Civetta, Taylor, & Kirby's critical care

National health systems and the place of intensive care medicine: which model? -- Life and death in the ICU: ethical considerations -- Understanding reactions of patients and families -- Breaking bad news to patients -- Informed consent -- Judicial involvement in end-of-life decisions -- Collaborative care: physician and nursing interactions and the foundation of a successful unit -- Clinical decision making -- How to read a medical journal and understand basic statistics -- Quality assurance, safety, and outcomes -- External compliance organizations and measures -- The virtual ICU and telemedicine: computers, electronics, and data management -- Universal precautions: protecting the practitioner -- Intrahospital transport of critically ill patients -- Interhospital transport of critically ill patients -- Invasive pressure monitoring: general principles -- Noninvasive cardiovascular monitoring -- Hemodynamic monitoring: arterial and pulmonary artery catheters -- Monitoring tissue perfusion and oxygenation -- Bedside assessment and monitoring of pulmonary function and power of breathing in the critically ill -- Pulse oximetry and plethysmography -- Capnography -- Echocardiography -- Temperature monitoring -- Blood volume measurements in critical care -- Venous oximetry -- Neurologic monitoring -- Radiographic imaging and bedside ultrasound in the intensive care unit -- Neuroimaging of the critical care patient -- Intensive care unit point-of-care patient -- Clean and aseptic techniques at the bedside -- Vascular cannulation -- Temporary cardiac pacemakers -- Important intensive care procedures -- Interventional radiology in the critical care unit -- Feeding tube placement -- Flexible bronchoscopy -- Airway management -- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy -- Anesthesia in the ICU -- Fluids and electrolytes -- Blood gas analysis and acid-base disorders -- Central nervous system -- The lung structure and function -- Cardiovascular system -- Fundamentals of cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Renal physiology and its systemic impact -- Gastrointestinal physiology -- Coagulation -- Allergy and immunology -- Molecular biology: genomics and proteonomics -- Gene therapy in critical illness: past applications and future potential -- The host response to injury and critical illness. Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome -- Shock: general -- Cardiogentic shock -- Sepsis and septic shock -- Hemorrhage shock -- Neurogenic shock -- Anaphylactic shock -- Splanchnic flow and resuscitation -- Pharmacologic principles -- Sedation and neuromuscular blockade -- Nutritional issues -- Practical aspects of nutritional support -- Toxicology -- Substance abuse and withdrawal: alcohol, cocaine, opioids and other drugs -- Envenomation -- Perioperative pulmonary function testing and consultation -- Preoperative evaluation of the high-risk surgical patient -- Anesthesia: physiology and postanesthesia problems -- Initial management of the trauma patient -- Secondary and tertiary of the trauma patient -- Surgical and post-surgical bleeding -- Abdominal trauma: nonoperative management and postoperative considerations -- Evaluating the acute abdomen -- The difficult post-operative abdomen -- Critical care of hepatopancreatobiliary surgery patients -- Critical care of the thoracic surgical patient -- Postoperative management of adult cardiovascular surgery patients -- Management of the pediatric cardiac surgical patient -- Vascular surgery in the intensvie care unit -- Neurologic injury: prevention and initial care -- CNS vascular disease -- Orthopedic critical care -- Urologic surgery and trauma -- Facial trauma -- Burn injury: thermal and electrical -- Temperature-related injuries -- Transplantation: an overview of problems and concerns -- Heart transplantation -- Lung transplantation -- Liver transplant -- Pancreatic transplantation -- Renal transplantation -- Critical care aspects of stem cell transplantation -- The obstetric patient: general -- Cardiac disease and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy -- Hemorrhagic and liver disorders of pregnancy -- Acute abdomen and trauma during pregnancy -- Fetal monitoring concerns -- The obese surgical patient in the critical care unit -- The geriatric patient -- The role of antibiotics in the management of serious hospital-acquired infections -- An approach to the febrile ICU patient -- Surgical infections -- Skin wounds and musculoskeletal infection -- Neurolgoic infections -- Infections of the head and neck -- Catheter-related bloodstream infections -- Respiratory infections in the ICU -- Adult gastrointestinal infections in the ICU -- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections in the ICU: implications for clinical practice -- Fungal and viral infections -- Infections in the immunocompromised host -- Human immunodeficiency virus in the intensive care unit -- Unusual infections. Evaluation of chest pain and acute coronary syndrome in the ICU -- Non ST elevation acute coronary syndrome: contemporary management strategies -- ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEM) contemporary management strategies -- Evaluation and management of heart failure -- Cardiac mechanical assist devices -- Valvular heart disease -- Cardiac dysrhythmias -- Pericardial disease -- Acute hypertension management in the ICU -- Heart-lung interactions -- Anatomy of mechanical ventilation -- Noninvasive ventilatory support modes -- Invasive ventilatory support modes -- Bedside interpretation of ventilatory waveforms -- Weaning from mechanical ventilation -- High-frequency ventilation: lessons learned and future directions -- Oxygen therapy and basic respiratory care -- Indications for and management of tracheostomy -- Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome -- Extracorporeal circulation for respiratory or cardiac failure -- Drowning -- Aspiration -- Severe asthma exacerbation -- Acute respiratory failure in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- Pulmonary embolism -- Other embolic syndromes (air, fat, amniotic fluid) -- Pleural disease in the intesive care unit -- Massive hemoptysis -- Elevated intracranial pressure -- Altered consciousness and coma in the intensive care unit -- Seizures and status epilepticus -- Neuromuscular disorders -- Behavioral disturbances in the intensive care unit -- ICU discharge criteria and rehabilitation potential for severe brain injury patients -- Upper gastrointestinal bleeding -- Approach to lower gastrointestinal bleeding -- Liver failure: acute and chronic -- Pancreatic disease -- Inflammatory bowel disease and toxic megacolon -- Esophageal disorders -- Gastrointestinal motility disorders -- Mesenteric ischemia -- Acute renal failure -- Renal replacement therapies in the critically ill patient -- Endocrinopathy in the ICU -- Disordered glucose metabolism -- The adrenal gland in critical illness -- Pheochromocytoma -- Thyroid disease in the intensive care unit -- Critical care of autoimmune and connective tissue disorders: rheumatologic diseases in the intensive care unit -- Dermatologic conditions -- Prevention of pressure injuries in the intensive care unit -- Coagulation disorders in the intensive care unit -- Transfusion therapy: when to use it and how to minimize it -- Antithrombotic and thrombolytic therapy -- Hematologic conditions in the ICU -- Oncologic emergencies -- Mass casualty incidents: organizational and triage-management issues that impact critical care -- Bioterrorism -- Emergent pandemic infections and critical care -- Disaster response.