Critical Care Medicine at a Glance The market-leading at a Glance series is popular among healthcare students and newly qualified practitioners for its concise, simple approach and excellent illustrations. Each bite-sized chapter is covered in a double-page spread with clear, easy-to-follow diagrams, supported by succinct explanatory text. Covering a wide range of topics, books in the at a Glance series are ideal as introductory texts for teaching, learning and revision, and are useful throughout university and beyond. Everything you need to know about Critical Care MedicineA at a Glance! Critical Care Medicine at a Glance, Fourth Edition provides a succinct, accessible, highly illustrated introduction to the care of the critically ill patient. Designed for medical students, junior doctors and nurses alike, this authoritative revision guide covers the essential clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic skills required to manage critically ill patients with a wide range of conditions in a variety of settings. Colour-coded chapters which contain concise explanatory text, applications to practice, and numerous high-quality photographs, illustrations, diagrams and tables. Fully revised to reflect current guidelines, changes in practice and recent medical innovations, this fourth edition includes expanded coverage of resus, sepsis, COVID-19, ECMO, dermatological emergencies, envenomation and other key conditions and procedures. Updated chapters incorporate current assessment methods used by medical schools and postgraduate training programmes, whilst additional NPearls of WisdomO boxes and NWise Owl ReadingO reference suggestions are integrated throughout to aid learning and comprehension. O Allows rapid access to the knowledge and skills required to care for the acute and critically ill O Covers a wide range of topics such as respiratory and neurological emergencies, arrhythmias, ventilation and intubation, trauma surgery and abdominal imaging O Features contributions from leading critical care practitioners O Provides normal values, reference ranges and treatment and monitoring guidelines for various critical care scenarios O Includes practical case studies, revision questions and self-assessment tests with answers O Contains several useful appendices, including information on pacemaker types and classifications Critical Care Medicine at a Glance, Fourth Edition is a must-have for medical students, junior doctors and nurses in intensive care and emergency medicine and those undertaking postgraduate exams. For more information on the complete range of Wiley Medical Education publications, please visit: www.wiley.com To receive automatic updates on Wiley books and journals, join our email list. Sign up today at www.wiley.com/email All content reviewed by students for students Wiley Medical Education books are designed exactly for their intended audience. All of our books are developed in collaboration with students. This means that our books are always published with you, the student, in mind. If you would like to be one of our student reviewers, go to www.reviewmedicalbooks.com to find out more. This book is also available as an e-book. For more details, please see www.wiley.com/buy/9781119605881
Preface viii Acknowledgements ix Units, symbols and abbreviations x How to use your textbook xvi Part 1 General 1 Recognising the unwell patient 2 2 Managing the critically ill patient 4 3 Monitoring in critical care medicine 6 4 The electrocardiogram 8 5 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation 10 6 Oxygen transport 12 7 Shock 14 8 Circulatory assessment 16 9 Fluid management: pathophysiological factors 18 10 Fluid management: assessment and prescription 20 11 Fluid management: fluid choice 22 12 Inotropes and vasopressors 23 13 Failure of oxygenation and respiratory failure 24 14. Oxygenation and oxygen therapy 26 15. Airways obstruction and management 28 16 Non-invasive ventilation 30 17 Endotracheal intubation 32 18 Mechanical ventilation 34 19 Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation 20 Respiratory management, weaning and tracheostomy 21 Arterial blood gases and acid-base balance 22 Analgesia, sedation and paralysis 23 Enteral and parenteral nutrition 24 Hypothermia and hyperthermia 25 Assessment of the patient with suspected infection 26 Sepsis and septic shock 27 Hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infections 28 Fever in the returning traveller 29 Fever (pyrexia) of unknown origin 30 Coronavirus disease 2019 31 End of life issues 56 Part 2 Medical Cardiac 32 Acute coronary syndromes I: clinical pathophysiology 33 Acute coronary syndromes II: investigations and management 34 Arrhythmias: tachyarrhythmias 35 Arrhythmias: bradyarrhythmias 36 Heart failure and pulmonary oedema 37 Cardiac emergencies 38 Deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism Respiratory 39 Chest imaging and bronchoscopy 40 Community-acquired pneumonia 41 Hospital-acquired (nosocomial) pneumonia 42 Asthma 43 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 44 Acute respiratory distress syndrome 45 Pneumothorax and air leaks 46 Respiratory emergencies Renal and metabolic 47 Acute kidney injury: pathophysiology and clinical aspects 48 Acute kidney injury: management and renal replacement therapy 49 Electrolyte disturbances: sodium and potassium 50 Electrolyte disturbances: calcium 51 Electrolyte disturbances: magnesium and phosphate 52 Diabetic emergencies 53 Endocrine emergencies Gastrointestinal 54 Gastrointestinal haemorrhage 55 Jaundice 56 Acute liver failure 57 Acute pancreatitis 58 Vomiting and intestinal obstruction 59 Diarrhoea 60 Ascites 61 Abdominal imaging Neurological 62 Acute confusional state, coma and status epilepticus 63 Stroke 64 Other cerebral vascular disorders 65 Infective neurological emergencies 66 Neuromuscular conditions Infective 67 Specific bacterial infections 68 Common adult viral infections 69 Common fungal and protozoal infections 70 The immune compromised patient Other systems 71 Coagulation disorders and transfusion 72 Drug overdose and poisoning 73 Dermatology in ICU Part 3 Surgical 139 74 Trauma 75 Traumatic brain (head) injury 76 Chest trauma 77 Acute abdominal emergencies 78 Obstetric emergencies 79 Burns, toxic inhalation and electrical injuries 80 Envenomation, stings and bites Part 4 Self-assessment Case studies and questions Case studies answers Appendices Appendix I Sequential (sepsis-related) Organ Failure Assessment score Appendix II Classification of antiarrhythmic drugs (based on Vaughan Williams classification) Appendix III Pacemaker types and classifications Appendix IV Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) staging system for acute kidney injury Appendix V Rockall risk-scoring system for gastrointestinal bleeds Appendix VI Child-Pugh grading Appendix VII Typical criteria for liver transplantation Appendix VIII Royal College of Physicians' top nutrition tips Index
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