Core Topics in Critical Care Medicine (Hardcover)

Foreword; Preface; Part I. Specific Features of Critical Care Medicine: 1. Recognition of critical illness Edwin Mitchell; 2. Advanced airway management Isma Quasim; 3. Patient admission and discharge Santhana Kannan; 4. Transfer of the critically ill Gavin Perkins; 5. Scoring systems and outcome Roger Stedman; 6. Information management in critical care Roger Stedman; 7. Haemodynamics monitoring Anil Kumar and Joyce Yeung; 8. Critical care imaging modalities Frances Aitchison; 9. Vasoactive drugs Mamta Patel; 10. Nutrition Yasser Tolba; 11. Pain control Edwin Mitchell; 12. Sedation Joyce Yeung; 13. Ethics John Bleasdale; 14. Organ donation Angeline Simons and Joyce Yeung; Part II. Systemic Disorders and Management: 15. Sepsis Yasser Tolba and David Thickett; 16. Multiple organ failure Zahid Khan; 17. Immunosuppressed patients Tara Quasim; 18. Principles of antibiotics use Edwin Mitchell; 19. Fluid and electrolyte disorders Prasad Bheemasenachar; 20. Acid?base abnormalities Prasad Bheemasenachar; 21. Post-operative critical care Prasad Bheemasenachar; 22. Post-resuscitation care Gavin Perkins; Part III. Organ Dysfunction and Management: 23. Bleeding and clotting disorders Nick Murphy; 24. Acute coronary syndromes Singh Harjot and Whitehouse Tony; 25. Cardiac arrhythmias Khai Ping Ng and George Pulikal; 26. Acute heart failure Harjot Singh and Tony Whitehouse; 27. Mechanical ventilation Bill Tunnicliffe; 28. Failure of ventilation Darshan Pandit and Joyce Yeung; 29. Failure of oxygenation Darshan Pandit and Joyce Yeung; 30. Respiratory weaning Darshan Pandit; 31. Non-invasive ventilation Thickett David; 32. Unconventional strategies for respiratory support Bill Tunnicliffe; 33. Acute gastrointestinal bleeding and perforation Mamta Patel and Richard Skone; 34. Severe acute pancreatitis Andrew Burtenshaw and Neil Crooks; 35. Poisoning Zahid Khan; 36. Liver failure Nick Murphy and Joyce Yeung; 37. Acute renal failure Andrew Burtenshaw; 38. Renal replacement therapy Andrew Burtenshaw; 39. Status epilepticus Joyce Yeung; 40. Abnormal levels of consciousness Anil Kumar; 41. Meningitis and encephalitis Nick Sherwood; 42. Traumatic brain injury Randeep Mullhi and Sandeep Walia; 43. Trauma and burns Catherine Snelson; 44. Eclampsia and pre-eclampsia John Clift; 45. Obstetric emergencies in the ICU John Clift and Elinor Powell; 46. Paediatric emergencies Nageena Hussain and Joyce Yeung; Part IV. Examinations: 47. Core areas required for UK/European Diploma examinations Zahid Khan; 48. Examples of mock MCQs and viva questions Zahid Khan.