Intensive Care

A comprehensive text of intensive care would readily fill the equivalent of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. This is because the diseases treated are both numerous and varied; thus the patient can be medical, surgical, trauma or obstetric. It follows that the sum total of knowledge which needs to be available is truly encyclopaedic. This compact volume represents only a fragment of such information. The contributors were chosen because of their experience and because their methods were well-tried. The text therefore summarizes the best of current therapy and includes the controversial. The contributors come from four countries, adding an international flavour. One topic - The Recovery Room - outside the confines of intensive care has been included for two reasons. The recovery room is an important but neglected aspect of care, and it also seems important to define its relationships with the intensive care unit. It is hoped that the book will help the nurses and doctors involved in intensive care and, therefore, the patient. ERIC SHERWOOD JONES Vll Contributors P. M. ASHWORTH K. CHATTERJEE Department of N . using • Medicine Cardiology Division University of Manchester University of California San Francisco Stop ford Building Cardiovascular Research Institute Oxford Road Manchester M 13 9PT, UK Moffitt Hospital Rm. 1186 San Francisco California 94143, USA S. T. ATHERTON Intensive Care Unit Whiston Hospital E. M. COOKE Prescot Department of Microbiology Merseyside, UK University of Leeds Leeds LS2 91Z, UK B. J. BAIN W. E. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Intravenous feeding....Pages 1-30 Immunology....Pages 31-46 Microbial infection....Pages 47-77 Coagulopathies....Pages 78-113 Shock....Pages 114-128 Blood transfusion....Pages 129-141 Intermittent positive pressure ventilation....Pages 142-178 Respiratory distress syndrome of shock and trauma....Pages 179-191 Head injuries....Pages 192-214 The brain-dead kidney donor: from death to donation....Pages 215-231 Chest injuries....Pages 232-252 Spinal cord injuries....Pages 253-281 Acute myocardial infarction....Pages 282-323 Acute Poisoning....Pages 324-356 Guillain-Barré syndrome....Pages 357-365 Tetanus....Pages 366-387 Botulism....Pages 388-399 The recovery room....Pages 400-431 Training the nurse - UK style....Pages 432-443 Teaching the medical undergraduate....Pages 444-448 Back Matter....Pages 449-464