Comprehensive Critical Care: Adult

Part 1: Neurological Critical Care

Chapter 1: Altered Mental Status During Critical Illness: Delirium and Coma
Stuart McGrane, MBChB, MSCI, Pratik P. Pandharipande, MD, MSCI, and Christopher G. Hughes, MD
Chapter 2: Seizures, Stroke, and Other Neurological Emergencies
Fred Rincon, MD, MSc, MBE, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Chapter 3: Critical Care Management of Traumatic Brain Injury
Scott A. Marshall, MD, and Geoffrey S. F. Ling, MD, PhD, FAAN
Chapter 4: Neurological Criteria for Death in Adults
Sherry H-Y. Chou, MD, MMSc, FNCS
Part 2: Cardiovascular Critical Care

Chapter 5: Shock: Classification, Pathophysiological Characteristics, and Management
Antoinette Spevetz, MD, FCCM, FACP, and Joseph E. Parrillo, MD, FACC, MCCM
Chapter 6: Hemodynamic Monitoring
Michael R. Pinsky, MD, CM, Dr h.c., FCCP, MCCM
Chapter 7: Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
Felix Y. Lui, MD, and Kimberly A. Davis, MD, MBA
Chapter 8: Severe Heart Failure, Cardiogenic Shock, and Pericardial Tamponade 
(Including Principles of Intra-aortic Balloon Pumps and Ventricular Assist Devices)
Etienne Gayat, MD, PhD, and Alexandre Mebazaa, MD, PhD
Chapter 9: Sepsis and Septic Shock: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management
Sachin Yende, MD, MS, David T. Huang, MD, MPH, and R. Phillip Dellinger, MD, MCCM
Chapter 10: Hypovolemic and Hemorrhagic Shock
Deepa M. Patel, MD, and Craig M. Coopersmith, MD
Chapter 11: Acute Myocardial Infarction and Acute Coronary Syndromes
Fredric Ginsberg, MD, FACC, FCCP, and Joseph E. Parrillo, MD, FACC, MCCM
Chapter 12: Arrhythmias and Related Devices
Ravi Agarwala, MD, FRCPC, Sean Patrick Whalen, MD, and Natalie Bradford, MD
Chapter 13: Valvular Heart Disease, Acute Aortic Dissection, and Patient Care 
After Cardiac Surgery
Michael H. Wall, MD, FCCM, and Pamela R. Roberts, MD, FCCM
Chapter 14: Hypertensive Crises
Amanda M. Gomes, MD
Chapter 15: Anaphylaxis
Marcos Emanuel Gomes, MD, and Pamela R. Roberts, MD, FCCM, FCCP
Chapter 16: Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Stylianos Voulgarelis, MD, and Sylvia Y. Dolinski, MD, FCCP
Part 3: Respiratory Critical Care

Chapter 17: Airway Management
Nicholas C. Watson, MD, and Stephen O. Heard, MD
Chapter 18: Arterial Blood Gas Interpretation, Capnography, and Pulse Oximetry
Eric Ursprung, MD, and Theofilos P. Matheos, MD
Chapter 19: Acute Respiratory Failure
Debasree Banerjee, MD, MS, Jeffrey Mazer, MD, and Nicholas Ward, MD
Chapter 20: ICU Management of Obstructive Airway Disease
Jennifer A. LaRosa, MD, FCCM, FCCP, and R. Phillip Dellinger, MD, MCCM
Chapter 21: Principles of Mechanical Ventilation
Neil R. MacIntyre, MD
Chapter 22: Pulmonary Embolism and Pulmonary Hypertension in the ICU
Kenneth E. Wood, DO, and Jason A. Stamm, MD
Chapter 23: Hemoptysis, Pneumothorax, and Inhalational Injuries
Scott E. Kopec, MD, FCCP, and Marie T. Mullen, MD
Chapter 24: Immunological Lung Disease
Robert A. Balk, MD
Part 4: Critical Care Infectious Diseases

Chapter 25: Nosocomial Infectious Diseases in the Intensive Care Unit
Ryo Yamamoto, MD, and Ramon F. Cestero, MD, FACS
Chapter 26: Antibiotic, Antifungal, and Antiviral Therapies
Gourang Patel, PharmD, MSc, and Anand Kumar, MD
Chapter 27: Infections in the Immunosuppressed and Immunocompromised Patient
Gloria Vazquez-Grande, MD, and Anand Kumar, MD
Chapter 28: Specific Infections With Implications for Critical Care
Shravan Kethireddy, MD, Anna Chen, MD, Jonathan Perez, MD, and Mary Jane Reed, MD, FCCM
Part 5: Hepatic, Gastrointestinal, Hematologic/Oncologic Disease in the ICU

