Mount Sinai Expert Guides Critical Care

STEPHAN A. MAYER, MD, FCCM, FNCS Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, New York Medical College; Director, Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology, Westchester Medical Center Health Network, Valhalla, NY, USA

JANET M. SHAPIRO, MD, FCCP Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Interim Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Mount Sinai Morningside, New York, NY, USA

UMESH K. GIDWANI, MD, MS, FACC, FCCM, FCCP Associate Professor of Cardiology and Critical Care Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Chief, Cardiac Critical Care, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute; Director, Patient Safety and Quality Institute for Critical Care Medicine, New York, NY, USA

JOHN M. OROPELLO, MD Professor of Surgery and Medicine; Program Director, Critical Care Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Institute for Critical Care Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Scott L. Friedman, MD Fishberg Professor of Medicine; Dean for Therapeutic Discovery; Chief, Division of Liver Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

Contributors


Series Foreword


Preface


List of Abbreviations


About the Companion Website


Part 1: BASIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES


Section Editor: John M. Oropello


1. Airway Management


2. Sedation and Analgesia


3. Vascular Access


4. Bedside Ultrasound


5. Bronchoscopy


6. Bedside Percutaneous Dilational Tracheostomy


7. Nutritional Support and Total Parenteral Nutrition


8. Glycemic Control


9. Prevention of Complications


10. Palliative Care


Part 2: CARDIOVASCULAR CRITICAL CARE


Section Editor: Umesh K. Gidwani


11. Hemodynamic Monitoring


12. Vasoactive Drugs


13. Mechanical Circulatory Support


14. Acute Hypertensive and Aortic Syndromes


15. Cardiac Arrhythmias


16. Acute Coronary Syndromes


17. Heart Failure Management


18. Shock Syndromes


19. Cardiac Arrest


Part 3: PULMONARY CRITICAL CARE


Section Editor: Hassan Khouli


20. Respiratory Monitoring


21. Mechanical Ventilatory Support


22. Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation


23. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome


24. Bronchospasm and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease


25. Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation


Part 4: NEUROLOGIC CRITICAL CARE


Section Editor: Stephan A. Mayer


26. Delirium


27. Stroke


28. Neurotrauma


29. Status Epilepticus


30. Intracranial Pressure and Neuromonitoring


31. Coma and Brain Death


32. Toxicology and Drug Reactions


Part 5: SURGICAL CRITICAL CARE


Section Editor: Adel Basilly-Marcus


33. Gastrointestinal Bleeding


34. Acute Abdomen and Abdominal Sepsis


35. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome


36. Acute Mesenteric Ischemia


37. Surgical Trauma


38. Burns


39. Acute Hepatic Failure


40. Abdominal Organ Transplantation


41. Obstetric Emergencies


Part 6: INFECTIOUS DISEASES


Section Editor: Janet M. Shapiro


42. The Febrile Patient


43. Sepsis


44. Infections Acquired in the Intensive Care Unit


45. Antimicrobial Therapy


46. Pneumonia


47. Central Nervous System Infections


48. Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome


Part 7: RENAL DISORDERS


Section Editor: Paru Patrawalla


49. Fluid Resuscitation


50. Acute Kidney Injury


51. Dialysis


52. Electrolyte Disorders


53. Acid-Base Disorders


Part 8: HEMATOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY


Section Editor: Hooman Poor


54. Blood Products and Transfusions


55. Anticoagulation-Related Bleeding


56. Coagulopathy and Thrombocytopenia


57. Venous Thromboembolism and Pulmonary Embolism


58. Oncologic Emergencies


Index