter 102	Toxicology in Adults
Chapter 103	Critical Care Pharmacology
Chapter 104	Rheumatology in the ICU
Chapter 105	Critical Illness in Pregnancy
Chapter 106	Anaphylactic and Anaphylactoid Reactions
Chapter 107	Dermatologic Conditions
Chapter 108	Sickle Cell Disease
Chapter 109	The Obesity Epidemic and Critical Care
Chapter 110	Hypothermia
Chapter 111	Hyperthermia
Chapter 112	Diving Medicine and Near Drowning

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