Critical Care Medicine

Shock, Stephen Trzeciak, R. Phillip Dellinger, and Joseph E. Parrillo 25 Cardiac Tamponade, Zoltan G. Turi 26 Severe Sepsis and Multiple Organ Dysfunction, Sergio L. Zanotti-Cavazzoni, R. Phillip Dellinger, and Joseph E. Parrillo 27 Hypovolemic Shock, A. B. J. Groeneveld 28 Traumatic Shock and Tissue Hypoperfusion: Nonsurgical Management, David J. Dries 29 Anaphylaxis and Anaphylactic Shock, Marilyn T. Haupt 30 Severe Heart Failure, Fredric Ginsberg and Joseph E. Parrillo 31 Acute Coronary Syndromes and Acute Myocardial Infarction, Steven Werns 32 Cardiac Arrhythmias, Lawrence J. Gessman and Richard Trohman 33 Valvular Heart Disease in Critical Care, Zoltan G. Turi 34 Acute Aortic Dissection, Jonathan H. Cilley, Jr., and Robert J. March 35 Hypertensive Crises, Sergio L. Zanotti-Cavazzoni 36 General Principles of Postoperative Intensive Care Unit Care, Michael J. Hockstein and Philip S. Barie 37 Management of the Patient after Cardiac Surgery, Robert G. Johnson and C. Allen Bashour Part III CRITICAL CARE PULMONARY DISEASE 38 Acute Respiratory Failure, David P. Gurka and Robert A. Balk 39 Life-Threatening Asthma, S. Sujanthy Rajaram and R. Phillip Dellinger 40 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Guillermo Dominguez-Cherit, Juan Gabriel Posadas-Calleja, and Delia Borunda 41 Hypoventilation and Respiratory Muscle Dysfunction, Franco Laghi 42 Nonpulmonary Causes of Respiratory Failure, Ramya Lotano 43 Pneumonia: Considerations for the Critically Ill Patient, Michael S. Niederman 44 Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation, Martin J. Tobin 45 Pulmonary Embolism, John D. Buckley, Daniel R. Ouellette, and John Popovich, Jr. 46 Pulmonary Hypertension, Lewis J. Rubin 47 Massive Hemoptysis, Susan Garwood, Charlie Strange, and Steven A. Sahn 48 Pneumothorax and Barotrauma, Ankur A. Karnik and Ashok M. Karnik 49 Toxic Gas, Fume, and Smoke Inhalation, M. Sean Kincaid, Sam R. Sharar, and Leonard D. Hudson 50 Immunologic Lung Disease in the Critically Ill, Gregory A. Schmidt and Gary W. Hunninghake Part IV CRITICAL CARE INFECTIOUS DISEASE 51 Nosocomial Infection in the Intensive Care Unit, Dennis G. Maki, Christopher J. Crnich, and Nasia Safdar 52 Principles Governing Antimicrobial Therapy in the Intensive Care Unit, John Godke and George Karam 53 Antifungal and Antiviral Therapy, Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner and John H. Rex 54 Critically Ill Immunosuppressed Host, Henry Masur 55 Specifi c Infections with Critical Care Implications, Henry S. Fraimow and Annette C. Reboli Part V RENAL DISEASE AND METABOLIC DISORDERS IN THE CRITICALLY ILL 56 Acute Renal Failure, Robert J. Anderson 57 Chronic Renal Failure, Robert J. Anderson 58 Acid-Base, Electrolyte, and Metabolic Abnormalities, Ahmad Bilal Faridi and Lawrence S. Weisberg 59 Acute Diabetic Emergencies, Hypoglycemia, and Glycemic Control, Michael Chansky and Ghada Haddad 60 Adrenal Insuffi ciency in the Critically Ill Patient, Robert W. Taylor 61 Thyroid Disorders, Susan S. Braithwaite Part VI NEUROLOGIC DISEASE IN THE CRITICALLY ILL 62 Coma, Igor Ougorets and John J. Caronna 63 Neurologic Criteria for Death in Adults, Joseph A. Karam and John M. Luce 64 Stroke, Thomas R. Mirsen 65 Acute Neuromuscular Respiratory Failure in Myasthenia Gravis and Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Osman Samil Kozak and Eelco F. M. Wijdicks 66 Seizures in the Critically Ill, Thomas P. Bleck 67 Head Injury, Alan R. Turtz and H. Warren Goldman Part VII PHYSICAL AND TOXIC INJURY IN THE CRITICALLY ILL 68 Critical Care Management of the Severely Burned Patient, Jeffery R. Saffle 69 Poisonings, Janice L. Zimmerman and Maria Rudis 70 Hypothermia, Hyperthermia, and Rhabdomyolysis, Sanjay Subramanian, J. Christopher Farmer, and Christopher McFadden Part VIII ADMINISTRATIVE, ETHICAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES IN CARE OF THE CRITICALLY ILL 71 Intensive Care Unit Administration and Performance Improvement, Sean Townsend and Carolyn Bekes 72 Ethical Considerations in Managing Critically Ill Patients, Marion Danis, Ezekial Emanuel, and Henry Silverman 73 Delirium, Sleep, and Mental Health Disturbances in Critical Illness, Pratik Pandharipande, James Jackson, and E. Wesley Ely 74 Severity Scoring Systems: Tools for the Evaluation of Patients and Intensive Care Units, Rui P. Moreno and Philipp G. H. Metnitz 75 Education and Training in Critical Care, Nandan Gautam, Hannah Reay, and Julian Bion Part IX OTHER CRITICAL CARE DISORDERS AND ISSUES IN CARE OF THE CRITICALLY ILL 76 Diagnosis and Management of Liver Failure in the Adult, Nick Murphy 77 Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Louis Chaptini and Steven Peikin 78 Acute Pancreatitis, John C. Marshall 79 Hemorrhagic and Thrombotic Disorders, Neil A. Lachant 80 Use of Blood Components in the Intensive Care Unit, Judith A. Luce 81 Intensive Care of the Cancer Patient, Brendan D. Curti and Dan L. Longo 82 Critical Care Medicine in Pregnancy, Stephen E. Lapinsky 83 Nutrition Support, Richard G. Barton