Basic Ethical Principles in Critical Care
216 Basic Ethical Principles in Critical Care Thomas A. Bledsoe, Mitchell M. Levy Foundations of Ethics in Critical Care Ethics in critical care is based on four fundamental principles: (1)…
Clinical Use of Immunosuppressants
176 Clinical Use of Immunosuppressants Kristine S. Schonder, Robert J. Weber, John J. Fung, Thomas E. Starzl Advances in molecular biology and immunology have provided for greater understanding of the…
Antimicrobials in Chemotherapy Strategy
119 Antimicrobials in Chemotherapy Strategy Douglas N. Fish Infections are frequently suspected or documented in critically ill patients. Patients are often admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for treatment…
Infectious Endocarditis
138 Infectious Endocarditis Anastasia Antoniadou, Helen Giamarellou Infectious endocarditis (IE) is a rare disease with an incidence of 3 to 10 episodes per 100,000 person-years, varying between countries and increasing…
Adjunctive Respiratory Therapy
54 Adjunctive Respiratory Therapy Sanjay Manocha, Keith R. Walley Many critically ill patients are unable to effectively clear secretions that accumulate in the central and peripheral airways. This can be…
Acid-Base Disorders
12 Acid-Base Disorders John A. Kellum Conventional wisdom posits that acid-base disorders are more important for what they tell the clinician about the patient than for any harm that happens…
Hypertensive Crisis
88 Hypertensive Crisis Emergency and Urgency Stuart L. Linas Hypertension is a common problem, and its incidence may be increasing in adults.1 Population data also suggest hypertension is increasing globally;…
Cardiac Surgery
89 Cardiac Surgery Indications and Complications Frédéric Vanden Eynden, Jacques P. Goldstein Since the first clinical use of the heart-lung machine developed by Gibbon in 1953, cardiac surgery has become…
Hematology and Oncology in Children
157 Hematology and Oncology in Children Guillaume Emeriaud, Jacques Lacroix This chapter is an overview of the main hematologic and oncologic problems that can be observed in the pediatric intensive…
Cardiovascular and Endocrinologic Changes Associated with Pregnancy
158 Cardiovascular and Endocrinologic Changes Associated with Pregnancy Marie R. Baldisseri Fundamental to the management of a critically ill pregnant woman is a thorough knowledge of the physiologic changes that…
