Preface Part I. Basic Principles: 1. Cardiac function, monitoring and oxygen transport I. McConachie 2. Shock I. McConachie 3. Oxygen therapy D. Kelly 4. Fluid therapy in ICU I. McConachie 5. Nutrition I. McConachie 6. Mechanical ventilation I. McConachie 7. Modes of ventilation and ventilatory strategies P. Nightingale 8. Inotropes and vasopressors I. McConachie 9. Antibiotics and infection control N. Randall 10. Sedation and analgesia I. McConachie 11. Transport of critically ill patients I. McConachie Part II. Specific Problems: 12. The surgical patient in the ICU I. McConachie 13. The patient with multiple injuries I. McConachie 14. The patient with cardiac dysfunction D. Roberts 15. The patient with sepsis I. McConachie 16. Acute renal failure R. Kishen 17. Acute respiratory distress syndrome C. Clarke 18. The patient with gastrointestinal problems I. McConachie 19. The comatose patient I. McConachie 20. The critically ill asthmatic S. G. Brear 21. The critically ill diabetic I. McConachie Index.
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