Critical Care Medicine at a Glance

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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 Medicine… 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 ‘Pearls of Wisdom’ boxes and ‘Wise Owl Reading’ reference suggestions are integrated throughout to aid learning and comprehension.

·         Allows rapid access to the knowledge and skills required to care for the acute and critically ill

·         Covers a wide range of topics such as respiratory and neurological emergencies, arrhythmias, ventilation and intubation, trauma surgery and abdominal imaging

·         Features contributions from leading critical care practitioners

·         Provides normal values, reference ranges and treatment and monitoring guidelines for various critical care scenarios

·         Includes practical case studies, revision questions and self-assessment tests with answers

·         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.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface viii

Acknowledgements ix

Units, symbols and abbreviations x

How to use your textbook xvi

 Part 1 General 1

 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 36

20 Respiratory management, weaning and tracheostomy 38

21 Arterial blood gases and acid–base balance 40

22 Analgesia, sedation and paralysis 42

23 Enteral and parenteral nutrition 44

24 Hypothermia and hyperthermia 46

25 Assessment of the patient with suspected infection 48

26 Sepsis and septic shock 50

27 Hospital- acquired (nosocomial) infections 52

28 Fever in the returning traveller 54

29 Fever (pyrexia) of unknown origin 56

30 Coronavirus disease 2019 58

31 End of life issues 60

 Part 2 Medical 63

Cardiac

32 Acute coronary syndromes I: clinical pathophysiology 64

33 Acute coronary syndromes II: investigations and management 66

34 Arrhythmias: tachyarrhythmias 68

35 Arrhythmias: bradyarrhythmias 71

36 Heart failure and pulmonary oedema 72

37 Cardiac emergencies 74

38 Deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism 76

 Respiratory

39 Chest imaging and bronchoscopy 78

40 Community-acquired pneumonia 80

41 Hospital-acquired (nosocomial) pneumonia 82

42 Asthma 84

43 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 86

44 Acute respiratory distress syndrome 88

45 Pneumothorax and air leaks 90

46 Respiratory emergencies 92

 Renal and metabolic

47 Acute kidney injury: pathophysiology and clinical aspects 94

48 Acute kidney injury: management and renal replacement therapy 96

49 Electrolyte disturbances: sodium and potassium 98

50 Electrolyte disturbances: calcium 100

51 Electrolyte disturbances: magnesium and phosphate 102

52 Diabetic emergencies 104

53 Endocrine emergencies 106

 Gastrointestinal

54 Gastrointestinal haemorrhage 108

55 Jaundice 110

56 Acute liver failure 112

57 Acute pancreatitis 114

58 Vomiting and intestinal obstruction 116

59 Diarrhoea 118

60 Ascites 120

61 Abdominal Imaging 121

 Neurological

62 Acute confusional state, coma and status epilepticus 122

63 Stroke 124

64 Other cerebral vascular disorders 126

65 Infective neurological emergencies 127

66 Neuromuscular conditions 128

 Infective

67 Specific bacterial infections 130

68 Common adult viral infections 132

69 Common fungal and protozoal infections 134

70 The immune compromised patient 136

 Other systems

71 Coagulation disorders and transfusion 138

72 Drug overdose and poisoning 140

73 Dermatology in ICU 142

Part 3 Surgical 145

74 Trauma 146

75 Traumatic brain (head) injury 148

76 Chest trauma 150

77 Acute abdominal emergencies 152

78 Obstetric emergencies 154

79 Burns, toxic inhalation and electrical injuries 156

80 Envenomation, stings and bites 158

Part 4 Self-assessment 161

Case studies and questions 162

Case studies answers 165

Appendices

Appendix I: Sequential (sepsis- related) Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score 172

Appendix II: Classification of antiarrhythmic drugs (based on Vaughan Williams classification) 173

Appendix III: Pacemaker types and classifications 174

Appendix IV: Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) staging system for acute kidney injury 175

Appendix V: Rockall risk- scoring system for gastrointestinal bleeds 176

Appendix VI: Child–Pugh grading 177

Appendix VII: Typical criteria for liver transplantation 178

Appendix VIII: Royal College of Physicians’ top nutrition tips 179

Index 180