Paul Ellis Marik
Professor and Division Chief
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Norfolk, VA

USA

The gold standard of critical care handbooks

Streamlined and updated

Exceptionally clear and easy to read

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Part I. GENERAL ICU TOPICS.- 1. Evidence Based Critical Care.- 2. "Less Is More": New Paradigm in Critical Care.- 3. "Classic" Papers.- 4. Critical Care Medicine 101.- 5. House Officers Guidelines 1 -Housekeeping.- 6. House Officers Guidelines 2 - Procedures.- 7. Admission-Discharge Criteria.- 8. Chronic Critical Illness and the Long Term Sequela of Critical Care.- 9. Fluid Responsiveness and Fluid Resuscitation.- 10. Assessment of Cardiac Function and Cardiac Output.- 11. Peri-Operative Fluid Optimization.- 12. Sepsis.- 13. The Stress Response, Stress Hyperglycemia and Stress Hyperlactemia.- 14. Understanding the Vital Signs: BP, HR, RR, TEMP, SaO2 ... and SV.- 15. Management of Pain, Agitation and Delirium.- 16. Hospital Acquired Infections and Their Prevention.- Part II. PULMONARY.- 17. The Bacterial Pneumonia's: A New Treatment paradigm.- 18. Fever.- 19. Mechanical Ventilation 101.- 20. Non Invasive Ventilation.- 21. Liberation (Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation).- 22. Arterial Blood Gas Analysis.- 23. ARDS.- 24. COPD Exacerbation.- 25. Acute Severe Asthma.- 26. Pleural Effusions and Atelectasis.- 27. Venous Thromboembolic Disease: DVT & PE.- Part III. CARDIAC.- 28. Hypertensive Crises.- 29. Acute Decompensated Cardiac Failure.- 30. Acute Coronary Syndromes.- 31. Arrhythmias.- Part IV. GASTROINTESTINAL.- 32. Nutrition in the ICU - It's Whey Cool.- 33. Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis.- 34. Acute & Chronic Liver Disease.- 35. GI Bleeding.- 36. Pancreatitis.- 37. Diarrhea & Constipation.- Part V. MISCELLANEOUS.- 38. Transfusion of Blood and Blood Products.- 39. Adrenal Insufficiency.- 40. Electrolyte Disturbances.- 41. Acute Kidney Injury.- 42. Acute Ischemic Stroke.- 43. Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- 44. Seizures & Status Epilepticus.- 45. Toxicology.- 46. Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome.- 47. Pregnancy Related Disorders.- 48. The Geriatric ICU Patient.- 49. Obesity in the ICU.- 50. Radiology.- 51. End-of-Life Issues.- 52. Words of Wisdom.