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For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Critical Care Secrets, Seventh Edit ...view more
For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Critical Care Secrets, Seventh Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style—making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.
For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review.Critical Care Secrets, Seventh Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style—making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.
New to this edition
Editors reviewing TOC now so new chapters/content still to come but expect COVID coverage
Key Features
The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time – succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective
Fully revised and updated throughout, covering all aspects of today’s practice of critical care, including anatomy, physiology, immunology, and inflammation—fundamentally important topics for in-training and practicing professionals
New chapters on Antibiotic Stewardship and COVID-19
Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams
Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime
Written and fully updated by clinical and thought leaders in critical care who have contributed chapters in their areas of expertise
An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
Author Information
By Renee D. Stapleton, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, USA; Lorenzo Berra, MD, Anesthesiologist and Critical Care Physician, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Medical Director of Respiratory Care, Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
I. General ICU Care 1. Glycemic Control in the ICU 2. Early Mobility 3. Sedation, Analgesia, Delirium 4. Pain Management in the ICU 5. Ethics and Palliative Care 6. Fluid Therapy 7. Nutrition in Critically Ill Patients 8. Mechanical Ventilation 9. Noninvasive Respiratory Support 10. Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation and Extubation 11. Quality Assurance and Patient Safety in the ICU
II. Monitoring 12. Pulse Oximetry, Capnography, and Blood Gas Analysis 13. Hemodynamic Monitoring 14. Neuromonitoring
III. Procedures 15. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation 16. Arterial and Central Venous Catheters 17. Critical Care Ultrasound 18. Ventricular Assist Device 19. Percutaneous Assist Devices 20. Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumps 21. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) 22. Tracheal Intubation and Airway Management 23. Tracheotomy and Upper Airway Obstruction 24. Chest Tubes and Pneumothorax 25. Bronchoscopy 26. Pacemakers and Defibrillators
V. Cardiology 33. Heart Failure and Valvular Heart Disease 34. Acute Myocardial Infarction 35. Cardiac Arrhythmia 36. Aortic Dissection 37. Pericardial Disease (Pericardial Tamponade and Pericarditis)
VI. Infectious Disease 38. Sepsis and Septic Shock 39. Endocarditis 40. Meningitis and Encephalitis in the Intensive Care Unit 41. Disseminated Fungal Infections 42. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria 43. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections 44. H1N1/Influenza 45. Immunocompromised Host
VII. Renal Disease 46. Hypertensive Crises 47. Acute Kidney Injury 48. Renal Replacement Therapy and Rhabdomyolysis 49. Hypokalemia and Hyperkalemia 50. Hyponatremia and Hypernatremia
VIII. Gastroenterology 51. Upper and Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding in the Critically Ill Patient 52. Acute Pancreatitis 53. Hepatitis and Cirrhosis
IX. Endocrinology 54. Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic State 55. Adrenal Insufficiency in the Intensive Care Unit 56. Thyroid Disease in the ICU
X. Hematology/Oncology 57. Blood Products and Coagulation 58. Thrombocytopenia and Platelets 59. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
XI. Neurology 60. Coma 61. Brain Death 62. Status Epilepticus 63. Stroke and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage 64. Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Myasthenia Gravis 65. Alcohol Withdrawal
XII. Surgery and Trauma 66. Burns and Frostbite 67. Thoracic Trauma (Flail Chest and Pulmonary & Myocardial Contusion) 68. Acute Abdomen and Peritonitis 69. Organ Donation
XIII. Emergency Medicine 70. Disaster Medicine, Bioterrorism and Ebola 71. Allergy and Anaphylaxis 72. Hypothermia 73. Heat Stroke
XIV. Toxicology 74. General Approach to Poisonings 75. Analgesics and Antidepressants 76. Toxic Alcohol Poisoning 77. Cardiovascular Medications 78. Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
XV. Unique Patient Populations 79. Care of the Critically Ill Pregnant Patient 80. Care of the Obese patient 81. Oncologic Emergencies 82. Post-Intensive Care Syndrome & Chronic Critical Illness 83. ICU Survivors
XVI. Emerging Therapies 84. Sepsis: Emerging Therapies
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