Intensive Care for Emergency Surgeons (Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma)

Description:

This book provides the basis needed for a dialogue between intensivists and emergency surgeons regarding the management and monitoring of acute care surgery (ACS) patients who require Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission. It puts forward a practical approach to the treatment of common emergencies in daily clinical practice, and shares essential information on the treatment and monitoring of hemodynamic, respiratory, metabolic and neurological problems related to acute surgical patients requiring ICU admission. Furthermore, it includes two chapters regarding diagnostic and interventional radiology (fundamentals in daily emergency clinical practice), and addresses important issues such as ethics, mass casualty care, and care in low-resource settings. As such, the book not only offers a valuable guide for all practicing surgeons and intensivists, but is also relevant for residents and fellows who are newcomers to ACS.

Table of Contents:

1. Admission/Discharge Criterion for Acute Care Surgery Patients in the ICU: A General Review of ICU Admission and Discharge Indications

2. Acute Respiratory Failure and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in ACS Patient: What Are the Indications for Acute Intervention?

3. Nuts and Bolts of Ventilator Management: When Is Invasive or Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation Appropriate for Your Patient?

4. Principles of Weaning from Ventilatory Support: When and Why to Wean and When to Consider a Tracheostomy

5. Circulatory Failure and Support in the ACS Patient: What Are the Optimal Methods of Providing Circulatory Monitoring and Support?

6. Brain Injury in the ACS Patient: Nuts and Bolts of Neuromonitoring and Management

7. Renal Failure in the ACS Patient: Understanding Appropriate Fluid Management and Renal Replacement Therapy

8. Acute Hepatic Failure in the ACS Patient: Nuts and Bolts of Pathophysiology and Therapy

9. Shock, Resuscitation, and Fluid Therapy Strategies in Acute Care Surgery: From Pathophysiology to Practice

10. Blood Therapy in the Acute Care Surgery Patient

11. Coagulation Derangements in the ACS Patient: Understanding and Addressing Acute Coagulopathy

12. Nutrition and Metabolic Support of the ACS Patient: Understanding Goals and Ways to Achieve Them

13. Intra-Abdominal Hypertension, Abdominal Compartment Syndrome and the Open Abdomen: Looking Beyond the Obvious to New Understandings in Pathophysiology, Harm-Reduction and Systemic Therapies

14. Infectious Complications: Understanding Appropriate Antibiotic Choice and Utilization

15. Ongoing Intraabdominal Infection Requiring ICU Care: Prioritizing Treatment Decisions

16. Ultrasound in the ICU: Nuts and Bolts for Managing the ACS Patient

17. Nuts and Bolts of Interventional Radiology: A Valuable Adjunct for the Care of the ACS Patients in the ICU

18. Ethical Decisions and Dilemmas in the ACS Patients Requiring ICU: Understanding When to Start and When to Stop

19. Intensive Care for Emergency Surgeons: Mass Casualties

20. The ACS Patient in Resource-Limited Setting: How to Get the Maximum from the Minimum!