Handbook of Critical Care

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hall, Jesse B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

Critical care is an exciting field with diverse and complex challenges. These challenges include identifying pathophysiology in the individual patient, integrating care providers from multiple disciplines, addressing social concerns in the sick or dying patient, to name but a few. As a result of thi...

Table of Contents:

• An approach to critical care
• Analgesia and sedation in the intensive care unit
• The cardiovascular system
• The respiratory system
• Acute renal failure
• Neurologic emergencies
• The endocrine system
• Gastrointestinal disorders
• Infection and inflammation
• Hematologic emergencies
• Nutritional support
• Physical injury
• Toxicology
• Scoring systems
• Obstetric emergencies.