1: Airway Management
CHAPTER 1Airway Management Michael Kitz Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA OVERALL BOTTOM LINE Airway management is a vital life‐saving skill for the ICU provider….
ANESTHESIA
7: Nutritional Support and Total Parenteral Nutrition
CHAPTER 7Nutritional Support and Total Parenteral Nutrition Rohit R. Gupta and Roopa Kohli‐Seth Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA OVERALL BOTTOM LINE Critically ill patients…
9: Prevention of Complications
CHAPTER 9Prevention of Complications Anthony R. Manasia and Nidhi Kavi Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA OVERALL BOTTOM LINE ICU‐related complications can increase morbidity, mortality,…
2: Sedation and Analgesia
CHAPTER 2Sedation and Analgesia Colin J. Sheehan and Michael Kitz Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA OVERALL BOTTOM LINE Analgesia and sedation are primarily indicated…
The Critically Ill Child
Because critically ill children may occasionally present for emergency surgery, all anesthesiologists should have a working knowledge of the most common critical illnesses and their therapies. In this chapter, we…
Trauma and Burn Management
With approximately 15,000 deaths per year, trauma is the leading cause of death in children over 1 year of age in the United States. Anesthesiologists and anesthetists in nearly every…
Chronic Pain
Pain is considered chronic when it is constant or recurrent and lasts for more than 3 months. It may persist because of ongoing tissue inflammation, as seen in children with…
Analgesic Medications
Insufficient knowledge about the pharmacology of analgesic medications in the pediatric age group has led to inadequate treatment of pediatric pain partly related to the fluctuating pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics properties…
Acute Pain Management
“Acute pain” in the pediatric setting is generally nociceptive pain arising from tissue injury, inflammation, or infection. It is typically most pronounced immediately after the insult and gradually improves as…
Local Anesthetics and Adjuvant Analgesics
Local anesthetics are synthetic derivatives of cocaine, a plant alkaloid obtained from the leaves of the South American coca plant, and the first local anesthetic to be discovered. Cocaine is…
