CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Critical Care, Third Edition: Third Edition (LANGE CURRENT Series)

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. All the management and diagnosis strategies you need in the critical care environment A Doody's Core Title for 2011! CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Critical Care delivers authoritative and clinically focused guidance in a concise, find-it-now format. Following the trusted LANGE approach, it includes a review of the etiology, relevant pathophysiology, and clinical symptoms as a prelude to diagnosis and treatment. Coverage includes everything from renal failure and surgical infections to coronary heart disease. There is a strong emphasis on evidence-based medicine throughout. Features: Comprehensive overview of 39 key critical care topics, covering critical care basics, medical critical care, and the essentials of surgical critical care Valuable perspectives on the latest technologies, equipment, therapeutic strategies, and interventions Addresses common but difficult-to-diagnose critical care problems and delivers “approach to the patient” strategies NEW! Important treatment strategies for venous thromboembolism, acute respiratory distress syndrome, diabetic ketoacidosis, asthma, sepsis, and many more NEW! Current recommendations for deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis, transfusions, goal-directed therapy in sepsis, mechanical ventilation, use of pulmonary artery catheters, and glycemic control NEW! PMID numbers on all references for easy look-up Philosophy & principles of critical care / Darryl Y. Sue & Frederic S. Bongard Fluids, electrolytes, & acid-base / Darryl Y. Sue & Frederic S. Bongard Transfusion therapy / Elizabeth D. Simmons Pharmacotherapy / Darryl Y. Sue Intensive care anesthesia & analgesia / Tai-Shion Lee & Biing-Jaw Chen Nutrition / John A. Tayek Imaging procedures / Kathleen Brown, Steven S. Raman, & Nam C. Yu Intensive care monitoring / Kenneth Waxman, Frederic S. Bongard, & Darryl Y. Sue Transport / Samuel J. Stratton Ethical, legal, & palliative/end-of-life care considerations / Paul S. Selecky Shock & resuscitation / Frederic S. Bongard Respiratory failure / Darryl Y. Sue & Janine R.E. Vintch Renal failure / Andre A. Kaplan Gastrointestinal failure in the ICU / Gideon P. Naudé Infections in the critically ill / Laurie Anne Chu & Mallory D. Witt Surgical infections / Timothy L. Van Natta Bleeding & hemostasis / Elizabeth D. Simmons Psychiatric problems / Stuart J. Eisendrath & John R. Chamberlain Care of the elderly patient / Shawkat Dhanani & Dean C. Norman Critical care of the oncology patient / Darrell W. Harrington & Darryl Y. Sue Cardiac problems in critical care / Shelley Shapiro & Malcolm M. Bersohn Coronary heart disease / Kenneth A. Narahara --Cardiothoracic surgery / Edward D. Verrier & Craig R. Hampton Pulmonary disease / Darryl Y. Sue & Janine R.E. Vintch Endocrine problems in the critically ill patient / Shalender Bhasin, Piya Ballani, & Ricky Phong Mac Diabetes mellitus, hyperglycemia, & the critically ill patient / Eli Ipp & Chuck Huang HIV infection in the critically ill patient / Mallory D. Witt & Darryl Y. Sue Dermatologic problems in the intensive care unit / Kory J. Zipperstein Critical care of vascular disease & emergencies / James T. Lee & Frederic S. Bongard Critical care of neurologic disease / Hugh B. McIntyre, Linda Chang, & Bruce L. Miller Neurosurgical critical care / Duncan Q. McBride Acute abdomen / Allen P. Kong & Michael J. Stamos Gastrointestinal bleeding / Sofiya Reicher & Viktor Eysselein Hepatobiliary disease / Hernan I. Vargas Burns / David W. Mozingo, William G. Cioffi, Jr., & Basil A. Pruitt, Jr. Poisonings & ingestions / Diane Birnbaumer Care of patients with environmental injuries / James R. Macho & William P. Schecter Critical care issues in pregnancy / Marie H. Beall & Andrea T. Jelks Antithrombotic therapy / Elizabeth D. Simmons Equips practitioners and residents with coverage of the salient elements of diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients. The Second Edition features new material on acute respiratory distress syndrome, nutrition, prevention of bleeding, respiratory failure, fluid & electrolyte disorders, critical care monitoring, and imaging procedures. - Publisher Contains quick answers for treating critically ill patients. This book addresses the issues doctors face when treating critically ill patients. It also functions as a review text for students doing clerkships in medicine, surgery, and critical care. Title from PDF title page (viewed on Sept. 9, 2008).