Routine Monitoring of Critically Ill Patients Alan Lisbon Michael D. Howell Frederick J. Curley Nicholas A. Smyrnios The ability to intensively, continuously, and routinely monitor both usual vital signs and…
Therapeutic Apheresis: Technical Considerations and Indications in Critical Care Theresa Nester Michael Linenberger Technical Rationale and Instruments Apheresis means to remove. Apheresis instruments are designed to separate whole blood into…
Dialysis Therapy in the Intensive Care Setting Arif Showkat Sergio R. Acchiardo William F. Owen Jr. Overview of Dialysis Modalities Bones can break, muscles can atrophy, glands can loaf, even…
Therapeutic Paralysis J. Matthias Walz Raimis Matulionis Khaldoun Faris Despite the routine use of neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBA) in the intensive care unit (ICU), limited data are currently available to…
Management of pain in the critically ill patient Mario De Pinto W. Thomas Edwards Pain is a major problem for patients hospitalized in intensive care units (ICUs) [1, 2, 3,…
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation John A. Paraskos Alan A. Orquiola History Since the introduction of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), we have been forced to rethink our definitions of life and death. Although sporadic…
Interventional Radiology: Drainage Techniques Young H. Kim Ducksoo Kim Image-guided percutaneous drainage is a safe and widely accepted first-line treatment for infected or symptomatic fluid collections in the body. Image…
Anesthesia for Bedside Procedures Mark Dershwitz When a patient in an intensive care unit (ICU) requires a bedside procedure, it is usually the attending intensivist, as opposed to a consultant…
Aspiration of the Knee and Synovial Fluid Analysis Bonnie J. Bidinger Maria E. Abruzzo Eric W. Jacobson Arthrocentesis is a safe and relatively simple procedure that involves the introduction of…
Percutaneous Suprapubic Cystostomy Philip J. Ayvazian Percutaneous suprapubic cystotomy is used to divert urine from the bladder when standard urethral catheterization is impossible or undesirable [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10]. The procedure…
