Title	Surgical Intensive Care Medicine [electronic resource] / edited by John Merritt O'Donnell, Flรกvio Eduardo Nรกcul
Imprint	Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2001
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6645-5
Descript	LII, 900 p. online resource

Surgical Intensive Care Medicine has been specifically designed to be a practical reference for medical students and house officers to help manage the critically ill surgical patient. The first section is titled "Resuscitation" and exposes the reader to a condensed version of generic topics in primary intensive care medicine. The sections that follow have been categorized according to medical and surgical subspecialties and cover the most germane of problems encountered in a tertiary surgical intensive care unit. Sections of certain chapters, while repetitive, have been left intact in an attempt to maintain the authors' messages and provide the reader with some contradictory but referenced views. The technical chapters describe a very introductory approach to various exercises such as airway management and vascular cannulation

Section 1: Resuscitation -- 1 Oxygen Therapy -- 2 Airway Management -- 3 Vascular Cannulation -- 4 Fluid Resuscitation -- 5 Shock -- 6 Vasoactive Amines and Inotropic Agents -- 7 Evaluation of Hemodynamics and Oxygen Delivery -- 8 Acid-Base Balance and Blood Gas Interpretation -- 9 Analgesia and Sedation -- 10 Neuromuscular Blocking Agents -- 11 Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation -- Section 2: Neurology/Neurosurgery -- 12 Head Injuries -- 13 Spinal Cord Injuries -- 14 Ischemic Stroke -- 15 Hemorrhagic Stroke -- 16 Intracranial Hypertension -- Section 3: Cardiology -- 17 Postoperative Myocardial Infarction -- 18 Postoperative Arrhythmias -- 19 Postoperative Hypertension -- Section 4: Pulmonary Medicine -- 20 Acute Respiratory Failure -- 21 Mechanical Ventilation -- 22 Venous Thromboembolism -- 23 Fat Embolism Syndrome -- 24 Venous Air Embolism -- Section 5: Infectious Diseases -- 25 Sepsis -- 26 Catheter-Related Infection -- 27 Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia -- 28 Intra-Abdominal Sepsis -- 29 Evaluation of the Febrile Patient -- 30 Principles of Antibiotic Therapy -- Section 6: Hematology -- 31 Coagulopathic States -- 32 Blood Products -- Section 7: Metabolism and Nutrition -- 33 Postoperative Management of Diabetes -- 34 Adrenal Insufficiency -- 35 Enteral Nutrition -- 36 Parenteral Nutrition -- Section 8: Nephrology and Electrolytes -- 37 Acute Renal Failure -- 38 Dialytic Therapy -- 39 Disorders of Sodium and Potassium -- 40 Disorders of Magnesium, Calcium, and Phosphorus -- Section 9: Gastroenterology -- 41 Acute Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage -- 42 Acute Pancreatitis -- Section 10: Surgery, Trauma, and Transplantation -- 43 Burns -- 44 Trauma -- 45 The Abdominal Compartment Syndrome -- 46 Rhabdomyolysis -- 47 Postoperative Care of the Cardiac Surgical Patient -- 48 Postoperative Care of the Heart Transplant Patient -- 49 Postoperative Care of the Lung Transplant Patient -- 50 Postoperative Care of the Liver Transplant Patient -- 51 Care of the Organ Donor -- Section 11: Additional Topics -- 52 Hypersensitivity Reactions -- 53 Disorders of Thermoregulation -- 54 Scoring Systems and Outcome Prediction -- 55 Transport -- World Wide Web (WWW) Critical Care Internet Sites