Hall J. Critical Care: Just the Facts

McGraw-Hill, 2007. - 475 p. ISBN: 0071440208This concise, yet comprehensive review is the perfect tool to prepare for in-service or licensing exams, for re-certification, or for use as a clinical refresher. Its highly efficient format conveniently condenses and simplifies the most important content, for maximum yield and comprehension-an especially important benefit for facilitating bedside diagnosis in critical care medicine.Assessment of the Critically Ill Patient
Airway Management
Resuscitation
Fluid Therapy
Pain Management
Sedation Management in the ICU
Neuromuscular Blockade
Monitoring the Cardiovascular System
Monitoring the Respiratory System
Assessment of Severity of Illness
Pulmonary Artery Catheter
Nutrition in the Critically Ill
An Approach to Shock
Ventricular Dysfunction in Critical Illness
Rhythm Disturbances in the ICU
Noninvasive Assessment of Cardiac Output
Interpretation of Hemodynamic Waveforms
Myocardial Ischemia
Echocardiography in the Critically Ill Patient
Acute Right Heart Syndromes
Pulmonary Embolism: Thrombus, Fat, Air, and Amniotic Fluid
Pericardial Disease
Cardiovascular Diseases
Aortic Dissection
Mechanical Circulatory Assist Devices
Hypertensive Encephalopathy and Hypertensive Emergencies27 Pathophysiology of Acute spiratory Faillure
Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation
Common Modes of Mechanical Ventilation
Managing the Ventilated Patient
Responding to Crises in the Ventilated Patient
Using Respiractory Waveforms to Adjust Ventilator Settings
Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation
Ventilator-induced Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Acute-on-Chronic Respiratory Failure
Status Asthmaticus
Hemoptysis and Pulmonary Hemmorrhage
Restrictive Diseases of the Respiratory System
Sleep Disordered Breathing
Inhalation Injuries
Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock
Early Goal-Directed Therapy for Sepsis
Drotrecogin alfa (activated)
Approach to Sepsis of Unknown Etiology
Empiric Antibiotic Selection in the Critical Care Setting
Neutropenic Patients
AIDS in the ICU
Endocarditis
Infectious Complications of Intravenous Devices
Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Fungal Infections in the ICU
Central Nervous System Infections
Viral Encephalitis
Life-Threatening Infections of the Head and Neck
Soft Tissue Infections
Urinary System Infections
Gastrointestinal Infections
Severe Malaria
Tetanus
Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
Anthrax and Smallpox
SARS
Influenza
Plague: The Black Death
Botulism
Cerebrovascular Accident
CNS Hemorrhage
Anoxic Encephalopathy
Therapeutic Hypothermia
Status Epilepticus
Acute Spinal Cord Compression
Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit
Neuromuscular Weakness in the ICU
Head Trauma
Coma and Persistent Vegetative State
Brain Death
Anemia, Transfusion, Massive Transfusion
Sickle Cell Disease
Bleeding Disorders in the ICU
Thrombolytic Therapy
Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
Thrombocytopenia in Critically Ill Patients
Plasmapheresis in the ICU
Acute Leukemia
Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
Bone Marrow Transplantation
Toxicities of Chemotherapy
Radiation Pneumonitis
Acute Renal Failure
Renal Replacement Therapy in the ICU
Severe Electrolyte Disorders
Acid-Base Balance
Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Adults
Intensive Insulin Therapy in the Critically Ill
Thyroid Disease
Adrenal Insufficiency
Rhabdomyolysis
Upper GI Hemorrhage
Lower GI Hemorrhage
Acute Hepatic Failure
Chronic Liver Disease
Bleeding Esophageal Varices and TIPS
Acute Pancreatitis
Mesenteric Ischemia
Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Acute Abdomen
Complicatons of Solid Organ Transplantation
Care of the Multi-System Trauma Patient
Spine Injuries
Torso Trauma
Pelvic and Extremity Trauma
Electrical Trauma
Burns
Care of the Post-Cardiac Surgery Patient
Pregnancy in the ICU
Rheumatology in the ICU
Dermatology in the ICU
Toxicology in Adults
Chemical Weapons
Anaphylaxis
Hypothermia
Severe Hyperthermia
Near Drowning
Carbon Monoxide Intoxication
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Acute Alcohol Withdrawal
Central Venous Catheter
Pulmonary Artery Catheter Insertion
Thoracentesis
Pericardiocentesis
Emergent Surgical Airway
Infection Control In the ICU
Transporting the Critically Ill
The eICU
Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapy and Administering Palliative Carer