Author | Weil, Max Harry. author |
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Title | Critical Care Medicine Manual [electronic resource] / by Max Harry Weil, Protasio L. DaLuz |
Imprint | New York, NY : Springer US, 1978 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9932-5 |
Descript | XXIV, 371 p. 57 illus. online resource |
I. Respiratory Crises -- Respiratory Monitoring -- Management of Acute Hypoxia and Hypercarbia in the Patient with Advanced Obstructive Airway Disease -- Humidification, Nebulization, and Bronchodilator Agents -- Acute Respiratory Failure in the Critically Ill: โShock Lungโ -- Mechanical Ventilators: Critical Assessment and Methods of Use -- Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation -- Management of Flail Chest -- Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Fat Emboli -- II. Shock and Trauma -- Treatment of Shock and Trauma States: Use of Cardiorespiratory Patterns to Define Therapeutic Goals, Predict Survival, and Titrate Therapy -- Prognostic Indices as a Basis for Assessing Severity of Shock -- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation -- Principles of Fluid Challenge for Routine Treatment of Shock -- The Diagnosis and Treatment of Anaphylactic Shock -- Indications for Use of Corticosteroid Agents in Treatment of Shock -- Hemodynamic Defects Underlying Shock with Indications for Treatment: An Appraisal of Vasopressors and Vasodilators -- III. Neurologic Crises and Opportunistic Infections -- Brain Monitoring and Homeostasis in Comatose, Critically Ill Patients -- Neurologic Monitoring -- Opportunistic Infections in Critical Care Units -- IV. Cardiovascular Crises -- The Relationship of Pulmonary Edema to Hydrostatic and Colloid Osmotic Pressures in Man -- Indications for and Use of Flow-directed Catheters for Diagnosis and Treatment -- Indications for the Treatment of Myocardial Infarcation with Corticosteroids -- Avoiding Emergencies in the Pregnant Patient with Heart Disease -- Sudden Death and Acute Myocardial InfarctionโWhat Are We Talking About? -- Potentially Fatal Ventricular Arrhythmias -- Techniques for Establishing Appropriate Dose Regimens of Digitalis -- Tissue Blood Flow and Oxygen Transport in Critically Ill Patients -- Influence of Pharmacologic Agents on Tissue Metabolism in Circulatory Shock -- Cardiopulmonary Emergencies in the Newborn -- Impedance Reduction in Therapy of Power Failure of the Heart -- V. Renal and Metabolic Crises -- Acute Life-threatening Fluid and Electrolyte Abnormalities -- Metabolic Causes of Arrhythmias in the Critically Ill Patient -- Nutrition of the Critically Ill and Traumatized Patient: Parenteral Alimentation -- Metabolic Crises in the Neonate: Thermoregulation and Hypoglycemia -- VI. Planning and Operations -- The โStatโ Laboratory -- Bedside Automation for the Critically Ill Patient -- Electrical Safety -- The Ethics of Sustaining Life in the Infirm Aged and Critically Ill -- Psychopharmacologic Management of Psychiatric Syndromes in the Critically Ill