Case Studies in Adult Intensive Care Medicine

Preface; Glossary; 1. Cardiac arrest post resuscitation management - NSTEMI / STEMI Richard Porter and Andrew Temple; 2. Initial management of the polytrauma patient Nicola Pawley and Paul Whiting; 3. Management of major burns on the intensive care unit Tushar Mahambrey, Emma England and Will Loh; 4. Management of sepsis Chris Thorpe; 5. Rhabdomyolysis Ingi Elsayed and Ajay H. Raithatha; 6. Management of acute liver failure Elizabeth Wilson and Philip Docherty; 7. Status epilepticus Graeme Nimmo; 8. Acute ischaemic stroke Samir Matloob and Martin Smith; 9. Subarachnoid haemorrhage A. D. Trotman and P. J. Andrews; 10. Management of traumatic brain injury Matthew Wiles; 11. Variceal haemorrhage Gregor McNeill; 12. Surgical management of pancreatitis Qaiser Jalal and Ahmed Al-Mukhtar; 13. Intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome Helen Ellis and Stephen Webber; 14. Management of the ventilated asthmatic patient J. Seidel; 15. Pneumonia Gerry Lynch; 16. Interstitial lung disease Zhe Hui Hui and Omar Pirzada; 17. Chronic pulmonary hypertension: what does critical care have to offer? B. Vickery and A. A. Klein; 18. Acute lung injury Gary H. Mills; 19. The role of non-invasive ventilation following extubation of intensive care unit patients Alastair J. Glossop; 20. Valvular heart disease and endocarditis: Critical care management Jonathan H. Rosser and Nick Morgan-Hughes; 21. Cardiac failure management and mechanical assist devices Miguel Garcia and Julian Barker; 22. Management of common overdoses Ascanio Tridente; 23. Necrotising soft tissue infections in the intensive care unit setting Jane Cunningham and Dave Partridge; 24. Fungal infections Rachel Wadsworth and Dave Partridge; 25. Acutely jaundiced patient - autoimmune hepatitis Lin Lee Wong and Dermot Gleeson; 26. Massive haemorrhage Sarah Linford and Thearina de Beer; 27. Glucose emergencies James Keegan and Gordon Craig; 28. Endocrine emergencies Aylwin J. Chick; 29. Acid base abnormalities