Management of Pain, Anxiety, and Delirium
205 Management of Pain, Anxiety, and Delirium Christopher G. Hughes, E. Wesley Ely, Pratik P. Pandharipande Pain, anxiety, and delirium are extremely common in the ICU, where they are often…
Acute Bloodstream Infection
132 Acute Bloodstream Infection Walter Zingg, Philippe Eggimann, Didier Pittet Acute bloodstream infection, which may be primary or secondary and community-acquired or nosocomial, is one of the most severe forms…
Thyroid Gland Disorders
166 Thyroid Gland Disorders Angela M. Leung, Alan P. Farwell Thyroid storm and myxedema coma are life-threatening emergencies that represent the extreme ends of the spectrum of thyroid dysfunction in…
Arterial Blood Gas Interpretation
45 Arterial Blood Gas Interpretation Paul E. Marik Arterial blood gas (ABG) analysis plays a pivotal role in the management of critically ill patients. Although no randomized controlled study has…
Infectious Endocarditis
87 Infectious Endocarditis Michel Wolff, Jean-François Timsit, Bruno Mourvillier Infectious endocarditis is associated with a myriad of complications, both cardiac and extracardiac, that may require intensive care unit (ICU) admission….
Hepatic Encephalopathy
101 Hepatic Encephalopathy Alvaro Martinez-Camacho, Brett E. Fortune, Gregory T. Everson Hepatic encephalopathy encompasses a spectrum of neuropsychiatric abnormalities that occur in patients with liver disease in the absence of…
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Patient
155 Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Patient Sanjay Chawla, Louis P. Voigt, Jeffrey S. Groeger Bone marrow transplantation was developed as a treatment for hematologic malignancies in the early 1970s. Since…
Anemia and Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Critically Ill Patients
150 Anemia and Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Critically Ill Patients Paul C. Hébert, Alan Tinmouth Anemia is a common problem in critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units…
Macrolides
123 Macrolides David T. Bearden The macrolide class of antibiotics is based on the structure of erythromycin, the prototype natural macrolide isolated from Streptomyces erythreus.1 Commonly the term macrolide is…
