Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Abdominal Trauma: Investigations
- Accessing the Thorax
- Acid-Base
- Acute Renal Failure (see also table in ‘Low urine output’)
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
- Agitation and Sedation
- Airway Management
- Analgesia
- Aortic Dissection
- Atelectasis
- Blood Pressure Monitoring
- Blood Products
- Blood Transfusion
- Brainstem Death and Organ Donation
- Bronchiectasis
- Burns
- Calcium Balance
- Cardiac Assessment
- Cardiogenic Shock
- Central Line Insertion
- Chronic Renal Failure
- Coagulation Defects
- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)
- ECG I – Basic Concepts
- ECG II – Rate and Rhythm Disturbances
- Endotracheal Intubation
- Enteral Nutrition
- Extubation and Weaning
- Fat Embolism Syndrome
- Flail Chest
- Fluid Therapy
- Haemorrhagic Shock
- Head Injury I – Physiology
- Head Injury II – Pathophysiology
- Head Injury III – Principles of Management
- Inotropes and Circulatory Support
- ITU Admission Criteria
- Jugular Venous Pulse (JVP)
- Lactic Acidosis
- Low Urine Output State
- Magnesium Balance
- Mechanical Ventilatory Support
- Metabolic Acidosis (see also ‘Acid-base’ and and ‘Lactic acidosis’)
- Metabolic Alkalosis
- Nutrition: Basic Concepts (see also parenteral nutrition & TPN)
- Oxygen: Basic Physiology
- Oxygen Therapy
- Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
- Potassium Balance
- Pulmonary Artery Catheter (see also ‘Central line insertion’)
- Pulmonary Thromboembolism
- Pulse Oximetry
- Renal Replacement Therapy
- Respiratory Assessment
- Respiratory Failure (see also ‘Oxygen therapy’)
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Septic Shock and Multi-Organ Failure
- Sodium and Water Balance
- Spinal Injury
- Systemic Response to Trauma
- Tracheostomy
- Transfer of the Critically Ill
- Tube Thoracostomy (Chest Drain)
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Cardiac Assessment
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Abdominal Trauma: Investigations
- Accessing the Thorax
- Acid-Base
- Acute Renal Failure (see also table in ‘Low urine output’)
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
- Agitation and Sedation
- Airway Management
- Analgesia
- Aortic Dissection
- Atelectasis
- Blood Pressure Monitoring
- Blood Products
- Blood Transfusion
- Brainstem Death and Organ Donation
- Bronchiectasis
- Burns
- Calcium Balance
- Cardiac Assessment
- Cardiogenic Shock
- Central Line Insertion
- Chronic Renal Failure
- Coagulation Defects
- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)
- ECG I – Basic Concepts
- ECG II – Rate and Rhythm Disturbances
- Endotracheal Intubation
- Enteral Nutrition
- Extubation and Weaning
- Fat Embolism Syndrome
- Flail Chest
- Fluid Therapy
- Haemorrhagic Shock
- Head Injury I – Physiology
- Head Injury II – Pathophysiology
- Head Injury III – Principles of Management
- Inotropes and Circulatory Support
- ITU Admission Criteria
- Jugular Venous Pulse (JVP)
- Lactic Acidosis
- Low Urine Output State
- Magnesium Balance
- Mechanical Ventilatory Support
- Metabolic Acidosis (see also ‘Acid-base’ and and ‘Lactic acidosis’)
- Metabolic Alkalosis
- Nutrition: Basic Concepts (see also parenteral nutrition & TPN)
- Oxygen: Basic Physiology
- Oxygen Therapy
- Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
- Potassium Balance
- Pulmonary Artery Catheter (see also ‘Central line insertion’)
- Pulmonary Thromboembolism
- Pulse Oximetry
- Renal Replacement Therapy
- Respiratory Assessment
- Respiratory Failure (see also ‘Oxygen therapy’)
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Septic Shock and Multi-Organ Failure
- Sodium and Water Balance
- Spinal Injury
- Systemic Response to Trauma
- Tracheostomy
- Transfer of the Critically Ill
- Tube Thoracostomy (Chest Drain)
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- Surgical Critical Care Vivas , pp. 66 - 67Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002