Intensive and Critical Care Medicine Book

Intensive & Critical Care Medicine

Bestseller in Germany

This ICU book (1800 pages) is designed to make you fit for the management of critically ill patients in the intensive care unit. It contains all topics of the entire Critical Care Medicine. It is available either as a hardcover book (2 volumes in high-quality colored print) or e-book (digital version).

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PDF Version for only 49,90 €

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The Author

This Critical Care Medicine e-book is written by senior physician Dr. med. Volker Herold, who already published the German version of this textbook, which became a bestseller in Germany and is regarded as a must-read in many intensive care units.

Dr. med. Volker Herold

Training as an internist and cardiologist
Additional designation: Emergency Medicine
Senior emergency physician in the emergency medical service (specialist certificate)
Senior physician of Clinic for Internal Medicine, St. Jo­seph Hospital Regensburg / Germany
Head of the compact course in Intensive Care Medicine
Photo of Dr. med. Volker Herold smiling

Table of Contents

General Part

  • Accesses
    • Venous Accesses
    • Arterial Accesses
  • Airway Management
  • Mechanical Ventilation (basics, types)
  • Non-invasive ventilation (NIV)
  • Weaning
  • Tracheotomy
  • Analgosedation
  • Hemodynamic monitoring
  • Circulatory therapy
    • Volume therapy
    • Catecholamine therapy
  • Shock
  • Nutrition of critically ill patients
  • Resuscitation
    • Resuscitation of children
    • Resuscitation of adults

Special Part

Cardiology

  • Acute coronary syndrome (ACS)
  • Cardiogenic shock
  • Cardiac arrhythmias
  • Inflammatory heart diseases (endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis [i.a. pericardial effusion, pericardial puncture])
  • Hypertensive crisis

Angiology

  • Acute pulmonary embolism
  • Acute aortic syndrome

Pulmonology

  • ARDS
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Acute right heart failure
  • Obstructive lung diseases
    • Status asthmaticus
    • Acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD)
  • Interstitial lung diseases
  • Bronchial hemorrhage

Gastroenterology

  • Gastrointestinal bleeding
    • Upper gastrointestinal bleeding
    • Lower gastrointestinal bleeding
  • Acute pancreatitis
  • Gastrointestinal atony
  • Complications of liver cirrhosis
    • Portal hypertension
    • Ascites
    • Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
    • Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy
    • Hepatorenal syndrome
    • Hepatic encephalopathy
    • Hepatopulmonary syndrome
    • Hepatic hydrothorax
    • Spontaneous bacterial empyema
  • Acute liver failure
  • Acute mesenteric ischemia

Endocrinology

  • Endocrinological emergencies
    • Diabetic coma (diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome)
    • Thyroid storm
    • Myxedema coma
    • Addison crisis (acute adrenocortical insufficiency)
    • Pheochromocytoma
    • Conn syndrome
    • Cushing syndrome
    • Hypopituitarism (i.a. pituitary coma)
    • Acute intermittent porphyria
  • Disorders of electrolytes
    • Disorders of sodium
    • Disorders of potassium
    • Disorders of calcium
    • Disorders of magnesium
    • Disorders of phosphate
  • Disorders of acid-base balance
    • Acidoses
    • Alkaloses

Nephrology

  • Acute kidney injury
  • Renal replacement therapy

Infectiology

  • Sepsis
  • Pneumonia
    • Community acquired pneumonia
      • general
      • special
        • Legionellosis
        • Flu
        • COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)
    • Hospital acquired pneumonia
  • Multi-drug resistant organisms (MDRO)
  • Skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI)
  • Fungal infections (mycoses)
  • Malaria

Hematology

  • Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)
  • Hyperfibrinolysis
  • Blood products
  • Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT)
  • Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
  • Thrombotic microangiopathies (TMA)
    • TTP (Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura)
    • HUS (Hemolytic uremic syndrome)
    • HELLP syndrome

Oncology

  • Upper venous congestion
  • Spinal canal compression
  • Brain metastases
  • Tumor lysis syndrome
  • Hyperleukocytosis
  • GvHD (Graft versus Host Disease)
  • Neutropenic fever
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia
  • Side effects of immunologic therapies
    • Immune checkpoint inhibitors
    • CAR-T-cell therapy

Neurology

  • Stroke
  • Intracranial hemorrhage
    • Epidural hemorrhage
    • Subdural hemorrhage
    • Subarachnoidal hemorrhage
    • Intracerebral hemorrhage
  • Status epilepticus
  • Bacterial meningitis
  • Brain death (irreversible loss of brain function), organ donation
  • Neuromuscular diseases
    • Critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP)
    • Critical illness myopathy (CIM)
    • Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS)
    • Malignant hyperthermia (MH)
    • Tetanus
  • Transient global amnesia (TGA)
  • Crises in movement disorders
    • Acinetic crisis
    • Myasthenic crisis
    • Dystonic crisis

Toxicology (Poisoning)

  • General toxicology
  • Special toxicology
    • Intoxications with medicaments
    • Intoxications with drugs
    • Intoxications with alcohols
    • Intoxications with chemicals
    • Intoxications with metals
    • Intoxications with gases
    • Intoxications with mushrooms
    • Intoxications with plants
    • Intoxications with fish
    • Intoxications with snakes

Traumatology

  • Major trauma (polytrauma)
  • Electrical accident
  • Drowning accident
  • Diving accident
  • Hypothermia
  • Hyperthermia (heat stroke)
  • Burns

Ethics & Law

Appendix

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Compact Course

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