Toxicology
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Toxicology represent a clinical dilemma for clinicians worldwide and impart a diagnostic challenge, particularly in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting. A poisoned patient typically cannot…
Ethics, Death, and Organ Donation
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Ethics is a moral code of what we believe to be universally accepted principles of rightness and wrongness that influences our medical decisions. Ever-advancing technology and…
Hypothermia and Hyperthermia
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Normal body temperature changes during the course of the day and is regulated by the thermoregulatory center in the anterior hypothalamus. The normal temperature at 6…
Biostatistics
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen We are in an era of evidence-based medicine, with an exponentially increasing information base arising from descriptive and interventional studies. Clinicians are required to use this…
Acute Kidney Injury and Renal Replacement Therapy
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The incidence of dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury (AKI-D) has increased in the past decade in the United States. From 2000 to 2009, there were 1.09 million…
Transplantation
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Organ transplantation is an established treatment for patients with a wide variety of end-stage diseases. It is essential for physicians to familiarize themselves with the field…
Surgical Intensive Care Unit
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Surgical procedures constitute a sudden insult to the body, which can result in a myriad of life-threatening complications.1 While most postoperative complications occur 1 to 3…
Status Epilepticus
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Acute seizures are common and are defined as a transient occurrence of signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain.1…
Mechanical Ventilation
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen This chapter will discuss the principles of mechanical ventilation, indications, modes of mechanical ventilation, weaning and spontaneous breathing trials, tracheostomy, complications of mechanical ventilation, special situations,…
