Main description:

This expanded and updated 2006 edition of Handbook of ICU Therapy builds on the success of the first edition and continues to provide concise information on a broad spectrum of issues relating to care of the critically ill patient. There are also several new, topical chapters. As with the first edition, it is equally applicable to anaesthetists, intensivists, operating department practitioners and anaesthetic/theatre/recovery nurses, and the heart of the book focuses on providing practical information in a readable and easily accessible format. All of the authors are directly involved in ICU practice and/or research and are familiar with the most recent developments in this fast-moving area of medicine.

Contents:

Part I. Basic Principles: 1. Cardiac function, monitoring, oxygen transport I. McConachie; 2. Shock I. McConachie; 3. Oxygen therapy D. Kelly; 4. Central venous access T. Owen; 5. Fluid therapy in ICU I. McConachie; 6. Anaemia and blood therapy I. McConachie; 7. Nutrition S. Wiggans; 8. Non-invasive mechanical ventilation D. Kelly; 9. Principles of IPPV I. McConachie; 10. Modes of ventilation and ventilatory strategies P. Nightingale; 11. Weaning and tracheostomy J. Cupitt; 12. Vasoactive drugs V. Godbole; 13. Infection and infection control N. Randall; 14. Sedation, analgesia and neuromuscular block N. Sharma and R. Morgan; 15. Continuous renal replacement therapy R. Brits; 16. Withholding and withdrawing therapyin the ICU I. McConachie; Part II. Specific Problems: 17. The surgical patient in the ICU I. McConachie; 18. The trauma patient J. Costello; 19. Acute Coronary Syndromes R. Beynon and D. H. Roberts; 20. Heart failure R. Beynon and D. H. Roberts; 21. Arrhythmias S. Vaughan; 22. The patient with sepsis R. Markham; 23. Acute renal failure in the critically ill R. Kishen; 24. Acute lung injury and ARDS J. Naisbitt and C. Clarke; 25. The patient with gastrointestinal problems V. Godbole; 26. The comatose patient S. Wiggans; 27. The critically ill asthmatic J. Barker and G. Brear; 28. The critically ill diabetic I. McConachie; 29. The cardiac surgical patient in the ICU J. Dunning and C. Harle; 30. Cardiac arrest I. McConachie.