Table of Contents

Resuscitation and General Topics.- Supplemental Oxygen Therapy.- Airway Management in the Intensive Care Unit.- Vascular Cannulation.- Fluid Resuscitation.- Vasoactive Amines and Inotropic Agents.- Shock.- Hemodynamic Monitoring.- Acid—Base Disorders.- Analgesia and Sedation.- Neuromuscular Blocking Agents.- Optimization of the High-Risk Surgical Patient.- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.- Neurocritical Care.- Management of Closed Head Injury.- Spinal Cord Injuries.- Ischemic Stroke.- Hemorrhagic Stroke.- Status Epilepticus.- Critical Illness Polyneuropathy and Myopathy.- Cardiology.- Management of Hypertension in the Perioperative Period.- Postoperative Myocardial Infarction.- Management of Postoperative Arrhythmias.- Pulmonary Medicine.- Acute Respiratory Failure.- Mechanical Ventilation.- Venous Thromboembolism.- Fat Embolism Syndrome.- Venous Air Embolism.- Infectious Diseases, Sepsis, MODS.- Sepsis.- Vascular Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections.- Pneumonia.- Intra-abdominal Sepsis.- Evaluation of the Febrile Patient in the ICU.- Antimicrobial Use in Surgical Intensive Care.- Hematology.- Coagulation Abnormalities in the Critically Ill.- Blood Products.- Metabolism and Nutrition.- Hyperglycemia in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit.- Adrenal Insufficiency.- Nutrition Support in Intensive Care.- Nephrology and Electrolytes.- Acute Kidney Injury.- Renal Replacement Therapy.- Disorders of Electrolytes.- Gastroenterology.- Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Acute Pancreatitis.- Surgery, Trauma, and Transplantation.- Trauma.- Burns.- The Abdominal Compartment Syndrome.- Rhabdomyolysis.- Postoperative Care of the Cardiac Surgical Patient.- Postoperative Care Following Major Vascular Surgery.- Postoperative Care After Bariatric Surgery.- Care of the Organ Donor.- PostoperativeCare of the Heart Transplant Patient.- Postoperative Care of the Lung-Transplant Patient.- Postoperative Care of the Liver-Transplant Patient.- Postoperative Care of the Pancreas-Transplant Recipient.- Additional Topics.- Management of the Critically Ill Geriatric Patient.- Alcohol Withdrawal in the Surgical Patient: Prevention and Treatment.- Ethics and the End-of-Life Care.- Scoring Systems and Outcome Prediction.- Improving the Intensive Care Unit.- Continuing Education in Critical Care Medicine.- Erratum to: Surgical Intensive Care Medicine, Second Edition.

Reviews

From the reviews of the second edition: “This is the second edition of a multidisciplinary overview of the management of critical care problems in surgical patients. … Senior trainees and practitioners facing patients with surgical problems are an appropriate audience for this book, which originates from an international group of critical care authorities. … This book collects presentations from an outstanding group of international authorities. … Information about blood product use and recent work in resuscitation could be enhanced given the importance of these topics in the care of surgical patients.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, April, 2010)