Mount Sinai Expert Guides: Critical Care

Part of the Mount Sinai Expert Guide series, this outstanding book provides rapid-access, clinical information on all aspects of Critical Care with a focus on clinical diagnosis and effective patient management. With strong focus on the very best in multidisciplinary patient care, it is the ideal point of care consultation tool for the busy physician.

contents

Contributors

Series Foreword

Preface

List of Abbreviations

About the Companion Website

Part 1: BASIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES

Section Editor: John M. Oropello

1. Airway Management

2. Sedation and Analgesia

3. Vascular Access

4. Bedside Ultrasound

5. Bronchoscopy

6. Bedside Percutaneous Dilational Tracheostomy

7. Nutritional Support and Total Parenteral Nutrition

8. Glycemic Control

9. Prevention of Complications

10. Palliative Care

Part 2: CARDIOVASCULAR CRITICAL CARE

Section Editor: Umesh K. Gidwani

11. Hemodynamic Monitoring

12. Vasoactive Drugs

13. Mechanical Circulatory Support

14. Acute Hypertensive and Aortic Syndromes

15. Cardiac Arrhythmias

16. Acute Coronary Syndromes

17. Heart Failure Management

18. Shock Syndromes

19. Cardiac Arrest

Part 3: PULMONARY CRITICAL CARE

Section Editor: Hassan Khouli

20. Respiratory Monitoring

21. Mechanical Ventilatory Support

22. Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation

23. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

24. Bronchospasm and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

25. Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation

Part 4: NEUROLOGIC CRITICAL CARE

Section Editor: Stephan A. Mayer

26. Delirium

27. Stroke

28. Neurotrauma

29. Status Epilepticus

30. Intracranial Pressure and Neuromonitoring

31. Coma and Brain Death

32. Toxicology and Drug Reactions

Part 5: SURGICAL CRITICAL CARE

Section Editor: Adel Basilly-Marcus

33. Gastrointestinal Bleeding

34. Acute Abdomen and Abdominal Sepsis

35. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome

36. Acute Mesenteric Ischemia

37. Surgical Trauma

38. Burns

39. Acute Hepatic Failure

40. Abdominal Organ Transplantation

41. Obstetric Emergencies

Part 6: INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Section Editor: Janet M. Shapiro

42. The Febrile Patient

43. Sepsis

44. Infections Acquired in the Intensive Care Unit

45. Antimicrobial Therapy

46. Pneumonia

47. Central Nervous System Infections

48. Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Part 7: RENAL DISORDERS

Section Editor: Paru Patrawalla

49. Fluid Resuscitation

50. Acute Kidney Injury

51. Dialysis

52. Electrolyte Disorders

53. Acid–Base Disorders

Part 8: HEMATOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY

Section Editor: Hooman Poor

54. Blood Products and Transfusions

55. Anticoagulation-Related Bleeding

56. Coagulopathy and Thrombocytopenia

57. Venous Thromboembolism and Pulmonary Embolism

58. Oncologic Emergencies

Index

STEPHAN A. MAYER, MD, FCCM, FNCS Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, New York Medical College; Director, Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology, Westchester Medical Center Health Network, Valhalla, NY, USA

JANET M. SHAPIRO, MD, FCCP Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Interim Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Mount Sinai Morningside, New York, NY, USA

UMESH K. GIDWANI, MD, MS, FACC, FCCM, FCCP Associate Professor of Cardiology and Critical Care Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Chief, Cardiac Critical Care, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute; Director, Patient Safety and Quality Institute for Critical Care Medicine, New York, NY, USA

JOHN M. OROPELLO, MD Professor of Surgery and Medicine; Program Director, Critical Care Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Institute for Critical Care Medicine, New York, NY, USA

SERIES EDITOR

Scott L. Friedman, MD Fishberg Professor of Medicine; Dean for Therapeutic Discovery; Chief, Division of Liver Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA