Pediatric critical care : text and study guide

Pediatric critical care : text and study guide / Steven E. Lucking, Frank A. Maffei, Robert F. Tamburro, Arno Zaritsky, editors.

This extensively updated textbook is a comprehensive study guide that covers pediatric critical care principles and specific disease entities commonly encountered by the pediatric critical care medicine (PCCM) practitioner. Pathophysiologic aspects unique to the pediatric patient are emphasized. The...

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Other Authors: Lucking, Steven E. (Editor), Maffei, Frank A. (Editor), Tamburro, Robert F. (Editor), Zaritsky, Arno (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2021.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Pediatric intensive care.
Critical care medicine.
Pediatrics.
Children.
children (people by age group)
Critical care medicine
Pediatric intensive care
Pediatrics
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Essential Physiologic Principles
  • Genomics and Genetic Predisposition to Critical Illness in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
  • Oxygen Delivery and Oxygen Consumption in Pediatric Critical Care
  • Endothelial Interactions and Coagulation
  • The Inflammatory Response
  • Nutrition in Critical Illness
  • Pharmacology
  • Part II: Respiratory
  • Pulmonary Structure and Function
  • Fundamentals of Gas Exchange and the Assessment of Oxygenation and Ventilation
  • Upper Airway Obstruction
  • Severe Asthma
  • Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
  • Conventional Mechanical Ventilation
  • Non-conventional Mechanical Ventilation
  • Part III: Cardiovascular
  • Hemodynamics
  • Regional Circulations
  • Assessment of Cardiovascular Function
  • Circulatory Failure/Shock
  • Disorders of Cardiac Rhythm
  • Postoperative Cardiac Care
  • Cardiovascular Agents
  • Mechanical and Electrical Myocardial Support
  • Part IV: Central and Peripheral Nervous System
  • Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems: Development, Structure and Function
  • Physiology of Skeletal Muscle and the Neuromuscular Junction
  • Assessment of Neurologic Function
  • Cerebral Resuscitation and Traumatic and Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury
  • Neurological Diseases in Pediatric Critical Care
  • Sedation and Analgesia
  • Neuromuscular Blockade
  • Part V: Renal and Electrolyte
  • Overview, Structure and Function of the Nephron
  • Fluid/Electrolyte/Acid-Base Abnormalities
  • Acute Kidney Injury
  • Renal Replacement Therapies
  • Part VI: Infectious Disease
  • Acute Pulmonary Infections
  • Sepsis
  • Overwhelming Infections in Pediatric Critical Care
  • Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • Part VII: Hematology
  • Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
  • Oncological Critical Care: Considerations in Children
  • Care of the Critically Ill Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Patient
  • Transfusion Medicine
  • Part VIII: Gastrointestinal
  • Acute Liver Injury and Failure in Children
  • Part IX: Endocrine and Metabolic
  • Critical Care Endocrinology
  • Metabolic Crises
  • Part X: Special Topics and Populations
  • Trauma/Burn
  • Toxicology for the Pediatric Intensivist
  • The Approach to the Critically Ill Infant
  • Child Abuse
  • Palliative Care in Pediatric Critical Care
  • Outcome Based Clinical Decision-Making in Pediatric Critical Illness
  • Biostatistics and Evaluating Published Studies.

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