Protecting the Health Care Practitioner
PRECAUTIONS In addition to vaccination, several types of precautions for use in patient care settings are critical to protecting the HCW. Making sense of them and knowing when to implement…
Understanding Reactions of Patients and Families and Sharing Difficult News
Next, medical causes of disruptive behavior should be ruled out. ICU patients acting in a bizarre or agitated manner often do so as part of a delirium. This may entail…
Oxygen Therapy, Respiratory Care, and Monitoring
CHAPTER 108 Oxygen Therapy, Respiratory Care, and Monitoring VITTORIA COMELLINI, LARA PISANI, and STEFANO NAVA INTRODUCTION Supplemental oxygen is one of the most widely used therapies for people admitted to…
Emergent Pandemic Infections
CHAPTER 93 Emergent Pandemic Infections LENNOX K. ARCHIBALD and GAUTAM SUBBAIAH KALYATANDA INTRODUCTION An epidemic of communicable infection that becomes very widespread, affects a whole region or continent, or spreads…
Surgical and Postsurgical Bleeding
CHAPTER 56 Surgical and Postsurgical Bleeding POUYA J. BENYAMINI and DANNY M. TAKANISHI, JR. INTRODUCTION It is crucial that clinicians who provide care to surgical patients understand the dynamic interplay…
Initial Management of the Critically Ill Trauma Patient
CHAPTER 55 Initial Management of the Critically Ill Trauma Patient REX T. CHUNG and DANIEL R. MARGULIES INTRODUCTION Throughout the years, trauma has consistently been a leading cause of mortality…
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the ICU
CHAPTER 51 Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the ICU ARNO L. ZARITSKY INTRODUCTION Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and advanced life support (ALS) interventions are commonly performed in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting….
Splanchnic Flow and Resuscitation
Intestinal tissue injury can be induced by the initial ischemia (either from inadequate oxygen content or inadequate flow) or by the generation of oxygen-derived free radicals during reperfusion (1,7). Ischemic…
