Critical Care Surgery

Critical Care Surgery provides an illustrative, instructive, and comprehensive review that depicts the rationale of basic operative principles essential to surgical therapy in the critically ill patient. The chapters provide pertinent and concise summaries of how to deal with various types of critical illness, including acute renal failure, coma and altered mental status, multiple organ dysfunction and hepatic failure. Stages of operative approaches with relevant technical considerations are outlined in a straightforward manner, and complications are reviewed when appropriate for the organ system and problem. The text is illustrated throughout by line drawings and photographs that depict anatomic or technical principles. A concise, handbook-sized reference work, this book is a valuable resource for all general surgeons and residents in training. Table of contents Acute Renal Failure.- Monitoring of Respiratory Function and Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation.- Coma and Altered Mental Status in the Surgical Critical Care Setting; Brain Death.- Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias.- Do Not Resuscitate, Do Not Treat.- Multiple Organ Dysfunction: The Systemic Host Response to Critical Surgical Illness.- Hepatic Failure General Principles of Sepsis.- Neurologic Physiology: The Brain and Its Response to Injury Pulmonary Embolism.- Right Ventricular Failure and Cardiogenic Shock.- Nosocomial Pneumonia.- Gastrointestinal Failure.- Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetes Insipidus. Bland, K.I.; Sarr, M.G.; Büchler, M.W.; Csendes, A.; Garden, O.J.; Wong, J. (Eds.)