ABC of Intensive Care

This new and updated edition is a practical guide to intensive care for the non–specialist, providing the core knowledge and principles of intensive care patient management.
From general principles through to critical care outreach and end of life care, it covers best practice management in the intensive care unit. It includes the key organ system support as well as monitoring, sepsis, brain–stem death, and nutrition in intensive care. There is also full coverage of organ donation.
This invaluable resource is highly illustrated in colour throughout with new images, references to key evidence, and further reading and resources in each chapter. It is ideal for junior doctors, medical students and specialist nurses working in an acute hospital setting and the ICU and neonatal ICU, and for anyone involved in the management and care of intensive care patients.
Endorsed by the Intensive Care Society (UK) and the Scottish Intensive Care Society.

Spis treści:
Contributors, vii
Preface, ix
Foreword, xi
1 General Principles of Intensive Care Management, 1
Anna Batchelor and Peter Nightingale
2 Communication and Decision–Making in Intensive Care, 4
Martin Hughes and Graham R. Nimmo
3 Monitoring, 8
James Haslam, Jonathan Ball, Andy Rhodes and Peter MacNaughton
4 Sedation, 12
Tim Walsh
5 Pathophysiology of Organ Failure, 18
Charles Hinds and Mervyn Singer
6 Severe Sepsis, 24
Michael Gillies and Duncan Wyncoll
7 Respiratory Support, 29
Simon Baudouin and Timothy W. Evans
8 Cardiovascular Support, 35
Neil Soni and David Watson
9 Renal Failure, 41
Liam Plant and Alasdair Short
10 Neurological Support, 46
Peter J. D. Andrews
11 Liver Support, 51
Julia Wendon and Chris Holland
12 Gastrointestinal Support, 56
Saif Al Musa and Tony M. Rahman
13 Nutrition in the ICU , 62
Marcia McDougall
14 Critical Care Outreach, 66
Mandy Odell and Sheila Adam
15 End–of–Life Care, 71
Ben Shippey and Bob Winter
Index, 74

Nota biograficzna:
Graham Nimmo, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
Mervyn Singer, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University College London, London, UK

Okładka tylna:
This new and updated edition is a practical guide to intensive care for the non–specialist, providing the core knowledge and principles of intensive care patient management.
From general principles through to critical care outreach and end of life care, it covers best practice management in the intensive care unit. It includes the key organ system support as well as monitoring, sepsis, brain–stem death, and nutrition in intensive care. There is also full coverage of organ donation.
This invaluable resource is highly illustrated in colour throughout with new images, references to key evidence, and further reading and resources in each chapter. It is ideal for junior doctors, medical students and specialist nurses working in an acute hospital setting and the ICU and neonatal ICU, and for anyone involved in the management and care of intensive care patients.
Endorsed by the Intensive Care Society (UK) and the Scottish Intensive Care Society.