Current Concepts In Adult Critical Care

Current Concepts in Adult Critical Care offers cutting-edge information on the latest issues facing ICU practitioners. It is updated annually and is used as a companion to the Current Concepts course held each year at the Critical Care Congress. Each chapter focuses on clinical challenges immediately pertinent to the critical care practitioner. Current Concepts in Adult Critical Care includes a range of study tools such as learning objectives, key terms, and a list of current references in bibliographic form.

Section 1: Respiratory System 1. Current Approach to Weaning: Role of Ultrasound and Biomarkers 2. Ventilation-induced Lung Injury: Ergotrauma 3. Transpulmonary Pressure: Physiology and Implications at Bedside 4. Nebulized Drug Delivery: A Contemporary Review Section 2: Hemodynamics 5. Noninvasive Hemodynamic Monitoring as a Tool: Current Practice and Evidence 6. The Choice of Vasopressor in Shock: Current Evidence 7. Best Papers of the Decade on Shock and Hemodynamic Monitoring 8. Personalized Hemodynamic Targets: The Need of the Hour? Section 3: Infections and Antimicrobials 9. Looking Beyond Antimicrobials: Newer Concepts and Technologies 10. Emerging Choices for Resistant Infections 11. Biomarkers in Sepsis: What to Expect in Future? 12. Critical Appraisal of Surviving Sepsis Guidelines 2021 Section 4: Hematology 13. Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Syndrome: Increasing Relevance to the Intensivist and All about it 14. Expanding Role of Rotational Thromboelastometry in Critical Care: What to Expect 15. Current Evidence on Transfusion Strategies in ICU 16. Update on Neutropenic Sepsis Section 5: Organizational Issues 17. Lessons Learned: Role of Critical Care Professionals Post COVID-19 Pandemic 18. Big Data Analysis and AI: How can Intensive Care Benefit? 19. Post-ICU Follow-up: What to Look for and How to Schedule? 20. Communication in ICU Using IT Tools

This clinical casebook provides a comprehensive yet concise state-of-the-art review of adult critical care medicine. Presented in a case-based format, each case focuses on a scenario commonly encountered with an adult patient in the ICU. Case scenarios include management of seizures and acute intracranial hypertension, sepsis, liver failure, brain death, bleeding and thrombosis, and treating hospital acquired infections in the ICU. Written by experts in the field, Adult Critical Care Medicine: A Clinical Casebook is a valuable resource for critical care specialists and practitioners who treat adult patients in critical care settings.