Managing the Suicidal Patient in the Intensive Care Unit
Managing the Suicidal Patient in the Intensive Care Unit Saori A. Murakami Hoa Thi Lam The assessment of the suicidal patient is a significant challenge for any intensive care team….
Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in the Intensive Care Unit Patient
Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in the Intensive Care Unit Patient Edith S. Geringer John Querques Meghan S. Kolodziej Tuesday E. Burns Theodore A. Stern Intense emotions are evoked routinely…
Diagnosis and Treatment of Anxiety in the Intensive Care Unit Patient
Diagnosis and Treatment of Anxiety in the Intensive Care Unit Patient Shelley A. Holmer Robert M. Tighe Anxiety is a normal, adaptive biological response to threat. It occurs when a…
Dermatology in the Intensive Care Unit
Dermatology in the Intensive Care Unit Nikki A. Levin Dori Goldberg Lauren Alberta-Wszolek Megan Bernstein Alexis C. Perkins Introduction Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) often present with cutaneous…
Diagnosis and Treatment of Agitation and Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit Patient
Diagnosis and Treatment of Agitation and Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit Patient Jason P. Caplan … patients are attacked with insomnolency, so that the disease is not concocted; they…
Vasculitis in the Intensive Care Unit
Vasculitis in the Intensive Care Unit Paul F. Dellaripa Donough Howard The vasculitides are a group of disorders characterized by the presence of destructive inflammation in vessel walls [1,2,3,4]. The…
Anaphylaxis
Anaphylaxis Frederic F. Little Helen M. Hollingsworth Anaphylaxis is the most severe and potentially fatal form of the immediate hypersensitivity reactions. The term anaphylaxis (antiphylaxis) is derived from the Greek…
Rheumatologic Diseases in the Intensive Care Unit
Rheumatologic Diseases in the Intensive Care Unit Nancy Y.N. Liu Judith A. Stebulis Patients with established rheumatologic diseases are rarely admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) because of their…
Disease-Specific Nutrition
Disease-Specific Nutrition Mickey M. Ott Bryan R. Collier Douglas Seidner Introduction In the critically ill patient, the constant barrage of multiple physiologic derangements quickly leads to malnutrition. The hypermetabolic response…
Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition in the Intensive Care Unit
Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition in the Intensive Care Unit David F. Driscoll Bruce R. Bistrian Nutritional and metabolic support during acute illness is an integral part of the clinical care…
