Controversies in Critical Care (Paperback, 2023)

Part 1: Respiratory Support in the Critically Ill.- Oxygenation Targets in the ICU: Conservative or Liberal?.- The Hypoxic Drive, Supplemental Oxygen, and Hypercapnia.- Non-invasive Respiratory Support in Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure.- PEEP Titration by the Bedside: How Do we Set it Right?.- Do Vigorous Spontaneous Respiratory Efforts Lead to Patient Self-inflicted Lung Injury (P-SILI)?.- Prone Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- Neuromuscular Blocking Agents in Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Benefit or Harm?.- Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Newer Definitions, Controversies, and Perspectives.- Lung-protective Ventilation and Hypercapnia: How Much is Permissible?.- Tracheostomy in the ICU: Early or Late?.- Diaphragmatic Dysfunction in Critical Illness.- Weaning and Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation: Is my Patient Ready?.- When to Decannulate a Tracheostomy?.- Thrombolytic Therapy in Acute Pulmonary Embolism.- Part 2: Shock and Circulatory Support.- Corticosteroids in Sepsis: The Enduring Debate.- Hyperlactatemia in Critical Illness: Time for Reappraisal?.- Permissive Hypotension in Severe Trauma.- Assessment of Volume Responsiveness in the Critically Ill.- The Strategy of "De-resuscitation" in the Critically Ill.- Where Do We Stand with Early Goal-Directed Therapy in Sepsis?.- Normal Saline Versus Balanced Crystalloids Revisited.- Liberal Fluid Resuscitation vs. Early Vasopressors in Septic Shock.- Epinephrine and Outcomes Following Cardiac Arrest.- Targeted Temperature Management in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.- Part 3: Acute Kidney Injury and Renal Replacement Therapy.- Augmented Renal Clearance in the Critically Ill.- Renal Replacement Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury: Is Timing all-Important?.- Optimizing the Dose of Renal Replacement Therapy.- Renal Replacement Therapy in The Critically Ill: Continuous vs. Prolonged Intermittent Therapies.- Part 4: Neurocritical Care.- Does Intracranial Pressure Monitoring Help in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury?.- Therapeutic Hypothermia in Traumatic Brain Injury.- Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury.- Optimzation of Osmotherapy in Cerebral Edema.- How Much Sedation in Critically Ill Patients on Mechanical Ventilation?.- Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit: Are we Paying Enough Attention?.- Clearing the Cervical Spine in Trauma Patients.- Part 5: Metabolic Support in Critical Illness.- Glycemic Control in the Critically Ill.- Vitamin C in Sepsis: End of the Debate?.- Part 6: The Gut and Nutrition.- Early or Supplemental Parenteral Nutrition vs. Enteral Nutrition Alone in The Critically Ill.- Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis in the ICU.- Do Tradition-Borne Fasting Practices Apply to ICU Patients with a Protected Airway?.- Part 7: Infections and Antibiotic Therapy.- Multidrug-resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria in the ICU: Do we Have Answers?.- Empirical Antibiotic Therapy: De-escalation Demystified.- Is it the End of the Road for Inhaled Antibiotic Therapy in Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia?.- Duration of Antibiotic Therapy in the Critically Ill.- Selective Digestive Decontamination: Helpful or Harmful?.- Part 8: Organizational Challenges in the ICU.- Which Organizational Structure to Pursue? The Open vs. Closed ICU Debate.- Adverse Events in the ICU: Building and Sustaining an Organizational Culture of Patient Safety.- How Effective are Rapid Response Systems?.- Part 9: Coagulopathy and Transfusion.- Transfusion Thresholds in Non-Bleeding Critically Ill Patients.- Tranexamic Acid in the Bleeding Patient.- Dengue-Related Thrombocytopenia and Platelet Transfusion.- Part 10: Burns.- Thermal Injury Resuscitation.