Critical Care , An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine

1st Edition, Volume 43-3 - September 20, 2022
Editors: Gregory A. Schmidt, Jacqueline Kruser
Language: English
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Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Forthcoming Issues
Preface
Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Intensive Care Unit: Applications, Limitations, and the Evolution of Clinical Practice
Key points
Introduction
Training
Basic critical care echocardiography
Advanced critical care echocardiography
Assessment of volume status
Procedural guidance
Lung ultrasonography
Lower extremity deep vein thrombosis studies
Abdominal and retroperitoneal ultrasonography
Competence and credentialing
Quality assurance, quality improvement, and billing
Clinics care points
Supplementary data
Application of Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma in the Intensive Care Unit
Key points
Introduction
Discussion
Summary
Clinics care points
Supplementary data
Capnography for Monitoring of the Critically Ill Patient
Key points
What is the relationship between end-tidal carbon dioxide and cardiac output?
How can capnography be used to predict fluid responsiveness?
What is the role of capnography in managing patients in cardiac arrest?
Can capnography make conscious sedation safer?
Can end-tidal carbon dioxide be used as a surrogate of partial pressure of carbon dioxide?
Summary
Clinics care points
Novel and Rapid Diagnostics for Common Infections in the Critically Ill Patient
Key points
Introduction
Discussion
Summary
Clinics care points
Funding
Disclosure
Pharmacologic Management of Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit
Key points
Introduction
Management of delirium in the intensive care unit
Emerging and possible future treatments
Summary
Clinics care points
Management of the Critically Ill Patient with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Right Heart Failure
Key points
Introduction
Summary
Disclosure
Clinics care points
Caring for the Critically Ill Patient with COVID-19
Key points
Introduction
Epidemiology, outcomes, resource utilization, and disparities
Management
Discussion
Clinics care points
Critical Care of the Lung Transplant Patient
Key points
Introduction to lung transplant
Care of the prelung transplant patient in the intensive care unit
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a bridge to lung transplant
Care of the immediate postlung transplant patient in the intensive care unit
Immunosuppression after lung transplant
Care of the later lung transplant patient in the intensive care unit
Trend: lung transplant for COVID-19
Future directions
Disclosure
Obstetric Disorders and Critical Illness
Key points
Introduction
Physiologic changes in pregnancy most relevant to critical care
Postpartum hemorrhage
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: hypertensive emergencies, preeclampsia, and eclampsia
Hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets (HELLP syndrome)
Acute fatty liver of pregnancy
Amniotic fluid embolism
Peripartum cardiomyopathy
Pulmonary embolism
Covid-19 and ARDS management
Summary
Clinics care points
Advances in Sepsis Care
Key points
Introduction
Definition
Therapies
Summary
Clinics care points
Advances in Ventilator Management for Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Key points
Introduction
Summary
Patient-Ventilator Synchrony
Key points
Introduction
Causes of asynchrony
Harmful effects of asynchrony
Classification of asynchrony
Monitoring patient-ventilator synchrony
Mitigation of asynchrony
Summary
Clinics care points
Extracorporeal Life Support in Respiratory Failure
Key points
Introduction
Summary
Clinics care points
COVID-19 and the Transformation of Intensive Care Unit Telemedicine
Key points
Introduction
Discussion
Summary
Clinics care points
Patient-Centered and Family-Centered Care in the Intensive Care Unit
Key points
Introduction
History and terminology
Measuring and quantifying the problem
Interventions to promote patient-centered and family-centered care
The future of patient-centered and family-centered care
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure statement and funding sources
Survivorship After Critical Illness and Post-Intensive Care Syndrome
Key points
Introduction
Summary
Supporting Professionals in Critical Care Medicine: Burnout, Resiliency, and System-Level Change
Key points
Definitions and background
Measuring the problem of burnout
Burnout in the intensive care unit team
Consequences of burnout
Driving factors for burnout
Evidence-based approaches to combat burnout
Summary and future recommendations
Clinics care points

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