Key topics in critical care
By: Tim Craft, Jerry Nolan, Mike Parr
Contributors: Nolan, Jerry; Parr, M. J. A. (Michael J. A.); NetLibrary, Inc
Series: Key topics series
Publisher: BIOS Scientific Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Herndon, Va
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Critical care medicine
Other titles: Topics in critical care; Critical care
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Admission and Discharge Criteria
pagenum: 1; title: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
pagenum: 5; title: Adrenal Disease
pagenum: 8; title: AIDS
pagenum: 11; title: Analgesia - Basic
pagenum: 14; title: Analgesia - Advanced
pagenum: 18; title: Anaphylaxis
pagenum: 20; title: Arterial Blood Gases - Acid-Base Physiology
pagenum: 23; title: Arterial Blood Gases - Analysis
pagenum: 26; title: Arterial Cannulation
pagenum: 29; title: Asthma
pagenum: 31; title: Blood Coagulation
pagenum: 34; title: Blood and Blood Products
pagenum: 39; title: Blood Transfusion
pagenum: 43; title: Brain Stem Death and Organ Donation
pagenum: 48; title: Burns
pagenum: 51; title: Calcium, Magnesium, and Phosphate
pagenum: 56; title: Cancer Therapy
pagenum: 61; title: Cardiac Arrhythmias
pagenum: 64; title: Cardiac Chest Pain
pagenum: 69; title: Cardiac Failure
pagenum: 73; title: Cardiac Output - Measurement of
pagenum: 77; title: Cardiac Pacing
pagenum: 80; title: Cardiac Valve Disease
pagenum: 83; title: Central Venous Pressure Monitoring
pagenum: 87; title: Chest Tube Thoracostomy
pagenum: 89; title: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
pagenum: 91; title: Coma
pagenum: 96; title: Convulsions
pagenum: 100; title: Death Certification
pagenum: 103; title: Diabetes Mellitus
pagenum: 105; title: Drug Overdose
pagenum: 109; title: Endocarditis
pagenum: 114; title: Epiglottis
pagenum: 118; title: Fibreoptic Bronchoscopy
pagenum: 120; title: Fluid Therapy
pagenum: 122; title: Guillain-Barré Syndrome
pagenum: 126; title: Head Injury
pagenum: 128; title: Hyperthermia
pagenum: 133; title: Hypothermia
pagenum: 136; title: Infection Control
pagenum: 140; title: Infection in Critical Care
pagenum: 143; title: Liver Dysfunction
pagenum: 147; title: Meningitis
pagenum: 151; title: Meningococcal Sepsis
pagenum: 154; title: Myasthenia Gravis
pagenum: 156; title: Nutrition
pagenum: 159; title: Obstetric Emergencies - Major Haemorrhage
pagenum: 162; title: Obstetric Emergencies - Medical
pagenum: 166; title: Pancreatitis
pagenum: 169; title: Pneumonia - Community Acquired
pagenum: 173; title: Pneumonia - Hospital Acquired
pagenum: 177; title: Potassium
pagenum: 180; title: Psychological Aspects of Critical Care
pagenum: 183; title: Pulmonary Aspiration
pagenum: 185; title: Pulmonary Embolism
pagenum: 189; title: Renal Failure - Rescue Therapy
pagenum: 192; title: Renal Failure - Acute
pagenum: 194; title: Renal Replacement Therapy
pagenum: 197; title: Respiratory Support - Non-Invasive
pagenum: 200; title: Respiratory Support - Invasive
pagenum: 205; title: Respiratory Support - Weaning from Ventilation
pagenum: 210; title: Resuscitation - Cardiopulmonary
pagenum: 213; title: Resuscitation - Post-Resuscitation Care
pagenum: 216; title: Scoring Systems
pagenum: 219; title: Sedation
pagenum: 223; title: Sickle Cell Disease
pagenum: 226; title: SIRS, Sepsis, and Multiple Organ Failure
pagenum: 228; title: Sodium
pagenum: 231; title: Spinal Injury
pagenum: 235; title: Stress Ulceration
pagenum: 240; title: Stroke
pagenum: 243; title: Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
pagenum: 245; title: Thyroid Emergencies
pagenum: 248; title: Tracheostomy
pagenum: 250; title: Transfer of the Critically Ill
pagenum: 253; title: Trauma - Primary Survey and Resuscitation
pagenum: 257; title: Trauma - Secondary Survey
pagenum: 260; title: Trauma - Anaesthesia and Critical Care
pagenum: 263; title: Index
pagenum: 265