Chapter 24 Acute Respiratory Failure, Acute Lung Injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, and Acute Chest Syndrome Prema R. Menon, MD , Gilman B. Allen, MD 1 What is acute respiratory failure…
Chapter 67 Pneumothorax Madison Macht, MD , Michael E. Hanley, MD 1 What are the major etiologic classifications of pneumothoraces? Pneumothoraces are classified as spontaneous or traumatic: Spontaneous: Spontaneous pneumothoraces…
Chapter 46 Gastrointestinal Bleeding in the Critically ill Patient George Kasotakis, MD , George C. Velmahos, MD, PhD, MSEd 1 What are the anatomic definitions of upper versus lower gastrointestinal…
Chapter 70 Liver and Heart Transplantation Claus U. Niemann, MD , Abbas Ardehali, MD, FACS Liver transplantation 1 How many liver transplantations are performed in the United States annually? Approximately…
Chapter 74 Disaster Medicine Impact On Critical Care Operations John R. Benjamin, MD, MSc , Edward E. George, MD, PhD Disaster medicine encompasses extraordinarily wide and disparate scenarios. Despite the…
Chapter 31 Pericardial Disease (Pericarditis and Pericardial Tamponade) Stuart F. Sidlow, MD , C. William Hanson, III , MD 1 What is the structure of the pericardium? The pericardium is…
Chapter 20 Acute Bacterial Pneumonia Kenneth Shelton, MD , Jeanine P. Wiener-Kronish, MD , Aranya Bagchi, MBBS 1 Define severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) Patients with severe CAP have a number…
Chapter 75 Allergy and Anaphylaxis Susan A. Vassallo, MD 1 When was anaphylaxis first described? In 2641 BC, a wasp from the Hymenoptera order (wasps, bees, ants, sawflies) stung Pharaoh…
Chapter 66 Burns and Frostbite Shawn P. Fagan, MD , Jeremy Goverman, MD, FACS 1 What determines the degree of tissue destruction after a thermal injury? The degree of tissue…
Chapter 88 Quality Assurance and Patient Safety in The Intensive Care Unit Nitin Puri, MD, FACP , Antoinette Spevetz, MD, FCCM, FACP , Carolyn E. Bekes, MD, MHA, FCCM 1…
