Oh's Intensive Care Manual (Paperback)

A manual that provides practical information on various aspects of intensive care. It enables the user to manage a patient in an ICU setting effectively. It is suitable for the trainees and practitioners in intensive care, nurses and other allied health professionals in helping to deal with a broad spectrum of conditions encountered in the ICU.

Salient Features
* Represents a consensus of practice/standard of care in Australia/NZ, UK and Europe.
* Treatment guidelines are authoritative since they follow those that are Recommended/laid down by Professional societies.
* Comprehensive, covers all important areas of intensive care medicine.
* Provides a single resource that will cover everything that a user will need to know during the course of an ICU rotation. No need to refer to a larger textbook.
* Information on management and treatment of conditions is balanced by pathophysiological and pharmacological background. This is not just a "cook book" of procedures. It provides all of the essential information for candidates wishing to pass professional examinations.
* Covers the paediatric as well as the adult patient in the ICU.
* Provides quick access and practical guidance for all clinical scenarios.
* Extensive list of key references most taken from the last three years.
* Helps trainees and practitioners prepare for case conference/presentations.

Table of Contents
* Chapter 1 Design and organization of intensive care units
* Chapter 2 Outreach
* Chapter 3 Severity of Illness and Likely Outcome from Critical Illness
* Chapter 4 Transport of the Critically Ill
* Chapter 5 Physiotherapy in Intensive Care
* Chapter 6 Critical Care Nursing
* Chapter 7 Ethics in Intensive Care
* Chapter 8 Common problems after ICU
* Chapter 9 Clinical Information Systems
* Chapter 10 Clinical Trials in Critical Care
* Chapter 11 Overview of Shock
* Chapter 12 Haemodynamic Monitoring
* Chapter 13 Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
* Chapter 14 Monitoring Oxygenation
* Chapter 15 Lactic Acidosis
* Chapter 16 Cardiovascular disease
* Chapter 17 Adult Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
* Chapter 18 Management of cardiac arrhythmias
* Chapter 19 Cardiac pacing and implantable cardioverter defibrillators
* Chapter 20 Acute Heart Failure
* Chapter 21 Valvular and Congenital Heart Disease
* Chapter 22 Postoperative Cardiac Intensive Care
* Chapter 23 Echocardiography in Intensive Care
* Chapter 24 Oxygen Therapy
* Chapter 25 Airway Management and Acute Upper Airway Obstruction
* Chapter 26 Acute Respiratory Failure in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
* Chapter 27 Mechanical Ventilatio
* Chapter 28 Humidification and Inhalation Therapy
* Chapter 29 The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
* Chapter 30 Pulmonary Embolism
* Chapter 31 Severe Acute Asthma
* Chapter 32 Peumonia
* Chapter 33 Non-Invasive Ventilation
* Chapter 34 Respiratory Monitoring
* Chapter 35 Imaging the Chest
* Chapter 36 Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding
* Chapter 37 Severe Acute Pancreatitis
* Chapter 38 Hepatic Failure
* Chapter 39 Abdominal Surgical Catastrophes
* Chapter 40 Acute Renal Failure
* Chapter 41 Renal Replacement Therapy
* Chapter 42 Disorders of Consciousness
* Chzpter 43 Status Epilecticus
* Chapter 44. Acute Cerebrovascular Complications
* Chapter 45 Cerebral Protection
* Chapter 46 Brain Death
* Chapter 47.Meningitis and Encephalomyelitis
* Chapter 48 Tetanus
* Chapter 49 Neuromuscular disorders in intensive care
* Chapter 50 Diabetic Emergencies
* Chapter 51 Diabetes Insipidus and Other Polyuric Syndromes
* Chapter 52 Thyroid Emergencies
* Chapter 53 Adrenocortical Insufficiency in Critical Illness
* Chapter 54 Acute Calcium Disorders
* Chapter 55 Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
* Chapter 56 General obstetric emergencies in the ICU
* Chapter 57 Severe pre-existing disease in pregnancy
* Chapter 58 Anaphylaxis
* Chapter 59 Host defence mechanisms and immunodeficiency disorders
* Chapter 60 HIV and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
* Chapter 61 Severe Sepsis
* Chapter 62 Nosocomial Infection
* Chapter 63.Severe Soft-Tissue Infections
* Chapter 64 Principles of Antibiotic Use
* Chapter 65 Tropical Diseases
* Chapter 66 Severe and Multiple Trauma
* Chapter 67 Severe Head Injuries
* Chapter 68 Maxillofacial and Upper Airway Injuries
* Chapter 69 Chest Injuries
* Chapter 70 Spinal Injuries
* Chapter 71 Abdominal and Pelvic Injuries
* Chapter 72 Near Drowning
* Chapter 73 Burns
* Chapter 74 Thermal disorders
* Chapter 75 Electrical safety and injuries
* Chapter 76 Envenomation
* Chapter 77 Blast Injury and Gunshot Wounds:Pathophysiology
* Chapter 78 Biochemical Terrorism
* Chapter 79 Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Drug Monitoring in Critical Illness
* Chapter 80 Management of acute poisoning
* Chapter 81 Sedation, analgesia and muscle relaxation in the intensive care unit
* Chapter 82 Inotropes and Vasopressors
* Chapter 83 Vasodilators and Antihypertensives
* Chapter 84 Acid-Base Balance and Disorders
* Chapter 85 Fluid and Electrolyte Therapy
* Chapter 86 Metabolic response to injury and infection
* Chapter 87 Enternal and Parenteral Nutruition
* Chapter 88 Blood Transfusion
* Chapter 89. Colloids and blood products
* Chapter 90 Therapeutic plasma exchange and intravenous immunoglobulinimmunomodulatory therapy
* Chapter 91 Haemostatic Failure
* Chapter 92 Haematological Malignancies
* Chapter 93 Organ Donation
* Chapter 94 Liver Transplantation
* Chapter 95 Heart and Lung Transplantation
* Chapter 96 The critically ill child
* Chapter 97 Upper Respiratory Tract Obstruction in Children
* Chapter 98 Acute Respiratory Failure in Children
* Chapter 99 Paediatric Fluid and Electrolyte Therapy
* Chapter 100 Sedation and Analgesia in Children
* Chapter 101 Shock and cardiac disease in children
* Chapter 102 Neurological emergencies in children
* Chapter 103 Paediatric Trauma
* Chapter 104 Equipment for Paediatric Intensive Care
* Chapter 105 Paediatric poisoning
* Chapter 106 Paediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation