Mount Sinai Expert Guides: Critical Care 1st Edition by Stephan A. Mayer, ISBN-13: 978-1119293262
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- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1st edition (February 1, 2021)
- Language: English
- 656 pages
- ISBN-10: 111929326X
- ISBN-13: 978-1119293262
Part of the Mount Sinai Expert Guide series, this outstanding book provides rapid-access, clinical information on all aspects of Critical Care with a focus on clinical diagnosis and effective patient management. With strong focus on the very best in multidisciplinary patient care, it is the ideal point of care consultation tool for the busy physician.
The Mount Sinai Expert Guides provide quick access to point-of-care specialist clinical information for physicians across a range of therapeutic areas.
For each specialty area, the guides emphasize:
- Common pitfalls in diagnosis and management
- How to prevent complications
- Diagnostic and treatment algorithms
- Key scientific trials
- Evidence-based clinical content
- Major society guidelines in order to summarize the very latest in diagnosis and management of diseases and related symptoms.
Edited by renowned specialists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, key faculty members provide the content for all chapters. To ensure consistency within each book and the series as a whole, chapters follow a unified structure throughout.
Bonus features such as online case studies with related questions for self-assessment are provided via the series companion website.
Each guide also has its own mobile app available for purchase, allowing you rapid access to the key features wherever you may be.
Table of Contents:
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
Stephan A. Mayer is Professor of Neurology and Neurological Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and is Director of Neurocritical Care for the Mount Sinai Health System. He is a graduate of Brown University, received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York, and did his postgraduate medical training in neurology and neurological intensive care at Columbia University. Dr. Mayer is a world leader in the field of neurological intensive care. He has drafted more than 225 original journal articles, 200 book chapters and review articles, 325 abstracts, and 7 books, including Merritt’s Textbook of Neurology, 13th Edition. He was principal investigator of the NovoSeven ICH Trial, a worldwide multicenter clinical trial evaluating ultra-early hemsotatic therapy for brain hemorrhage, and is also active in research related to subarachnoid hemorrhage, therapeutic hypothermia, acute ischemic stroke, status epilepticus, and cerebral blood flow monitoring. He is the recipient of many awards, including an American Heart Association Lifesaver Award in 2014. His work in helping patients survive and recover from massive brain injury has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and in the book Cheating Death, by CNN medical correspondant Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
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