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Title

Surgical critical care / edited by Jerome H. Abrams, Paul Druck, Frank B. Cerra.

Publication

Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Abrams, Jerome H., 1949-
• Druck, Paul.
• Cerra, Frank B.

Description

xxxiv, 1092 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"Presenting current perspectives on the physiology and metabolism of the critically ill, this reference demonstrates practical approaches for the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care of the critically ill patient with an abundance of clearly laid-out figures, case studies, graphs, and charts."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Essentials of surgical critical care.

Subject

• Critical care medicine
• Operations, Surgical
• Postoperative care
• Surgical intensive care
• Therapeutics, Surgical
• Critical Care > methods
• Critical Illness
• Intensive Care Units

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Essentials of surgical critical care / edited by Jerome H. Abrams, Frank B. Cerra. 1993.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Stress response and multiple organ failure / Victor Lazaron and Jerome H. Abrams -- 2. Oxygen transport / Jerome H. Abrams and Frank B. Cerra -- 3. Lactic acidosis / Paul Druck -- 4. Nutritional support in critical illness / Paul Druck -- 5. Initial approach to the injured patient / Richard G. Barton -- 6. Fractures in blunt multiple trauma / William J. Flynn, Jr. and Larry Bone -- 7. Burns, electrical injury, and hypothermia and frostbite / David H. Ahrenholz and William Mohr -- 8. Cardiovascular risk : assessment and reduction / Jon F. Berlauk and Jerome H. Abrams -- 9. Life support and management of cardiac arrest / Michael D. Pasquale -- 10. Evaluation of hepatic function / George M. Logan and Joseph R. Bloomer -- 11. The surgical patient and renal failure / Mark E. Rosenberg and Ricardo Correa-Rotter -- 12. Perioperative pulmonary complications and pulmonary risk assessment / Paul Druck -- 13. Ethical considerations in surgical intensive care / Melissa West -- 14. Nursing considerations / Valerie Nebel -- 15. Coma / Frederick Langendorf -- 16. Seizures / Frederick Langendorf -- 17. Head injury / Anthony Bottini -- 18. Spinal cord injury / Anthony Bottini -- 19. Stroke : diagnosis and management / Sabrina Walski-Easton and Edward Rustamzadeh -- 20. Encephalopathy / Jodie Herk Taylor -- 21. Altered cardiac physiology / Vivian L. Clark, James A. Kruse and Richard W. Carlson -- 22. Cardiac arrhythmias and the perioperative period / Charles C. Gornick and Arthur H. L. From -- 23. Myocardial infarction / Steven M. Hollenberg and Sandeep Nathan -- 24. Hypertensive emergencies / Rakesh Gupta and John W. Hoyt -- 25. Cardiopulmonary interactions / Michael R. Pinsky -- 26. Vascular emergencies in the surgical intensive care unit / Alexandre d'Audiffret, Steven Santilli and Connie Lindberg -- 27. Acute lung injury / Larry A. Woods, Alan J. Cropp and Bhagwan Dass -- 28. Bronchospasm / Stephen Trzeciak and R. Phillip Dellinger -- 29. Venous thromboembolism / Mark D. Cipolle -- 30. Airway management / Ian J. Gilmour -- 31. Mechanical ventilator support / Karl L. Yang and Guillermo Guiterrez -- 32. Discontinuation of mechanical ventilation / Paul Druck -- 33. Disturbances of acid-base homeostasis / Jon F. Berlauk and Jerome H. Abrams -- 34. Acute renal failure / Mark E. Rosenberg -- 35. Support of renal function / Connie L. Manske -- 36. Gut function : practical considerations for the intensivist / David C. Evans -- 37. Acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage / Jerome H. Abrams -- 38. Acute pancreatitis in the surgical intensive care unit / Jeffrey G. Chipman -- 39. Biliary complications during critical illness / Paul Druck -- 40. Acute abdomen / Michael D. Pasquale and Roderick A. Barke -- 41. A pathophysiologic approach to fulminant hepatic failure in the intensive care unit / Kambiz Kosari and Timothy D. Sielaff -- 42. Endocrine emergencies / Paul Druck -- 43. Divalent ions / Jeffrey A. Bailey and John E. Mazuski -- 44. Chemical homeostasis / Roderick A. Barke -- 45. Antibiotic resistance in the intensive care unit / Jan E. Patterson and Daniel L. Dent -- 46. Intra-abdominal infection / Ori D. Rotstein and Jerome H. Abrams -- 47. HIV/AIDS and the surgeon / Omobosola Akinsete and Edward N. Janoff -- 48. Infection in the immunocompromised patient / Gregory A. Filice -- 49. Optimization of drug doses / Pamela K. Phelps and Bruce C. Lohr -- 50. Adverse drug reactions and drug interactions in the intensive care unit / Douglas DeCarolis -- 51. Anaphylaxis / Paul Druck -- 52. Disorders of coagulation / Aneel A. Ashrani and Nigel S. Key -- 53. Transfusion therapy / James R. Stubbs -- 54. Agents used for anticoagulation / James R. Stubbs -- 55. Bronchoscopy / Marshall I. Hertz and Paul Gustafson -- 56. Vascular access / Thomas Wozniak and Larry Micon -- 57. Care of central lines / Steven D. Eyer -- 58. Percutaneous tracheostomy / Jeffrey G. Chipman -- 59. Lumbar puncture, thoracentesis, thoracostomy, and paracentesis / Sharon Henry -- 60. Blood pressure monitoring / Jerome H. Abrams -- 61. Cardiac output / Jerome H. Abrams -- 62. Respiratory monitoring / Ian J. Gilmour -- 63. Responding to uncertainty in the intensive care unit : some unanswered questions in critical care and how they got that way / Jerome H. Abrams.

ISBN

0824759117 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005051408
• 9780824759117
• 9780824759117 (hbk.)

OCLC

• ocm56696787
• SCSB-5207335

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries