Critical Care Handbook of the Massachussetts General Hospital.

Intro -- Critical Care Handbook of the Massachusetts General Hospital -- PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- CONTENTS -- PART I: GENERAL PRINCIPLES -- Hemodynamic Monitoring -- Respiratory Monitoring -- Use of Ultrasound in the ICU -- Airway Management -- Principles of Mechanical Ventilation -- Hemodynamic Management -- Sedation and Analgesia -- Fluids, Electrolytes, and Acid-Base Management -- Critical Care of the Trauma Patient -- Critical Care of the Neurologic Patient -- Nutrition -- Infectious Disease-General Considerations -- Quality Improvement and Prophylaxis -- Ethical and Legal Issues in ICU Practice -- Evidence-Based Practice and Basic Statistics in Critical Care -- Transport of the ICU Patient -- PART II: SPECIFIC CONSIDERATIONS -- Coronary Artery Disease -- Valvular Heart Disease -- Cardiac Dysrhythmias -- The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome -- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Asthma -- Pulmonary Embolism and Deep Venous Thrombosis -- Discontinuation of Mechanical Ventilation -- Acute Kidney Injury -- Liver Dysfunction -- Coagulopathy and Hypercoagulability -- Acute Gastrointestinal Diseases -- Endocrine Disorders and Glucose Management -- Infectious Diseases-Specific Considerations -- Nonantibiotic Therapies for Sepsis -- Stroke, Seizures, and Encephalopathy -- Acute Weakness -- Drug Overdose, Poisoning, and Adverse Drug Reactions -- Adult and Pediatric Resuscitation -- Transfusion Medicine -- Neurological Trauma -- The Burned Patient -- Disaster Preparedness in the ICU -- ICU Care After Vascular Surgery -- ICU Care After Thoracic Surgery -- ICU Care Following Liver, Kidney, and Lung Transplantation -- ICU Care of the Obese Patient -- The Intensivist Outside the ICU -- Obstetric Critical Care -- Appendix A Supplemental Drug Information -- INDEX.

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