Pediatric Critical Care Current Controversies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mastropietro, Christopher W. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Valentine, Kevin M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Critical care medicine.; Pediatrics.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

This volume provides an overview of the most important current controversies in the field of pediatric intensive care. Organized into sections based on organ systems, the text focuses on controversies surrounding disease processes of the cardiac, respiratory, gastrointestinal, hematologic / immunolo...

Table of Contents:

• Ventilator Management for Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Acute Pediatric Respiratory Failure
• Weaning and Extubation Readiness Assessment in Pediatric Patients
• Medical Management of Status Asthmaticus
• Medical Management of Acute Fulminant Myocarditis
• Pediatric Cardiac Transplantation and Mechanical Assist Devices
• Surgical Management of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
• Nutritional Support in the Pediatric ICU
• Medical Management of Acute Liver Failure
• Diagnosis and Management of Acute Kidney Injury in Critical Illness
• Management of Fluid Overload in the Pediatric ICU
• Management of Cardiopulmonary-bypass Associated Coagulopathy
• Anticoagulation and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
• Secondary Hemophagocytic Lympho Histiocytosis, Macrophage Activation Syndrome, Hyperferritinemic Sepsis-Induced Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome in the Pediatric ICU
• Diagnosis and Management of Fungal Infections in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
• Corticosteroid Therapy for Septic Shock and Pediatric ARDS
• Management of Diabetic Ketoacidosis
• Optimizing Sedation in the Pediatric ICU
• Diagnosis of Brain Death and Organ Donation after Circulatory Death
• Therapeutic Hypothermia in the Pediatric ICU.