Description
Book SynopsisThis issue of World Clinics: Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine focuses on respiratory critical care, presenting an up-to-date collection of articles on the latest developments in the field, authored by internationally renowned experts.
The book begins with an introduction to respiratory critical care and assisted ventilation. The following chapters discuss different disorders including acute COPD and asthma, acute respiratory distress syndrome, pulmonary thromboembolism, and chronic respiratory failure.
The final sections cover critical care in poisoning cases, nutritional management in the ICU, interpretation of arterial blood gases and acid-base abnormalities, and ICU infections and antibiotics.
Each article concludes with comments by the editor highlighting their own experience and summarising the chapter. The book is enhanced by images, table and figures.
Key Points
- Evidence-based review of respiratory critical care topics providing an overview of the latest advances in the field
- Part of the World Clinics: Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine series
- Each article concludes with comments by the editor
- Comprehensive text enhanced by images, tables and figures
Table of Contents
- Editorial
- Abbreviations
- Evolution and the Core of Critical Care
- Assisted Ventilation
- Weaning from Assisted Ventilation
- Management of Acute Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Asthma
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Pulmonary Thromboembolism
- Critical Care in Case of Poisoning
- Chronic Respiratory Failure
- Nutritional Management in the Intensive Care Unit
- Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases and Acid-base Abnormalities
- Intensive Care Unit Infections and Antibiotics
