Looking for a concise and authoritative resource to help you manage the types of complex cardiac, pulmonary, and neurological emergencies you encounter as a resident or attending emergency room physician? Look no further than Decision Making in Emergency Critical Care: An Evidence-Based Handbook. This portable guide to rational clinical decision-making in the challenging – and changing – world of emergency critical care provides in every chapter a streamlined review of a common problem in critical care medicine, along with evidence-based guidelines and summary tables of landmark literature.
Features
- Prepare for effective critical care practice in the emergency room’s often chaotic and resource-limited environment with expert guidance from fellows and attending physicians in the fields of emergency medicine, pulmonary and critical care medicine, cardiology, gastroenterology, and neurocritical care.
- Master critical care fundamentals as experts guide you through the initial resuscitation and the continued management of critical care patients during their first 24 hours of intensive care.
- Confidently make sustained, data-driven decisions for the critically ill patient using expert information on everything from hemodynamic monitoring and critical care ultrasonography to sepsis and septic shock to the ED-ICU transfer of care.
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Author Biography
Table of Contents
Section 1 Introduction
- Emergency Critical Care – Robert Rodriguez
Section 2 Hemodynamic Monitoring
- Tissue Oxygenation and Cardiac Output – Catherine S. Reid, Geoffrey K. Lighthall
- Non-Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring – Chad Myers
- Arterial Blood Pressure Monitoring – Vidya Rao, John E. Arbo
- The Central Venous and Pulmonary Artery Catheter – Carlos Brun, Geoffrey K. Lighthall
Section 3 Critical Care Ultrasonography
- Principles of Critical Care Ultrasonography – Philips Perera, Laleh Gharahbaghian, Thomas Mailhot, Sarah Williams, Diku P. Mandavia
- Pulmonary Ultrasonography – Feras Khan, Anne-Sophie Beraud
Section 4 Pulmonary Critical Care
- Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation – John-Emile Kenny, Stephan J. Ruoss
- Ventilation Strategies in COPD, Asthma, and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension – Jey Chung, Paul Mohabir, Stephen J. Ruoss
- Acute Pulmonary Edema – Nina Patel, Margaret Neff
- High Risk Pulmonary Embolism – Tsuyoshi Mitari
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – Darryl Abrams, Daniel Brodie
- Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Membrane Oxygenation – Vidya Rao, Darryl Abrams, Cara Agerstrand, Daniel Brodie
Section 5 Cardiac Critical Care
- Heart Failure and Cardiogenic Shock – Daniel Sedehi, Venu Menon
- Right Ventricular Failure – Joshua Sternbach, Francois Haddad, John E. Arbo, Anne-Sophie Beraud
- Hypertensive Crises – Anand Swaminathan, Michael P. Jones
- Controversies in Arrhythmia Management – Sam Senturia
- Left Ventricular Assist Devices – Joseph Hsu, Rachel Dotson
- Management of the Post-Cardiac Arrest Patient – Cappi Lay
Section 6 Neurological Critical Care
- Acute Ischemic Stroke – Mohamed Teleb, Paul Sing
- Subarachnoid and Intracerebral Hemorrhage – Airton Leonardo de Oliveira Manoel, David Turkel-Parrella, Cappi Lay, Albert Goffi, Joshua Stillman
- Seizure and Status Epilepticus – Brandon Foreman, Anil Mendiratta
- Myasthenic Crisis and Peripheral Neuromuscular Disorders – Christina Ulane
Section 7 Gastrointestinal and Hematological Critical Care
- Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage – Parvathi Myer, Shai Freidland
- Acute Liver Failure and Hepatic Encephalopathy – Robert Wong, Glen Lutchman
- Pancreatitis – Susan Quan, Walter Park
- Leukemia – Martina Trinkaus,
- Sickle Cell Disease – Richard Ward
- Platelet Disorders and Hemostatic Emergencies – Shawn Kaku, Catherine T. Jamin
- Transfusion Therapy – Michael P. Jones, John E. Arbo
Section 8 Sepsis and Septic Shock
- Sepsis – Michael Scott, Michael Winters
- Vasopressors and Inotropes – Matthew Strehlow
- Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy – Chanu Rhee, Michael Klompas
- Infections in the Immunocompromised Host – Maria Cristina Vazquez-Guillamet, Joshua Mooney, Joseph Hsu
- Burns and Soft Tissue Infections – Carla M. Carvalho, Paul Maggio
- Biomarkers in Sepsis – David M. Maslove
Section 9 Disorders of Acid-Base, Electrolytes, and Fluid Balance
- Acid-Base Disorders – Tara Scherer, Corey Slovis
- Electrolytes Disorders – Katy Deljoui, Michael McCurdy
- Rhabdomyolysis – Audrey Wagner, Deborah M. Stein
- Acute Kidney Injury and Renal Replacement Therapy – Emilee Ruth Willhem-Leen, Glen Chertow
Section 10 Endocrine Critical Care
- Glycemic Control in the Critically Ill – Daniel Runde, Jarone Lee
- Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic State – Catherine T. Jamin, Jeffrey Manko
- Adrenal Insufficiency – Thomas B. Perera
- Thyroid Storm and Myxedema Coma – James Lantry III, John E. Arbo Geoffrey K. Lighthall
Section 11 Toxicological Critical Care
- Cardiotoxins – Nicholas Connor, Silas W. Smith
- Pulmonary Toxins – Hong Kim, Rama B. Rao
- Toxicologic Hyperthermic Syndromes – Mai Takematsu, Rama B. Rao
- Metabolic Inhibitors – Lauren Shawn, Lewis S. Nelson
- Caustics – Payal Sud, Mark Su
- Anticoagulants – Betty Chen, Lewis S. Nelson
- Drugs of Abuse – Rana Biary, Jane Marie Prosser
- Alcohol Withdrawal – Nicole Bouchard
Section 12 Environmental Critical Care
- Hypothermia – Morgan Eutermoser, Jay Lemery
- Altitude Emergencies - Zina Semenovskaya, Christopher Davis, Jay Lemery
- Drowning and Dive-Related Emergencies – Samuel Gerson, Jose Evangelista III
Section 13 Sedation and Delirium
- Delirium – Jin H. Han, Eduard E. Vasilevsis, E. Wesley Ely
- Sedation of the Agitated Patient – Randall Wood, Jin H. Han
- Induction of Intubation and Sedation of the Mechanically Ventilated Patient – Jin H. Han, Pratik Pandharipande
Section 14 Geriatrics and Palliative Care
- The Geriatric Patient – Mary Mulcare, Alexis Halpern, Michael Stern
- Palliative Care in the Emergency Department – Lawrence Ho, J. Randall Curtis
Section 15 The ED-ICU Transfer of Care
- Emergency Department Evaluation of the Critical Ill Patient – Geoffrey K. Lighthall, John E. Arbo
- Severity of Illness Scores and Prognostication – David Maslove
- Indications for Contact and Respiratory Isolation – Chanu Rhee, Michael Klompas
Epilogue – Scott Weingart