Infections of Skin, Muscle, and Soft Tissue
135 Infections of Skin, Muscle, and Soft Tissue David Clay Evans, Steven M. Steinberg Infections of skin, soft tissue, and muscle include a broad range of diseases from those originating…
CRITICAL CARE
Resource Allocation in the Intensive Care Unit
215 Resource Allocation in the Intensive Care Unit Gordon D. Rubenfeld Two truisms of economics are that the supply of goods and services is finite and that the supply will…
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
98 Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage Horacio Hojman, Christina J. Wai, Stanley A. Nasraway Definitions Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding can occur from anywhere throughout the GI tract. Classically, GI hemorrhage was classified into upper…
Esophageal Balloon Tamponade
W16 Esophageal Balloon Tamponade Howard R. Doyle Before Procedure Indications • Failure to achieve hemostasis after endoscopic treatment of bleeding esophageal varices • As a temporizing measure when endoscopic treatment…
Acute Viral Syndromes
145 Acute Viral Syndromes Yoshiro Hayashi, David L. Paterson Acute infections with viruses produce a variety of clinical manifestations with a wide spectrum of clinical severity. Viral upper respiratory tract…
Trauma in the Gravid Patient
162 Trauma in the Gravid Patient Samuel A. Tisherman, Greta Piper Trauma is the most common nonobstetric cause of death in pregnant women, accounting for 46% of maternal deaths.1 In…
Sudden Cardiac Death
81 Sudden Cardiac Death Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators Frédéric L. Paulin, Derek V. Exner Since its initial development in the 1970s1 and its introduction to clinical practice in the 1980s,2 the implantable…
Endocrine and Metabolic Crises in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
168 Endocrine and Metabolic Crises in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Andrew C. Argent Increasing numbers of endocrine and metabolic conditions are being recognized, and the number of children in…
Diabetes Insipidus
167 Diabetes Insipidus Serge Brimioulle Diabetes insipidus is a disorder of water metabolism associated with polyuria, urine hypotonicity, and hypernatremia.1–3 The quantitative criteria include urine output greater than 200 mL/h or…
Pathophysiology of Sepsis and Multiple Organ Dysfunction
129 Pathophysiology of Sepsis and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Konrad Reinhart, Frank Bloos Pathophysiology of Sepsis The term sepsis is derived from a Greek word meaning “putrid.” It was believed that…
