Intensive Care Medicine/toc

Table of contents

Introduction

• Preface
• Suggestions for authors

Overview

• History of Intensive Care Medicine
• The Intensive Care Unit
• Organizational aspects of Intensive Care Medicine
• Outreach care and Early warning systems
• Disease severity assessment systems
• Ethical aspects of Intensive Care Medicine

Clinical Intensive Care

• Clinical Intensive Care Medicine
• Procedures in Intensive Care Medicine
• Organ supportive therapy in Intensive Care Medicine
• Pharmacology in Intensive Care Medicine
• Pathologic basis of Intensive Care requiring Illnesses
• Laboratory Investigations in Intensive Care Medicine
• Diagnostic Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine

Para-clinical Intensive Care

• Research in Intensive Care Medicine
• Quality
• Economics of Intensive Care

Intensive Care organizations

• Intensive Care Medicine Fraternities
• Training programs in Intensive Care Medicine
• Patient support groups
• Intensive Care related foundations

Appendix

• Normal reference values
• Clinical calculators
• Authors and contributors

Index

• Index of definitions
• Index of illustrations