Chapter 29: Liver Failure, Gastrointestinal Bleeding, and Acute Pancreatitis
Vinod P. Balachandran, MD, and Soumitra R. Eachempati, MD, FACS, FCCM
Chapter 30: Abdominal Problems in the Intensive Care Unit
Adil M. Abuzeid, MBBS, and Nabil M. Issa, MD
Chapter 31: Coagulopathies, Thrombotic Disorders, and Blood Component Therapy
Mario Raul Villalba, MD, FACS, and Martin A. Schreiber, MD, FACS
Chapter 32: Oncological Emergencies
John Crommett, MD, and Joseph L. Nates, MD, MBA, FCCM
Part 6: Renal and Metabolic Disorders in the ICU

Chapter 33: Acute and Chronic Renal Failure and Management (Including Hemodialysis and 
Continuous Renal Replacement Therapies)
Michael L. Bentley, PharmD, FCCM, FCCP, FNAP, and Ashita J. Tolwani, MD, MSc
Chapter 34: Acute Acid-Base Disorders
Alisha Bhatia, MD, and David M. Rothenberg, MD, FCCM
Chapter 35: Electrolyte and Metabolic Abnormalities
Linda L. Maerz, MD, FACS, FCCM
Chapter 36: Hyperglycemia, Hypoglycemia, and Acute Diabetic Emergencies
Gozde Demiralp, MD, and Pamela R. Roberts, MD, FCCM, FCCP
Chapter 37: Pituitary, Adrenal, and Thyroid Diseases in the Critically Ill Patient
Nestor Arita, MD, Jeremy L. Ward, MD, and Paul E. Marik, MD, FCCM, FCCP
Chapter 38: Nutritional Therapies in Critically Ill Patients
Pamela R. Roberts, MD, FCCM, FCCP
Part 7: Environmental and Toxicologic Injury

Chapter 39: Critical Care Management of the Severely Burned Patient
Todd Huzar, MD, and James M. Cross, MD, FACS
Chapter 40: Poisoning and Toxicology in the Critically Ill
Michael Sirimaturos, PharmD, BCNSP, BCCCP, FCCM, Rebeca L. Halfon, BS, PharmD, and 
Janice L. Zimmerman, MD, MCCM, FCCP
Chapter 41: Hypothermia, Hyperthermia, and Near Drowning
Janice L. Zimmerman, MD, MCCM, FCCP
Part 8: Pharmacologic Issues in the ICU

Chapter 42: Sedatives, Analgesics, and Neuromuscular Blockade in the ICU
Quinn A. Czosnowski, PharmD, and Craig B. Whitman, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
Chapter 43: Special Caveats of Drugs Used in Critical Care Medicine
Brian L. Erstad, PharmD, MCCM, and Courtney McKinney, PharmD
Part 9: Surgical and Obstetrical Critical Care

Chapter 44: Solid Organ Transplantation in the ICU
Yatin Mehta, MD, Jaya Sugunaraj, MD, Mark A. Kleman, DO, M. Camilla Bermudez, MD, Heather J. Johnson, PharmD, Patricio Andres Sanchez-Cueva, MD, and Mary Jane Reed, MD, FCCM
Chapter 45: Management of the Severely Injured Trauma Patient
Sherry Sixta, MD, and Rosemary Kozar, MD, PhD
Chapter 46: Critical Care Issues in the Postoperative Period
Christina C. Kao, MD, Tashinga Musonza, MD, Lillian S. Kao, MD, MS, and S. Rob Todd, MD
Chapter 47: Obstetric Critical Care
Jennifer E. Hofer, MD, Karen C. Patterson, MD, and Michael F. O’Connor, MD, FCCM
Part 10: Administrative and Ethical Issues in the Critically Ill

Chapter 48: A Perspective on ICU Administration
Sara R. Gregg, MHA, and Timothy G. Buchman, MD, PhD, MCCM
Chapter 49: Severity of Illness Scoring Systems
Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, PhD, FCCM
Chapter 50: Principles of Statistics and Evidence-Based Medicine
Andrew M. Naidech, MD, MSPH
Chapter 51: Ethical Concerns in the Management of Critically Ill Patients
Fred Rincon, MD, MSc, MBE, FACP, FCCP, FCCM