Mount Sinai Expert Guides : Critical Care.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- About the Companion Website -- Part 1 Basic Techniques and Procedures -- CHAPTER 1 Airway Management -- Functional anatomy of the upper airway -- Airway assessment -- Equipment -- Positioning -- Preoxygenation -- Bag and mask ventilation -- Laryngoscopy and confirmation of placement -- Difficult airway -- Extubation -- Complications of intubation -- Reading list -- Images -- CHAPTER 2 Sedation and Analgesia -- Clinical pharmacology -- Monitoring -- Medications for sedation and analgesia -- Reading list -- CHAPTER 3 Vascular Access -- Central venous access -- Arterial access -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Images -- CHAPTER 4 Bedside Ultrasound -- Indications -- Basic concepts -- Procedure -- Management/treatment algorithm -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Images -- CHAPTER 5 Bronchoscopy -- Introduction -- The bronchoscope -- Indications -- Pre-procedure -- Bronchoscopy procedure -- Common complications -- Follow-up -- Reading list -- Images -- CHAPTER 6 Bedside Percutaneous Dilational Tracheostomy -- Background -- Tracheostomy benefits (Table 6.1) -- Risk factors -- Selection of candidates for bedside PDT -- PDT procedure -- Follow-up -- Reading list -- Images -- CHAPTER 7 Nutritional Support and Total Parenteral Nutrition -- Background -- Goals of nutrition in the critically ill -- Enteral nutrition -- Total parenteral nutrition -- Reading list -- CHAPTER 8 Glycemic Control -- Background -- Pathogenesis -- Risk factors for hyperglycemia -- Prevention of hyperglycemia -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Guidelines -- Images -- CHAPTER 9 Prevention of Complications -- Neurologic complications -- Cardiovascular complications -- Hematologic complications.

Gastrointestinal complications -- Renal complications -- Procedure-related complications -- Infection control in ICU -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- CHAPTER 10 Palliative Care -- Background -- Understanding palliative care -- Benefits -- Recommended model of palliative care in the ICU -- Devices and withdrawal of artificial life support -- Reading list -- Part 2 Cardiovascular Critical Care -- CHAPTER 11 Hemodynamic Monitoring -- Arterial lines -- Advanced arterial hemodynamic monitoring -- Central lines -- Pulmonary artery catheter monitoring -- Echocardiography -- Reading list -- Images -- CHAPTER 12 Vasoactive Drugs -- Physiology -- Basic properties -- Indications -- Types of shock -- Selecting vasoactive therapy -- Vasoactive medications in focus -- Reading list -- CHAPTER 13 Mechanical Circulatory Support -- Overview of devices and indications -- Short-term mechanical circulatory support devices -- Intermediate-term mechanical circulatory support devices -- Durable (long-term) mechanical circulatory support devices -- Reading list -- Images -- CHAPTER 14 Acute Hypertensive and Aortic Syndromes -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Special populations -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Guidelines -- Evidence -- Images -- CHAPTER 15 Cardiac Arrhythmias -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Guidelines -- Evidence -- Images -- CHAPTER 16 Acute Coronary Syndromes -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Special populations -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Guidelines -- Evidence -- CHAPTER 17 Heart Failure Management -- Background -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Guidelines -- Evidence -- Image -- CHAPTER 18 Shock Syndromes -- Background -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Special populations.

Prognosis -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Guidelines -- Image -- CHAPTER 19 Cardiac Arrest -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Advanced cardiac life support -- Cardiocerebral resuscitation -- Special populations -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Guidelines -- Part 3 Pulmonary Critical Care -- CHAPTER 20 Respiratory Monitoring -- Importance of respiratory monitoring -- Physical examination -- Impedance monitors -- Monitoring of oxygenation: pulse oximetry -- Monitoring of ventilation: capnography -- Arterial blood gases -- Lung mechanics on mechanical ventilation -- Monitoring respiratory muscle strength -- Imaging in respiratory monitoring -- Reading list -- Images -- CHAPTER 21 Mechanical Ventilatory Support -- Background -- Indications for invasive mechanical ventilation -- Commonly used terms -- Setting the ventilator -- Ventilator phases -- Modes of mechanical ventilation -- Troubleshooting the ventilator -- Disease-oriented settings -- Cardiovascular effects of mechanical ventilation (heart-lung interactions) -- Complications and prevention -- Reading list -- CHAPTER 22 Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation -- Background -- Principles of action -- Indications and contraindications -- Basic terminology and settings -- Use of NPPV in disease states -- Predictors of success and failure of NPPV -- Guidelines for use -- Managing the patient on NPPV -- Reading list -- Evidence -- Images -- CHAPTER 23 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome -- Background -- Pathology/pathogenesis -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Special populations -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Guidelines -- Evidence -- Images -- CHAPTER 24 Bronchospasm and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Special populations -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Guidelines -- Images.

CHAPTER 25 Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation -- Background -- Assessment of readiness to wean -- Maintaining homeostasis of the other systems -- Assessment of readiness for extubation -- Weaning protocols -- Extubation -- Managing the difficult to wean patient -- Reading list -- Images -- Part 4 Neurologic Critical Care -- CHAPTER 26 Delirium -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Treatment and management -- Specific populations -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Guidelines -- Evidence -- CHAPTER 27 Stroke -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Special populations -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Guidelines -- Evidence -- Images -- CHAPTER 28 Neurotrauma -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Special populations -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Guidelines -- Evidence -- CHAPTER 29 Status Epilepticus -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Special populations -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Guidelines -- Evidence -- CHAPTER 30 Intracranial Pressure and Neuromonitoring -- Intracranial pressure monitoring -- Multimodality neuromonitoring -- Continuous electroencephalogram monitoring -- Reading list -- Images -- CHAPTER 31 Coma and Brain Death -- Background -- Diagnosis -- Management of potential organ donors -- Special populations -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Guidelines -- CHAPTER 32 Toxicology and Drug Reactions -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Guidelines -- Part 5 Surgical Critical Care -- CHAPTER 33 Gastrointestinal Bleeding -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Special populations -- Reading list -- Guidelines -- Evidence -- CHAPTER 34 Acute Abdomen and Abdominal Sepsis -- Background -- Prevention.

Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Special populations -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Guidelines -- CHAPTER 35 Abdominal Compartment Syndrome -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Reading list -- Guidelines -- CHAPTER 36 Acute Mesenteric Ischemia -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Guidelines -- Evidence -- Image -- CHAPTER 37 Surgical Trauma -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Special populations -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Evidence -- CHAPTER 38 Burns -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Special populations -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Guidelines (H1) -- Evidence -- Images -- CHAPTER 39 Acute Hepatic Failure -- Background -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Guidelines -- Image -- CHAPTER 40 Abdominal Organ Transplantation -- Liver transplantation -- Kidney transplantation -- Pancreas transplantation -- Small bowel and multivisceral transplantation -- Reading list -- Images -- CHAPTER 41 Obstetric Emergencies -- Overview -- Critical care fundamentals of pregnancy -- Maternal cardiac arrest -- Post-partum hemorrhage -- Peri-partum cardiomyopathy -- Pulmonary embolic disease -- Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia -- Reading list -- Guidelines -- Part 6 Infectious Diseases -- CHAPTER 42 The Febrile Patient -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Guidelines -- CHAPTER 43 Sepsis -- Background -- Prevention -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Special populations -- Prognosis -- Reading list -- Suggested websites -- Guidelines -- Evidence -- CHAPTER 44 Infections Acquired in the Intensive Care Unit -- General treatment rationale -- General prevention -- Central line-associated bloodstream infections.

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