Critical Care: Physiology And Management (Lange Quick Glance)

Description:
This concise, pocket sized guide to Critical Care medicine provides at-a-glance information for treating patients effectively and expediently. It includes a free PDA download to facilitate its usefulness at the point of care.

Table of Contents:
Section 1; Chapter 1 Ventricular Function and the Cardiac Output; Key equations; Factors that control the CO; Pressure & Volume relationships; Starling Curve; Cardiac Curve; DDx of LV dysfunction; Chapter 2 Shock; Definition; Types of shock; Response of organ systems in shock; Bedside exam; Tx; Chapter 3 Oxygenation and Ventilation; Key Equations; Oxygenation; Ventilation; Chapter 4 Mechanical Ventilation; Goals of Mechanical Ventilation; Basic Lung Volumes; Indications for Incubation; Closing Volume and Functional Residual Capacity; PaO2 and Mean Airway Pressure; Peak Inspiratory and Plateau Pressures; Positive End Expiratory Pressure; Auto PEEP; Models of Positive Pressure Ventilation; Relationship of Air Flow and Pressure Curves; Chapter 5 Pulmonary Artery (Swan Ganz) Catheters; Key Equations; Normal Pressures The Waveforms; Thermodilution Technique for Measuring CO; Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure; Clinical Application of the PA Catheter; Chapter 6 Frequently Used Medications, Blood Products, and Fluids; Receptors and Mechanism of Action; Pressors; Anti-hypertensives; Analgesics and Sedatives; Paralytics; Blood Products; Intravenous Fluids; Chapter 7 The Head Injured Patient: Management of Elevated Intracranial Pressure (ICP); Key Equation; Diagnosing Elevated ICP; Common Systemic Alterations; Tx Algorithm; Chapter 8 Acid-Base Disorders; Key Equations; Interpreting the Arterial Blood Gas; Review of the Nephron; Metabolic Acidosis; Metabolic Alkalosis; Metabolic Acidosis; Respiratory Alkalosis; Chapter 9 Nutrition; Enteral Nutrition; Parenteral Nutrition; Assessing Nutrition; Chapter 10 Prophylaxis; DVT Prophylaxis; Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis; Section 2; Chapter 11 Acute Myocardial Infarction; Definition; Pathophysiology; Symptoms and Signs; Dx; Management; Chapter 12 Congestive Heart Failure; Definition; Pathophysiology; Symptoms and Signs; Dx; Management; Chapter 13 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD); Exacerbation; Definition; Pathophysiology; Symptoms and Signs; Dx; Management; Chapter 14 Community & Hospital Acquired Pneumonia; Chapter 15 Acute Severe Pancreatitis; Chapter 16 Sepsis; Chapter 17 Fulminant Hepatic Failure; Chapter 18 Venous-Thromboembolism

Author Biography:
Shishir K. Maithel, MD Clinical Fellow, Surgery Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA Jonathan Critchlow, MD (edited manuscript) Assistant Professor of Surgery Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA