Evidence-based practice of critical care. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Clifford S. Deutschman, Patrick J. Neligan.
• Authors: Deutschman, Clifford S; Neligan, Patrick J
• Contents: Section 1: Critical Care and Critical Illness; 1. Has Evidence-Based Medicine Changed the Practice of Critical Care?; 2. Do Protocols/Guidelines Actually Improve Outcomes?; 3. What Happens to Critically Ill Patients After They Leave the ICU?; 4. Can Post-ICU Syndrome (PICS) Be Prevented or Treated?; 5. How Have Genomics Informed Our Understanding of Critical Illness?; Section 2: Basic Respiratory Management and Mechanical Ventilation; 6. Is Oxygen Toxic?; 7. What is the Role of Noninvasive Respiratory Support and High Flow Nasal Cannula in the Intensive Care Unit?; 8. What Is the Role of PEEP and Recruitment Maneuvers in ARDS?; 9. What Is the Best Way to Wean and Liberate Patients from Mechanical Ventilation?; 10. How Does Mechanical Ventilation Damage Lungs? What Can Be Done to Prevent It?; Section 3: Non-ARDS and Non-Infectious Respiratory Disorders; 11. How Should Exacerbations of COPD Be Managed in the Intensive Care Unit?; 12. Is Diaphragmatic Dysfunction a Major Problem Following Mechanical Ventilation?; Section 4: ARDS; 13. ARDS--Are the Current Definitions Useful?; 14. What Are the Pathologic and Pathophysiologic Changes That Accompany ARDS?; 15. What Factors Predispose Patients to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome?; 16. What Is the Best Mechanical Ventilation Strategy in ARDS?; 17. Is Carbon Dioxide Harmful or Helpful in ARDS?; 18. Does Patient Positioning Make a Difference in ARDS?; 19. Do Inhaled Vasodilators in ARDS Make a Difference?; 20. Does ECMO Work?; 21. What Lessons Have We Learned from Epidemiologic Studies of ARDS?; 22. What Are the Long Term Outcomes After ARDS?; Section 5: General Critical Care Management; 23. How Do I Approach Fever in ICU and Should Fever Be Treated?; 24. What Fluids Should be Given to the Critically Ill Patient? What Fluids Should be Avoided?; 25. Should Blood Glucose Be Tightly Controlled in the Intensive Care Unit?; 26. Is There a Role for Therapeutic Hypothermia in Critical Care?; 27. How Do I Manage the Morbidly Obese Critically Ill Patient?; 28. How Do I Safely Transport the Critically Ill Patient?; 29. What Are the Causes of, and How Do I Treat, Critical Illness Neuropathy/Myopathy?; Section 6: Sepsis; 30. What is Sepsis?; 31. How Do I Identify the Patient with “Sepsis”?; 32. Is There Immune Suppression in the Critically Ill Patient - Pro?; 33. Is There Immune Suppression in the Critically Ill Patient - Con?; 34. Does the Timing of Antibiotic Administration Matter in Sepsis?; 35. What Is the Role of Vasopressors and Inotropes in Septic Shock?; 36. Does Monitoring the Microcirculation Make a Difference in Sepsis? Outcome?; 37. Are We Getting Any Better at Diagnosing Sepsis?; 38. Do the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines Work?; 39. Has Outcome in Sepsis Improved? What Works? What Does Not?; Section 7: Persistent Critical Illness; 40. What Happens to the Autonomic Nervous System in Critical Illness?; 41. Is Persistent Critical Illness a Syndrome of Ongoing Inflammation/Immunosuppression/Catabolism?; Section 8: Infection; 42. How Do I Optimize Antibiotic Use in Critical Illness?; 43. How Do I Identify Pathologic Organisms in the 21st Century?; 44. How Do I Diagnose and Manage Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections?; 45. How Do I Manage Central Nervous System Infections (Meningitis/Encephalitis)?; 46. How Can Biomarkers Be Used to Differentiate Between Infection and Non-infectious Causes of Inflammation?; 47. What is Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia? How Do I Diagnose It? How Do I Treat It?; Section 9: Hemodynamic Management; 48. What Is the Role of Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring in Critical Care?; 49. Does the Use of Echocardiography Aid in the Management of the Critically Ill?; 50. How Do I Manage Hemodynamic Decompensation in a Critically Ill Patient?; 51. What are the Best Tools to Optimize the Circulation?; 52. How Should Cardiogenic Shock Be Managed (Including Assist Devices)?; Section 10: Cardiovascular Critical Care; 53. How Do I Manage Acute Heart Failure?; 54. How Do I Diagnose and Manage Myocardial Ischemia in the ICU?; 55. How Do I Prevent or Treat Atrial Fibrillation in Postoperative Critically Ill Patients?; Section 11: Kidney Injury & Critical Illness; 56. How Do I Rapidly and Correctly Identify Acute Kidney Injury?; 57. What Is the Role of Renal Replacement Therapy in the Intensive Care Unit?; 58. What is the Value of Non Dialytic Therapy in Acute Kidney Injury?; Section 12: Metabolic Abnormalities in Critical Illness; 59. How Should Acid-Base Disorders Be Diagnosed?; 60. Is Hyperchloremia Harmful?; 61. Dysnatremias--What Causes Them and How Should They Be Treated?; 62. Why Is Lactate Important in Critical Care?; 63. How Does Critical Illness Alter Metabolism?; Section 13: Neurological Critical Care; 64. How Should Traumatic Brain Injury Be Managed?; 65. How Should Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Be Managed? ; 66. How Should Acute Ischemic Stroke Be Managed in the Intensive Care Unit?; 67. How Should Status Epilepticus Be Managed?; Section 14: Nutrition, Gastrointestinal & Hepatic Critical Care; 68. When and How Should I Feed the Critically Ill Patient?; 69. What Does Critical Illness Do to the Liver?; 70. How Do I Manage a Patient With Acute Liver Failure?; Section 15: Endocrine Critical Care; 71. Is There a Place for Anabolic Hormones in Critical Care?; 72. How Do I Diagnose and Manage Acute Endocrine Emergencies in the ICU?; 73. What Is the Current Role for Corticosteroids in Critical Care?; Section 16: Trauma, Surgery, Obstetrics & Environmental Injuries; 74. How Should Trauma Patients Be Managed in the Intensive Care Unit?; 75. What Is Abdominal Compartment Syndrome and How Should It Be Managed?; 76. How Should Patients with Burns Be Managed in the Intensive Care Unit?; 77. What Is the Best Approach to Resuscitation in Trauma?; 78. How Do I Diagnose and Treat Major Gastrointestinal Bleeding?; 79. How Should the Critically Ill Pregnant Patient Be Managed?; 80. How Do I Diagnose and Manage Patients Admitted to the ICU After Common Poisonings?; Section 17: Hematology Critical Care; 81. When Is Transfusion Therapy Indicated in Critical Illness and When Is It Not?; 82. Is There a Role for GM-CSF and/or Erythropoietin in Critical Illness?; 83. What Anticoagulants Should be Used in the Critically Ill Patient? How Do I Choose?; Section 18: Critical Care Resource Use and Management; 84. Is There a Better Way to Deliver Optimal Critical Care Services?; 85. How Do Critical Care Pharmacists Contribute to Team Based Care?; 86. What Is the Role of Advance Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants in the ICU?; Section 19: Patient Suffering and Other Ethical Issues; 87. Do the Guidelines for Brain Death Determination Need to Be Revised?; 88. How Do I Diagnose, Treat, and Reduce Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit?
• Edition: Third edition
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 616.028; Critical care medicine; Evidence-based medicine
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780323640695
• Related ISBNs: 9780323640688
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