Partial Contents

Section I: Perioperative Assessment and ICU Organization

1. Preoperative Assessment
2. Intensive Care Unit Organization: Management, Staffing, and Ensuring Quality-of-Care
3. The Practice of Acute Care Medicine in Community Hospitals
4. Ethical and End-of-Life Issues

Section II: Perioperative INterventions and Pathophysiology

5. Evidence-Based Medicine
6. Genomics in Perioperative Critical Care
7. Research in Critical Care Medicine
8. Medical Informatics in the Intensive Care Unit
9. Management of the Airway and Trecheal Intubation
10. Procedures in the Intensive Care Unit
11. Hemodynamic Assessment in the Critically Ill Patient
12. Fluid Management in Critically Ill Patients
13. Sedative, Analgesic, and Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs
14. Surgical Considerations in the Intensive Care Unit
15. Nutrition Support in the Critically Ill Patient
16. Application of Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Principles in Critically Ill Patients
17. Etiology and Pathophysiology of Shock
18. Diagnosis and Management of Acid-Base and Electrolyte Abnormalities

Section III: Neurologic Critical Care

19. Principles of Cerebroprotection
20. Intensive Care Unit Management of Patients With Head and Spine Cord Injury
21. Diagnosis and Management of Comatose Patients in the Intensive Care Unit
22. Postoperative Care of the Neurosurgical Patient
23. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Cerebrovascular Accident
24. The Diagnosis and Management of Brain-Dead and Nonheart-Beating Organ Donors

Section IV: Cardiovascular Critical Care

...Chapters 25-30

SectionV: Pulmonary Critical Care

...Chapters 31-38

Section VI: Gastrointestinal Critical Care

...Chapters 39-41

Section VII: Renal Critical Care

...Chapters 42-43

Section VIII: Hematologic Critical Care

...Chapters 44-46

Section IX: Infection and Immunology

...Chapters 47-52

Section X: Transplantation

...Chapters 53-56

Section XI: Specialized Perioperative Care

...Chapters 57-63

Index