Core Topics in Cardiothoracic Critical Care

Most patients with critical cardiac or thoracic conditions will at some stage pass through the cardiothoracic critical care unit. Critical care presents more complex clinical data than any other area of medicine. Continuous monitoring makes diagnosis easy and further information can be easily obtained via a variety of diagnostic tools. Core Topics in Cardiothoracic Critical Care will guide clinicians from all disciplines in the management of cardiothoracic patients, demystifying the critical care unit and providing the key knowledge in a concise and accessible manner. The central section is a detailed discussion of the management of each physiologic system; additional sections cover admission, general considerations in cardiothoracic critical care, procedure-specific care, discharge and follow-up, structure and organization of the unit, and ethical and legal issues. All aspects of the overall care of the critically ill cardiothoracic patient are explained concisely and comprehensively by experts in the field.

ISBN 0521872839   Pages 564 ISBN13 9780521872836 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 1724 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Hardback   Height (mm) 246 Publication date 13 Mar 2008   Width (mm) 189 Library of Congress RC684   Spine width (mm) 32 DEWEY 616.1028   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		Foreword by A. M. Batchelor
Sect. 1		Admission to Critical Care
1		Who needs cardiothoracic critical care? by M. Hiesmayr and D. Schmidlin		3
2		Scoring systems and prognosis by A. Barker and S. A. M. Nashef		7
3		Admission to critical care: The cardiology patient by S. P. Hoole and P. M. Schofield		13
4		Admission to critical care: Heart failure by J. Parameshwar		20
5		Admission to critical care: The respiratory patient by S. Kaul and L. Howard		29
6		Resuscitation after cardiac surgery by J. H. Mackay		38
7		Transport of the cardiac critical care patient by P. Shirley		45
Sect. 2		General Considerations in Cardiothoracic Critical Care
8		Managing the airway by A. Pearce and S. McCorkell		55
9		Tracheostomy by J. Varley and F. Falter		65
10		Venous access by J. E. Arrowsmith		70
11		Invasive haemodynamic monitoring by P. A. White and A. Klein		80
12		Pulmonary artery catheter by S. Rex and W. F. Buhre		86
13		Minimally invasive methods of cardiac output and haemodynamic monitoring by M. Thavasothy		97
14		Echocardiography and ultrasound by S. T. Runnels and K. Valchanov and R. Hall		103
15		Central nervous system monitoring by M. Leemans and C. R. Bailey		109
16		Point of care testing by Charles Willmott and J. E. Arrowsmith		119
17		Importance of pharmacokinetics by F. Pea and M. Furlanut		125
18		Radiology by N. Screaton and E. Smith		129
Sect. 3		System Management in Cardiothoracic Critical Care
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'... a broad covering of the general and specific management of cardiothoracic intensive care patients and the setting up and running of a critical care unit. This is an area where there are not many specific texts and so it succeeds in finding a place for itself ...' Anaesthesia

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