Title: Clinical intensive care and acute medicine /
Authors: Hillman, Ken.; Bishop, Gillian.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Intensive Care Units; Acute Disease therapy; Critical Care methods; Critical care medicine Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Critical Care methods
Contents: A systematic approach to caring for the seriously ill -- Organisation of an intensive care unit -- Routine care of the seriously ill -- Fluid therapy and electrolytes -- Nutrition and metabolism -- Acid-base balance -- Sedation, analgesia and muscle relaxants -- Shock and anaphylaxis -- Multiorgan failure -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Body temperature disorders -- Transport of the seriously ill -- Infection -- Trauma -- Poisoning -- Acute respiratory failure -- Interpretation of the portable chest film -- Specific respiratory problems -- Ventilatory techniques -- Cardiorespiratory monitoring -- Acute cardiovascular failure -- Specific cardiovascular problems -- Acute intracranial disasters -- Specific intracranial problems -- Critical care neurology -- Acute renal failure -- Critical care gastroenterology -- Critical care haematology -- Critical care endocrinology -- Obstetric emergenies -- Economics, outcome and ethics in intensive care.