Intensive Care for Emergency Surgeons

Chapter 1 Admission/Discharge Criterion for Acute Care Surgery Patients in the ICU: A General Review of ICU Admission and Discharge Indications

Chapter 2 Acute Respiratory Failure and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in ACS Patient: What Are the Indications for Acute Intervention?

Chapter 3 Nuts and Bolts of Ventilator Management: When Is Invasive or Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation Appropriate for Your Patient?

Chapter 4 Principles of Weaning from Ventilatory Support: When and Why to Wean and When to Consider a Tracheostomy

Chapter 5 Circulatory Failure and Support in the ACS Patient: What Are the Optimal Methods of Providing Circulatory Monitoring and Support?

Chapter 6 Brain Injury in the ACS Patient: Nuts and Bolts of Neuromonitoring and Management

Chapter 7 Renal Failure in the ACS Patient: Understanding Appropriate Fluid Management and Renal Replacement Therapy

Chapter 8 Acute Hepatic Failure in the ACS Patient: Nuts and Bolts of Pathophysiology and Therapy

Chapter 9 Shock, Resuscitation, and Fluid Therapy Strategies in Acute Care Surgery: From Pathophysiology to Practice

Chapter 10 Blood Therapy in the Acute Care Surgery Patient

Chapter 11 Coagulation Derangements in the ACS Patient: Understanding and Addressing Acute Coagulopathy

Chapter 12 Nutrition and Metabolic Support of the ACS Patient: Understanding Goals and Ways to Achieve Them

Chapter 13 Intra-Abdominal Hypertension, Abdominal Compartment Syndrome and the Open Abdomen: Looking Beyond the Obvious to New Understandings in Pathophysiology, Harm-Reduction and Systemic Therapies

Chapter 14 Infectious Complications: Understanding Appropriate Antibiotic Choice and Utilization

Chapter 15 Ongoing Intraabdominal Infection Requiring ICU Care: Prioritizing Treatment Decisions

Chapter 16 Ultrasound in the ICU: Nuts and Bolts for Managing the ACS Patient

Chapter 17 Nuts and Bolts of Interventional Radiology: A Valuable Adjunct for the Care of the ACS Patients in the ICU

Chapter 18 Ethical Decisions and Dilemmas in the ACS Patients Requiring ICU: Understanding When to Start and When to Stop

Chapter 19 Intensive Care for Emergency Surgeons: Mass Casualties

Chapter 20 The ACS Patient in Resource-Limited Setting: How to Get the Maximum from the Minimum!