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 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…
Chapter 73 Sedation and Delirium Pratik Pandharipande, MBBS, MSCI , Arna Banerjee, MD 1 What is delirium? Delirium is defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV)…
Chapter 37 Bioterrorism Sarah Mooney, MBBCh, MRCP , Christopher Grace, MD, FACP 1 What is the definition of bioterrorism? A bioterrorism attack has been defined by the Centers for Disease…
Chapter 55 Thrombocytopenia and Platelets Chad T. Wilson, MD, MPH , Hasan B. Alam, MD, FACS 1 What are two principal functions of platelets in effecting hemostasis? Platelets function to…
Chapter 41 Hypertension Stuart L. Linas, MD , Shailendra Sharma, MD 1 What are the hemodynamic determinants of blood pressure (BP)? Arterial BP is the product of cardiac output (CO)…
Chapter 22 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Anne E. Dixon, MA, BM, BCh 1 What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)? COPD is characterized by airflow limitation that is not fully…
