Chapter 39 Assessment and Monitoring of Respiratory Function Emily L. Dobyns Pearls • Clinical assessment of respiratory function remains invaluable in the diagnosis and management of patients with respiratory failure….
Chapter 79 Structure and Function of Hematopoietic Organs Seth J. Corey, Julie Blatt Pearls • Hematologic intervention is one of most frequent therapeutic modalities in the intensive care unit setting….
Chapter 30 Cardiac Bypass for Repair of Congenital Heart Disease in Infants and Children J. William Gaynor, Darryl H. Berkowitz Pearls • Pediatric patients are not small adults with respect to their…
Chapter 99 Genomic and Proteomic Medicine in Critical Care David Jardine, Mary K. Dahmer, Michael Quasney Pearls • The DNA of two unrelated humans is more than 99.9% identical. •…
Chapter 94 Bacterial Infection, Antimicrobial Use, and Antibiotic-Resistant Organisms in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit John S. Bradley, Christopher R. Cannavino, Deborah E. Franzon, Susan Duthie Pearls • Delays in…
Chapter 65 Central Nervous System Infections Presenting to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Mark E. Rowin, Erin P. Reade, John C. Christenson Pearls • While the term meningitis implies that…
Chapter 83 Critical Illness Involving Children Undergoing Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Transplantation Jennifer A. McArthur, Barbara Bambach, Christine Duncan, Julie-An Talano, Robert T. Tamburro, Jr. Pearls • Patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic…
Chapter 106 Toxidromes and Their Treatment Ashley N. Webb, Prashant Joshi Pearls • When given for a benzodiazepine overdose, flumazenil may precipitate acute withdrawal in the patient who habitually uses…
Chapter 90 The Innate Immune System Rachel S. Agbeko, Mark J. Peters Pearls • Innate immunity provides the front-line “ready-made” response to pathogen invasion. • These same pathways are activated…
