Pocket ICU

"Critical (intensive) care was born and remains a multi-disciplinary specialty. This is obvious in two facets of critical care: (a) it integrates knowlO¿¿edge and practices from many medical specialties (trauma, transplant medicine, cardiology, pulmonary medicine, anesthesiology and pain medicine, and many others); and (b) it requires the close collaboration of medical professionals from many specialties (physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, respiratory therapists, nutritionists, pharmacists, etc.). To achieve this, critical care professionals must be masters of communiO¿¿cation, team building, management, and possess the most up-to-date clinical knowledge"--Provided by publisher.

Common ICU problems -- Monitoring -- Airway management -- ACID-base disturbances -- Pain, agitation, and delirium in the ICU -- Nutrition -- Scoring system for the severity of illness in critical care -- Preventive strategies and evidence-based practice -- Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) -- Emergency department to ICU communication strategies -- Informed consent, procedural standardization, and safety -- Occupational and physical therapy -- Patient and family centered care -- Transitioning from acute care to rehabilitation -- Ethics, palliative and end of life care -- Nursing standards in critical care -- Inter and intrahospital transport of critically ill patients -- Mechanical ventilation and pulmonary issues -- Acute respiratory distress syndrome -- Cardiovascular conditions in the ICU -- acute coronary syndromes and other common cardiac problems -- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and ventricular assist devices -- ^Hematology, fluid and electrolyte management -- Infectious disease, sepsis, and the surviving sepsis guidelines 2015 -- Endocrine disorders and renal issues in the ICU and renal issues -- Cardiac surgical critical care -- Thoracic surgical critical care -- V…