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Key Topics in Management of the Critically Ill

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Editors:
  1. Marcela P. Vizcaychipi

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

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  2. Carlos M. Corredor

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

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  • Discusses important and novel topics in the day-to-day management of the critically ill

  • Provides guidance on the response to various emergencies and circumstances

  • Examines the role of simulation training in the intensive care unit

  • Describes the use of regional anesthesia in intensive care

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Key Topics in Management of the Critically Ill

  • Editors: Marcela P. Vizcaychipi, Carlos M. Corredor

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22377-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-22376-6Published: 25 November 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37411-6Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-22377-3Published: 11 November 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 199

  • Topics: Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine

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