Principles of Critical Care

Farokh Erach Udwadia MD FRCPE FRCP (LONDON) MASTER FCCP FAMS FACP HON DSC Consultant Physician and Director, Intensive Care Unit, Breach Candy Hospital; Emeritus Professor in Medicine, Grant Medical College and the JJ Group of Hospitals; Consultant Physician, BD Petit Parsee General Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Section 1. An Introduction to Critical Care

Section 2. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Cerebral Preservation in Adults

Section 3. Basic Cardiorespiratory Physiology in the Intensive Care Unit

Section 4. Procedures and Monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit

Section 5. Imaging in the Critical Care Unit

Section 6. Clinical Shock Syndromes

Section 7. Cardiovascular Problems Requiring Critical Care

Section 8. Respiratory Problems Requiring Critical Care

Section 9. Mechanical Ventilation in the Critically Ill

Section 10. Fluid and Electrolyte Disturbances in the Critically Ill

Section 11. Acid-Base Disturbances in the Critically Ill

Section 12. Nutritional Support in the Critically Ill Adult

Section 13. Fever and Acute Infections in a Critical Care Setting

Section 14. Surgical Infections in the Intensive Care Unit

Section 15. Organ System Dysfunction Requiring Critical Care

Section 16. Critical Care after Open Heart Surgery

Section 17. The Immunocompromised Patient

Section 18. Physical Injuries Requiring Critical Care

Section 19. Critical Care of the Cancer Patient

Section 20. Control of Pain and Anxiety and the Use of Muscle Relaxants in the Critically Ill Patient

Section 21. Critical Care of the Transplant Patient

Section 22. Critical Care in Pregnancy

Section 23. End of Life Care in the Intensive Care Unit