Basics of Intensive Care Medicine
FIT for COVID in ICU
The e-book is designed to make you fit for the management of critically ill patients (especially of COVID-19 patients) in the intensive care unit. It contains all the basics of critical care medicine (airway management, ventilation principles and ventilation techniques, weaning, tracheotomy, chest tube [thoracic drainage], analgosedation, catecholamine therapy, hemodynamic monitoring, shock, nutrition, resuscitation, sepsis, ECMO, acute kidney injury, renal replacement therapy, acute coronary syndrome, cardiogenic shock, extracorporeal circulatory support, cardiac arrhythmias, inflammatory heart diseases [endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis], hypertensive crisis, pulmonary embolism, acute aortic syndrom, ARDS, pulmonary hypertension, acute right heart failure, obstructive lung diseases [status asthmaticus, exacerbated COPD], interstitial lung diseases, bronchial hemorrhage), pneumonia, multi-drug-resistant organisms, skin and soft tissue infections, fungal infections (mycoses), malaria, endocrinological emergencies, disorders of the electrolytes, disorders of the acid-base balance, blood products, DIC, hyperfibrinolysis, HIT, ITP, thrombotic microangiopathies and also a separate detailed chapter on COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2).
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The Author
The 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 and is regarded as a must-read in many intensive care units.
Dr. med. Volker Herold
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
- Exacerbated COPD
- Interstitial lung diseases
- Bronchial hemorrhage
Endocrinology
- Endocrinological emergencies
- Diabetic coma (diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome)
- Thyreotoxic crisis
- Myxedema coma
- Addison crisis (acute adrenocortical insufficiency)
- 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
- COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)
- Pneumonia
- Community-aquired pneumonia
- Hospital-aquired pneumonia
- Multi-drug resistant organisms (MDRO)
- Skin and soft tissue infections
- Fungal infections (Mycoses)
- Malaria
Hematology
- Blood products (i.a. red cell concentrates, platelet concetrates, FFP, PCC, antithrombin, fibrinogen, faktor VII, XIII)
- DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulation)
- Hyperfibrinolysis
- AHA (aquired hemophilia)
- von Willebrand disease
- ITP (idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura)
- HIT (heparin-induced thrombocytopenia)
- APS (antiphospholipid syndrome)
- TMA (thrombolic microangiopathies)
- TTP (thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura)
- HUS (hemolytic uremic syndrome)
- HELLP syndrome