Intensive & Critical Care Medicine

Bestseller in Germany

This ICU book (1800 pages; edition 2023) 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.

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2 Volumes for only 149,90 € *

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PDF Version for only 129,90 €

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Reading Sample

Visualization of the hardcover book with two volumes

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

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

Check out the accompanying German compact course in Intensive Care Medicine