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Renee D. Stapleton is Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, USA

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For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Critical Care Secrets, Seventh Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. This highly regarded resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style-making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.

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SECTION 1 GENERAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT CARE

1. Glycemic Control in the Intensive Care Unit
2. Early Mobility
3. Sedation and Delirium
4. Pain Management in the Intensive Care Unit
5. Ethics and Palliative Care
6. Fluid Therapy
7. Nutrition in Critically Ill Patients
8. Mechanical Ventilation
9. Noninvasive Ventilation and High Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen
10. Liberation From Mechanical Ventilation: Weaning and Extubation
11. Quality Assurance and Patient Safety in the Intensive Care Unit

SECTION 2 MONITORING
12. Pulse Oximetry Capnography and Blood Gas Analysis
13. Hemodynamic Monitoring
14. Neuromonitoring

SECTION 3 PROCEDURES
15. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
16. Central Lines Arterial Lines Line Infections
17. Critical Care Ultrasound
18. Durable Ventricular Assist Devices
19. Percutaneous Assist Devices
20. Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump
21. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
22. Tracheal Intubation and Airway Management
23. Tracheostomy and Upper Airway Obstruction
24. Chest Tubes/Catheters and Pneumothorax
25. Bronchoscopy
26. Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices CIEDs

SECTION 4 PULMONARY
27. Acute Pneumonia
28. Asthma
29. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
30. Acute Respiratory Failure and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
31. Hemoptysis
32. Venous Thromboembolism and Fat Embolism

SECTION 5 CARDIOLOGY
33. Heart Failure and Valvular Heart Disease
34. Acute Myocardial Infarction
35. Dysrhythmias and Tachyarrhythmias
36. Aortic Dissection
37. Pericardial Disease Pericardial Tamponade and Pericarditis

SECTION 6 INFECTIOUS DISEASE
38. Sepsis and Septic Shock
39. Endocarditis
40. Meningitis and Encephalitis in the Intensive Care Unit
41. Disseminated Fungal Infections
42. Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria
43. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
44. Antimicrobial Stewardship
45. Management of Influenza Virus Infection in the ICU
46. Immunocompromised Host
47. COVID-19

SECTION 7 RENAL DISEASE
48. Hypertensive Crises
49. Acute Renal Failure
50. Renal Replacement Therapy and Rhabdomyolysis
51. Hypokalemia and Hyperkalemia
52. Hyponatremia and Hypernatremia

SECTION 8 GASTROENTEROLOGY
53. Upper and Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding in the Critically Ill Patient
54. Acute Pancreatitis
55. Hepatitis and Cirrhosis

SECTION 9 ENDOCRINOLOGY
56. Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic State
57. Adrenal Insufficiency in the Intensive Care Unit
58. Thyroid Disease in the Intensive Care Unit

SECTION 10 HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY
59. Blood Products and Coagulation
60. Thrombocytopenia and Platelets
61. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

SECTION 11 NEUROLOGY
62. Coma
63. Brain Death
64. Status Epilepticus
65. Stroke and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
66. Guillain-Barré Syndrome GBS and Myasthenia Gravis MG
67. Alcohol Withdrawal

SECTION 12 SURGERY AND TRAUMA
68. Burns and Frostbite
69. Thoracic Trauma Flail Chest and Pulmonary and Myocardial Contusion
70. Acute Abdomen and Peritonitis
71 .Organ Donation

SECTION 13 EMERGENCY MEDICINE
72. Disaster Medicine Bioterrorism and Pandemics
73. Allergy and Anaphylaxis
74. Hypothermia
75. Heat Stroke

SECTION 14 TOXICOLOGY
76. General Approach To Poisonings
77. Analgesics and Antidepressants
78. Toxic Alcohol Poisoning
79. Cardiovascular Medications
80. Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome

SECTION 15 UNIQUE PATIENT POPULATIONS
81. Care of the Critically Ill Pregnant Patient
82. Care of the Patient With Obesity
83. Oncologic Emergencies
84. Post-Intensive Care Syndrome and Chronic Critical Illness
85. Intensive Care Unit Survivors

SECTION 16 EMERGING THERAPIES
86. Sepsis Emerging Therapies