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, cardia arrhythmias, inflammatory heart diseases sepsis [endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis], hypertensive crisis, pulmonary embolism, acute aortic syndrom, ARDS) 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
- 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
- Inflammatory heart diseases (endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis [i.a. pericardial effusion, pericardial puncture])
- Hypertensive crisis
Angiology
- Acute pulmonary embolism
- Acute aortic syndrome
Pulmonology
- ARDS
Infectiology
- Sepsis
- COVID-19