Small Animal Critical Care Medicine, w. CD-ROM

Part I: Assessment and Triage
1. Physical examination
2. Patient triage
3. Survival prediction index
Part II: Frequently Encountered Problems in the Intensive Care Unit
4. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
5. Fever
6. Hypotension
7. Oliguria
8. Deteriorating mental status
9. Tachypnea and hypoxemia
10. Shock
11. Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)
12. Nosocomial infections and zoonoses
13. Enteral nutrition
14. Parenteral nutrition
Part III: Respiratory Disorders
15. Respiratory failure
16. Upper airway disease
17. Endotracheal intubation
18. Tracheostomy
19. Oxygen therapy
20. Allergic airway disease and asthma
21. Pulmonary edema
22. Pneumonia
23. Aspiration pneumonitis and pneumonia
24. Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome
25. Pulmonary contusions and hemorrhage
26. Ventilator associated lung injury
27. Pulmonary thromboembolism
28. Smoke inhalation
29. Atelectasis
30. Pleural space disease
31. Thoracocentesis
32. Thoracostomy tube placement and drainage
33. Chest wall disease
34. Non-respiratory look-alikes
Part IV: Cardiovascular Disorders
35. Cardiogenic shock
36. Left ventricular failure
37. Feline cardiomyopathy
38. Canine cardiomyopathy
39. Valvular heart disease
40. Myocardial contusion
41. Myocardial infarction
42. Hypertensive crisis
43. Pericardial diseases
44. Pericardial tamponade
45. Bradyarrhythmias and conduction disturbances
46. Supraventricular tachyarrhythmias
47. Ventricular tachyarrhythmias
48. Myocarditis
49. Arterial catheterization
50. Pulmonary arterial catheterization
51. Temporary transvenous pacing
52. Trancutaneous pacing
53. Cardioversion and defibrillation
Part V: Electrolyte and Acid-Base Disturbances
54. Sodium disorders
55. Potassium disorders
56. Calcium disorders
57. Magnesium disorders
58. Phosphate disorders
59. Acid-base disturbances
60. Lactic acidosis
Part VI: Fluid Therapy
61. Peripheral venous catheterization
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