CHAPTER 108 Oxygen Therapy, Respiratory Care, and Monitoring VITTORIA COMELLINI, LARA PISANI, and STEFANO NAVA INTRODUCTION Supplemental oxygen is one of the most widely used therapies for people admitted to…
CHAPTER 93 Emergent Pandemic Infections LENNOX K. ARCHIBALD and GAUTAM SUBBAIAH KALYATANDA INTRODUCTION An epidemic of communicable infection that becomes very widespread, affects a whole region or continent, or spreads…
CHAPTER 56 Surgical and Postsurgical Bleeding POUYA J. BENYAMINI and DANNY M. TAKANISHI, JR. INTRODUCTION It is crucial that clinicians who provide care to surgical patients understand the dynamic interplay…
CHAPTER 55 Initial Management of the Critically Ill Trauma Patient REX T. CHUNG and DANIEL R. MARGULIES INTRODUCTION Throughout the years, trauma has consistently been a leading cause of mortality…
CHAPTER 51 Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the ICU ARNO L. ZARITSKY INTRODUCTION Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and advanced life support (ALS) interventions are commonly performed in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting….
Intestinal tissue injury can be induced by the initial ischemia (either from inadequate oxygen content or inadequate flow) or by the generation of oxygen-derived free radicals during reperfusion (1,7). Ischemic…
FIGURE 8.1 A model for translating research evidence into practice. (Adapted from Pronovost PJ, et. al. Translating evidence into practice: a model for large-scale knowledge translation. BMJ 2008;337:963–965, with permission…
FIGURE 9.1 A screen shot of the computerized system demonstrating the use of different information sources to provide a clinical picture. In this screen, information from the microbiology lab (panel…
FIGURE 27.1 Dynamic equilibrium between hydrostatic (capillary) and oncotic pressures. Under normal conditions, there is a balance between the net hydrostatic pressure causing flux from the blood vessels into the…
FIGURE 1.1 Estimated effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the uninsured. (Data from Congressional Budget Office. Insurance coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act. CBO’s March 2015 Baseline….
