Principles And Practice Of Critical Care Toxicology

This issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Janice L. Zimmerman, focuses on Toxicology. This is one of four issues each year selected by the series consulting editor, Dr. John Kellum. Articles in this issue include, but are not limited to: Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles for toxicology, Use of extracorporeal techniques in poisonings, Drugs of Abuse, Cardiovascular Drug Toxicity, Anticoagulant and Anti-platelet Drug Toxicity and Psychotropic Agents.

"Building on the previous edition with contributions from internationally renowned experts this book provides a fully comprehensive resource for managing the post emergency/treatment stage of acute poisoning. Chapters incorporate evidence-based paradigms with up-to-date citations from the original medical literature. Topic areas covered include: diagnosis and management of the critically poisoned patient, including pediatric patients and poisoning in pregnancy; toxic syndromes including hepatoxic and pulmonary syndromes as well as poisonings from medications, drugs of abuse, chemical and biological agents. This book is an essential resource for Clinical Toxicologists, Intensivists and Emergency Medicine specialists in training and in practice." - Prové de l'editor.

This critical care toxicology resource details patient care from hospital admission and treatment all the way through stabilization, monitoring, and discharge. It presents practical, state-of-the-art treatment recommendations based on initial and subsequent presentation of symptoms, and describes when it's safe to discharge the patient. Individual sections comprehensively cover general management of the critically poisoned patient, toxic syndromes, poisoning by medications, drugs of abuse, chemical agents, biological toxins, agents of chemical and biological terrorism, and antidotes.

Principles and Practice of Critical Care is a comprehensive reference work by three experienced editors: an intensivist, a cardiothoracic surgeon and an anaesthetist. Together they have compiled 69 chapters--from a wide range of internationally acclaimed experts from Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States--to cover the entire subject of critical-care medicine. This text embodies currently accepted and worldwide standards of critical care. Throughout, the emphasis is on the practical aspects of multiple organ system support, which is generally applicable to the entire range of disease processes in the critically-ill patient. Principles and Practice of Critical Care is first divided into sections covering each organ system. Then special problems and procedures are discussed, including postoperative care and critical-care unit management. Each chapter considers acute system failure in detail: how it is recognised clinically; its underlying pathophysiology; monitoring the course of organ system failure; and principles and methods of physiological, pharmacological and mechanical support of the failing system. Principles and Practice of Critical Care is the largest and most comprehensive work on the subject of critical care.