Basics of Intensive Care Medicine Book FIT for COVID in ICU

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, analgosedation, catecholamine therapy, hemodynamic monitoring, shock, nutrition, resuscitation, ECMO, acute coronary syndrome, cardiogenic shock, extracorporeal circulatory support, sepsis, ARDS) and also a separate detailed chapter on COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2).

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The Author

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

Table of Contents

General Part

  • Accesses
    • Venous Accesses
    • Arterial Accesses
  • Airway Management
  • Mechanical Ventilation (basics, types)
  • Non-invasive ventilation (NIV)
  • Weaning
  • Trachetomy
  • 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

Pulmonology

  • ARDS

Infectiology

  • Sepsis
  • COVID-19

Appendix

Compact Course

Check out the accompanying compact course in Intensive Care Medicine

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