Intensive & Critical Care Medicine
FIT for ICU
This ICU book (1660 pages; e-book) 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.
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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
- 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)
- Thyreotoxic crisis
- 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
- 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, factor XIII)
- DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulation)
- Hyperfibrinolysis
- AHA (aquired hemophilia)
- von Willebrand disease
- ITP (idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura)
- HIT (heparin-induced thrombocytopenia)
- APS (antiphospholipid syndrome)
- TMA (thrombotic microangiopathies)
- TTP (thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura)
- HUS (hemolytic uremic syndrome)
- HELLP syndrome
Oncology
- Upper venous congestion (Superior vena cava syndrome)
- Spinal compression syndrome
- Brain metastases
- Tumor lysis syndrome
- Hyperleukocytosis (Leukostasis syndrome)
- GvHD (graft versus host disease)
- Neutropenic fever
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia
- Side effects of immunological therapies (immun 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
- 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
- Polytrauma
- Electrical accident
- Drowning accident
- Diving accident
- Hypothermia
- Hyperthermia (heat stroke)
- Burns
Ethics & Law
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