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Critical Care Secrets

  • 7 Edición - 7 de abril de 2026
  • Última edición
  • Autores: Renee D. Stapleton, Lorenzo Berra
  • Idioma: Inglés

For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for qu… Leer más

Descripción

For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Critical Care Secrets, Seventh Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style—making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.

Puntos claves

  • The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time – succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective
  • Fully revised and updated throughout, covering all aspects of today’s practice of critical care, including anatomy, physiology, immunology, and inflammation—fundamentally important topics for in-training and practicing professionals
  • New chapters on Antibiotic Stewardship and COVID-19
  • Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams
  • Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime
  • Written and fully updated by clinical and thought leaders in critical care who have contributed chapters in their areas of expertise
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

De interès para

Medical students; residents, practitioners

Índice

SECTION 1 GENERAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT CARE

1. Glycemic Control in the Intensive Care Unit

2. Early Mobility

3. Sedation and Delirium

4. Pain Management in the Intensive Care Unit

5. Ethics and Palliative Care

6. Fluid Therapy

7. Nutrition in Critically Ill Patients

8. Mechanical Ventilation

9. Noninvasive Ventilation and High Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen

10. Liberation From Mechanical Ventilation: Weaning and Extubation

11. Quality Assurance and Patient Safety in the Intensive Care Unit
SECTION 2 MONITORING

12. Pulse Oximetry, Capnography, and Blood Gas Analysis

13. Hemodynamic Monitoring

14. Neuromonitoring
SECTION 3 PROCEDURES

15. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

16. Central Lines, Arterial Lines, Line Infections

17. Critical Care Ultrasound

18. Durable Ventricular Assist Devices

19. Percutaneous Assist Devices

20. Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump

21. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

22. Tracheal Intubation and Airway Management

23. Tracheostomy and Upper Airway Obstruction

24. Chest Tubes/Catheters and Pneumothorax

25. Bronchoscopy

26. Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices (CIEDs)
SECTION 4 PULMONARY

27. Acute Pneumonia

28. Asthma

29. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

30. Acute Respiratory Failure and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

31. Hemoptysis

32. Venous Thromboembolism and Fat Embolism
SECTION 5 CARDIOLOGY

33. Heart Failure and Valvular Heart Disease

34. Acute Myocardial Infarction

35. Dysrhythmias and Tachyarrhythmias

36. Aortic Dissection

37. Pericardial Disease (Pericardial Tamponade and Pericarditis)
SECTION 6 INFECTIOUS DISEASE

38. Sepsis and Septic Shock

39. Endocarditis

40. Meningitis and Encephalitis in the Intensive Care Unit

41. Disseminated Fungal Infections

42. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria

43. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections

44. Antimicrobial Stewardship

45. Management of Influenza Virus Infection in the ICU

46. Immunocompromised Host

47. COVID-19
SECTION 7 RENAL DISEASE

48. Hypertensive Crises

49. Acute Renal Failure

50. Renal Replacement Therapy and Rhabdomyolysis

51. Hypokalemia and Hyperkalemia

52. Hyponatremia and Hypernatremia
SECTION 8 GASTROENTEROLOGY

53. Upper and Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding in the Critically Ill Patient

54. Acute Pancreatitis

55. Hepatitis and Cirrhosis
SECTION 9 ENDOCRINOLOGY

56. Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic State

57. Adrenal Insufficiency in the Intensive Care Unit

58. Thyroid Disease in the Intensive Care Unit
SECTION 10 HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY

59. Blood Products and Coagulation

60. Thrombocytopenia and Platelets

61. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
SECTION 11 NEUROLOGY

62. Coma

63. Brain Death

64. Status Epilepticus

65. Stroke and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

66. Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) and Myasthenia Gravis (MG)

67. Alcohol Withdrawal
SECTION 12 SURGERY AND TRAUMA

68. Burns and Frostbite

69. Thoracic Trauma (Flail Chest, and Pulmonary and Myocardial Contusion)

70. Acute Abdomen and Peritonitis

71. Organ Donation
SECTION 13 EMERGENCY MEDICINE

72. Disaster Medicine, Bioterrorism, and Pandemics

73. Allergy and Anaphylaxis

74. Hypothermia

75. Heat Stroke
SECTION 14 TOXICOLOGY

76. General Approach To Poisonings

77. Analgesics and Antidepressants

78. Toxic Alcohol Poisoning

79. Cardiovascular Medications

80. Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
SECTION 15 UNIQUE PATIENT POPULATIONS

81. Care of the Critically Ill Pregnant Patient

82. Care of the Patient With Obesity

83. Oncologic Emergencies

84. Post–Intensive Care Syndrome and Chronic Critical Illness

85. Intensive Care Unit Survivors
SECTION 16 EMERGING THERAPIES

86. Sepsis: Emerging Therapies

Reseñas

Review of the previous edition:
"Teachers and their students will find this book edifying and enjoyable. This edition has been appropriately enhanced from previous editions. For example, the considerations related to obesity are a welcome addition." --David J. Dries, MD (University of Minnesota Medical School)

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 7
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 15 de mayo de 2026
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los autores

RS

Renee D. Stapleton

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, USA

LB

Lorenzo Berra

Afiliaciones y experiencia
Anesthesiologist and Critical Care Physician, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Medical Director of Respiratory Care, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.