Critical Care Handbook of the Massachussetts General Hospital

A practical guide to medical and surgical critical care. It presents hospital-tested protocols that reflect some of the most advanced critical care practices. It includes chapters on disaster preparedness in the ICU, quality improvement and prophylaxis, non-antibiotic therapies for sepsis, and use of ultrasound in the ICU.

Written by the multidisciplinary intensive care unit staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Fifth Edition of this best-selling handbook is a practical, complete, and current guide to medical and surgical critical care. In a user-friendly outline format designed for rapid reference, this pocket-sized book presents reliable, hospital-tested protocols that reflect today's most advanced critical care practices. This edition includes new chapters on disaster preparedness in the ICU, quality improvement and prophylaxis, non-antibiotic therapies for sepsis, and use of ultrasound in the ICU. An appendix provides supplemental drug information.

I: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
1: Hemodynamic Monitoring Erik Kistler &
Luca Bigatello
2: Respiratory Monitoring Ettore Crimi &
Dean Hess
3: Use of Ultrasound in the ICU Robin Guillory &
Marc de Moya
4: Airway Management
Jonathan Charnin, Robert Goulet &
Richard Pino
5: Principles of Mechanical Ventilation Claudia Crimi &
Dean Hess
6: Hemodynamic Management Jonathan Fox &
Edward Bittner
7: Sedation &
Analgesia Houman Amirfarzan, Ulrich Schmidt &
Luca Bigatello
8: Fluids, Electrolytes &
Acid-Base Management Cosmin Gauran &
David Steele
9: Critical Care of the Trauma Patient Jeffrey Ustin &
Hasan Alam
10: Critical Care of the Neurologic Patient Kevin Sheth &
Lee Schwamm
11: Nutrition Elizabeth Sailhamer &
Hasan Alam
12: Infectious Disease: General Considerations Laura Leduc &
Judith Hellman
13: Quality Improvement &
Prophylaxis
Karsten Bartels &
Ulrich Schmidt
14: Ethical &
Legal Issues in ICU Practice
Rae Allain &
Sharon Brackett
15: Evidence-Based Practice &
Basic Statistics in Critical Care
Ala Nozari, H. Thomas Stelfox &
Edward Bittner
16: Transport of the ICU Patient
Emily Apsell &
Michael Fitzsimons
II: SPECIFIC CONSIDERATIONS
17: Coronary Artery Disease
Corry 'Jeb' Kucik &
Michael Fitzsimons
18: Valvular Heart Disease
Jonathan Bloom &
Theodore Alston
19: Cardiac Dysrhythmias
Cosmin Gauran &
Jagmeet Singh
20: The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Kathrin Allen &
Luca Bigatello
21: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease &
Asthma
Robert Owens &
Fiona Gibbons
22: Pulmonary Embolism &
Deep Venous Thrombosis
B. Taylor Thompson
23: Discontinuation of Mechanical Ventilation
Bishr Haydar &
Jean Kwo
24: Acute Kidney Injury
Beverly Newhouse
25: Liver Dysfunction Daniel Johnson &
William Benedetto
26: Coagulopathy &
Hypercoagulability Lorenzo Berra &
Rae Allain
27: Acute Gastrointestinal Diseases Eugene Fukudome &
Jean Kwo
28: Endocrine Disorders &
Glucose Management Steven Russell &
Taylor Thompson
29: Infectious Diseases: Specific Considerations Aranya Bagchi &
Judith Hellman
30: Non-Antibiotic Therapies for Sepsis
Anahat Dhillon &
Edward Bittner
31: Stroke, Seizures &
Encephalopathy
Dorothea Strozyk &
Lee Schwamm
32: Acute Weakness
David Greer &
Edward George
33: Drug Overdose, Poisoning &
Adverse Drug Reactions
Susan Wilcox &
Richard Pino
34: Adult &
Pediatric Resuscitation
Arthur Tokarczyk &
Richard Pino
35: Transfusion Medicine
Jeffrey Ustin &
Hasan Alam
36: Neurological Trauma
Sherry Chou &
Marc de Moya
37: The Burned Patient
Nicolas Melo &
Rob Sheridan
38: Disaster Preparedness in the ICU
Todd Seigel &
Edward George
39: ICU Care After Vascular Surgery
Ross Blank &
Rae Allain
40: ICU Care After Thoracic Surgery
Kathrin Allen, Henning Gaissert &
Luca Bigatello
41: ICU Care Following Liver, Kidney &
Lung Transplantation
Jason Wertheim &
William Benedetto
42: ICU Care of the Obese Patient
Jeremy Goldfarb &
Jean Kwo
43: The Intensivist Outside the ICU
Edward George &
Edward Bittner
44: Obstetric Critical Care
Amy Ortman &
Richard Pino
APPENDIX
A: Supplemental Drug Information