Therapeutic Paralysis Khaldoun Faris The most common indications for the use of neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs) in the intensive care unit (ICU) include emergency or elective intubations, optimization of patient–ventilator…
Routine Monitoring of Critically Ill Patients Patrick Troy Nicholas A. Smyrnios Michael D. Howell A key difference between intensive care units (ICUs) and other hospital units is the level of…
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Bruce Greenberg John A. Paraskos History Since the introduction of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), we have been forced to rethink our definitions of life and death. Although sporadic accounts…
Management of Pain in the Critically Ill Patient Armagan Dagal Mario De Pinto W. Thomas Edwards Pain in critically ill patients should be systematically observed and regularly assessed. All means…
Interventional Radiology: Percutaneous Drainage Techniques Brian T. Callahan Salomao Faintuch Felipe B. Collares Over the past decade, image-guided percutaneous drainage procedures have become accepted as safe and effective alternatives to…
Interventional Ultrasound Gisela I. Banauch Paul H. Mayo Introduction Ultrasonography has major applications in critical care medicine. When used at the bedside by the intensivist who is in charge of…
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 Eric W. Jacobson Arthrocentesis is a safe and relatively simple procedure that involves the introduction of a needle into…
Percutaneous Suprapubic Cystostomy Satya Allaparthi K. C. Balaji Philip J. Ayvazian Percutaneous suprapubic cystostomy was described four centuries ago; safety of the procedure was first demonstrated by Garson and Peterson…
Cerebrospinal Fluid Aspiration John P. Weaver This chapter presents guidelines for safe cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) aspiration for the emergency department or the intensive care physician, and provides a basic understanding…
