This handbook is a synopsis of the clinical chapters from Rogers' Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care. Readers will find the core information they need for quick reference and safe practice in the pediatric ICU. The book includes a large number of tables and line drawings.
SECTION HEADINGS
PART ONE EMERGENCY CARE AND ACUTE MANAGEMENT
SECTION I INITIAL STABILIZATION
CH.1 Airway Management
CH.2 Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
CH.3 Transport
CH.4 Invasive Procedures
CH.5 Recognition and Initial Management of Shock
SECTION II ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES
CH. 6 Multiple Trauma
CH. 7 Drowning and Near Drowning: Submersion Injuries
CH. 8 Burns, Electrical Injuries, and Smoke Inhalation
CH.9 Terrorism and Mass Casualty Events
CH.10 Poisoning
CH.11 Thermoregulation
CH.12 Envenomation Syndromes
SECTION III LIFE-SUPPORT TECHNOLOGIES
CH.13 Mechanical Ventilation
CH.14 Inhaled Gases
CH.15 Extracorporeal Life Support
CH.16 Renal Replacement Therapies
CH.17 Blood Products in the PICU
CH.18 Plasmapheresis and Transfusion Therapy
PART TWO CRITICAL CARE ORGAN SYSTEMS
SECTION I RESPIRATORY DISEASE
CH. 19 The Molecular Biology of Acute Lung Injury
CH. 20 Respiratory Physiology
CH. 21 Respiratory Monitoring
CH. 22 Status Asthmaticus
CH. 23 Neonatal Respiratory Failure
CH. 24 Bronchiolitis and Pneumonia
CH. 25 Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
CH. 26 Chronic Respiratory Failure
CH. 27 Sleep and Breathing
SECTION II NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE
CH. 28 Acute Neuromuscular Disease
CH. 29 Chronic Neuromuscular Disease
SECTION III NEUROLOGIC DISEASE
CH. 30 Developmental Neurobiology, Neurophysiology, and the PICU
CH. 31 Molecular Biology of Brain Injury
CH. 32 Evaluation of the Comatose Child
CH. 33 Neurologic Monitoring
CH. 34 Neurologic Imaging
CH. 35 Head and Spinal Cord Trauma
CH. 36 Status Epilepticus
CH. 37 Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke
CH. 38 Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
CH. 39 Metabolic Encephalopathies in Children
CHAPTER 40 Brain Death
SECTION IV CARDIAC DISEASE
CH.41 Cardiac Anatomy
CH.42 Cardiovascular Physiology
CH.43 Cardiorespiratory
SECTION V IMMUNOLOGIC DISEASES
CH.50 Neurohormonal Control in the Immune System
CH.51 The Immune System
CH.52 The Polymorphonuclear
CH.53 The Immune System and Viral Illness in the Critically Ill
SECTION VI INFECTIOUS DISEASES
CH.56 Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy
CH.57 Bacterial Sepsis and Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis
CH.58 Critical Viral InfectionsSECTION VII NUTRITIONAL AND GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS
CH.64 Principles of Nutrition and Metabolism
CH.65 Nutritional Support in the Critically Ill Child
CH.66 The Acute Abdomen
CH.67 Fulminant Hepatic Failure and Transplantation
CH.68 Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation
CH.69 Critical Aspects of Intestinal Disorders
SECTION VIII RENAL, ENDOCRINE, AND METABOLIC DISORDERS
CH.70 Adrenal Dysfunction
CH.71 Disorders of Glucose Homeostasis
CH.72 Disorders of Water, Sodium, and Potassium Homeostasis
CH.73 Disorders of Calcium, Magnesium, and Phosphate
SECTION IX ONCOLOGIC AND HEMATOLOGIC DISORDERS
CH.78 Cancer Therapy: Mechanisms, Toxicity, and Ethics in the PICU
CH.79 Oncologic Emergencies and Complications
CH.80 Hematologic Emergencies
CH.81 Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation
CH.82 Coagulation Issues in the PICU
CH.83 Sickle Cell Disease
