Key Topics in Management of the Critically Ill

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Simulation Training in the Intensive Care Unit

   • Alina Hua, Helen Williams, Naz Nordin, Kevin Haire

   Pages 1-11

3. Assessment and Management of the Delirious Patient in the Intensive Care Unit

   • Valerie J. Page, Annalisa Casarin

   Pages 13-24

4. Management of Stroke in a Non-neurointensive Care Unit

   • Ian Conrick-Martin, Áine Merwick

   Pages 25-46

5. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation for Critically Ill Patients

   • Olivia Clancy, Annalisa Casarin, Trudi Edginton, Marcela P. Vizcaychipi

   Pages 47-61

6. Pain in Intensive Care

   • Harriet Wordsworth, Helen Laycock

   Pages 63-74

7. Regional Anaesthesia in the Intensive Care Unit

   • Jacinda Gail Hammerschlag, Richard Peter von Rahden

   Pages 75-85

8. Dynamic Assessment of the Heart: Echocardiography in the Intensive Care Unit

   • Carlos M. Corredor

   Pages 87-103

9. The Role of Lung Ultrasound on the Daily Assessment of the Critically Ill Patient

   • Nektaria Xirouchaki, Dimitrios Georgopoulos

   Pages 105-115

10. Acute Liver Failure: Diagnosis and Management for the General Intensive Care

    • Behrad Baharlo

    Pages 117-135

11. The Initial Surgical Management of the Critically Ill Burn Patient

    • Jorge Leon-Villapalos

    Pages 137-153

12. The Critically Ill Burn Patient: How Do We Get It Right?

    • Katherine Horner, Catherine Isitt, Asako Shida

    Pages 155-166

13. Venous Thromboembolism Prevention and the Role of Non-Coumarin Oral Anticoagulants in the Intensive Care Units

    • Simona Deplano, Sheena Patel, Ian Gabriel, Francis Matthey

    Pages 167-178

14. Magnesium and Cell Membrane Stability in the Critically Ill Patient

    • Felicia Bamgbose, Pranev Sharma

    Pages 179-188

15. Transfer of the Sickest Patient in the Hospital: When How and by Whom

    • Michael E. O’Connor, Jonathan M. Handy

    Pages 189-198

16. Erratum to Contributors and Chapter 3 in Key Topics in Management of the Critically Ill

    • I. Conrick-Martin, Á Merwick

    Pages E1-E1

This book is designed to assist clinicians who are new to intensive care by providing information on a range of important and novel topics of relevance in the day-to-day management of critically ill patients. Guidance is given on the appropriate response to various emergencies and circumstances, including stroke, acute liver failure, severe burns, extreme pain, and delirium. The role of simulation training in the intensive care unit is discussed, and detailed attention is devoted to the application of modern techniques for the assessment of vital organs in the critical care setting, such as echocardiography and lung ultrasound.  An individual chapter focuses on regional anesthesia in intensive care, and in addition the book addresses subjects and issues that are frequently neglected. Examples include transfer of the critically ill patient, the role of forgotten electrolytes such as magnesium, the use of non-coumarin anticoagulants, and neuropsychological rehabilitation. The book will have broad appeal, including for general intensivists, anesthetists, acute medicine physicians, and medical students attached to acute specialties or preparing for exams in intensive care medicine.

• Burns in intensive care
• Echocardiogram
• Echocardiography in intensive care
• Neurorehabilitation and perioperative cognitive dysfunction
• Regional anesthesia in intensive care
• Simulation in intensive care
• Ultrasound in intensive care

• Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom

  Marcela P. Vizcaychipi

• Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive, St George's Hospital, London, United Kingdom

  Carlos M. Corredor

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