Rogers' Handbook of Pediatric Intensive Care

This handbook is a synopsis of the clinical chapters from Rogers' Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care. Readers will find the core information they need for quick reference and safe practice in the pediatric ICU. The book includes a large number of tables and line drawings.

SECTION HEADINGS

PART ONE EMERGENCY CARE AND ACUTE MANAGEMENT

    SECTION I INITIAL STABILIZATION
    CH.1 Airway Management
    CH.2 Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
    CH.3 Transport
    CH.4 Invasive Procedures
    CH.5 Recognition and Initial Management of Shock

    SECTION II ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES
    CH. 6 Multiple Trauma
    CH. 7 Drowning and Near Drowning: Submersion Injuries
    CH. 8 Burns, Electrical Injuries, and Smoke Inhalation
    CH.9 Terrorism and Mass Casualty Events
    CH.10 Poisoning
    CH.11 Thermoregulation
    CH.12 Envenomation Syndromes

    SECTION III LIFE-SUPPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    CH.13 Mechanical Ventilation
    CH.14 Inhaled Gases
    CH.15 Extracorporeal Life Support
    CH.16 Renal Replacement Therapies
    CH.17 Blood Products in the PICU
    CH.18 Plasmapheresis and Transfusion Therapy

    PART TWO CRITICAL CARE ORGAN SYSTEMS

    SECTION I RESPIRATORY DISEASE
    CH. 19 The Molecular Biology of Acute Lung Injury
    CH. 20 Respiratory Physiology
    CH. 21 Respiratory Monitoring
    CH. 22 Status Asthmaticus
    CH. 23 Neonatal Respiratory Failure
    CH. 24 Bronchiolitis and Pneumonia
    CH. 25 Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
    CH. 26 Chronic Respiratory Failure
    CH. 27 Sleep and Breathing

    SECTION II NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE
    CH. 28 Acute Neuromuscular Disease
    CH. 29 Chronic Neuromuscular Disease

    SECTION III NEUROLOGIC DISEASE
    CH. 30 Developmental Neurobiology, Neurophysiology, and the PICU
    CH. 31 Molecular Biology of Brain Injury
    CH. 32 Evaluation of the Comatose Child
    CH. 33 Neurologic Monitoring
    CH. 34 Neurologic Imaging
    CH. 35 Head and Spinal Cord Trauma
    CH. 36 Status Epilepticus
    CH. 37 Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke
    CH. 38 Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
    CH. 39 Metabolic Encephalopathies in Children
    CHAPTER 40 Brain Death

    SECTION IV CARDIAC DISEASE
    CH.41 Cardiac Anatomy
    CH.42 Cardiovascular Physiology
    CH.43 Cardiorespiratory

    SECTION V IMMUNOLOGIC DISEASES
    CH.50 Neurohormonal Control in the Immune System
    CH.51 The Immune System
    CH.52 The Polymorphonuclear
    CH.53 The Immune System and Viral Illness in the Critically Ill

    SECTION VI INFECTIOUS DISEASES
    CH.56 Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy
    CH.57 Bacterial Sepsis and Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis
    CH.58 Critical Viral InfectionsSECTION VII NUTRITIONAL AND GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS

    CH.64 Principles of Nutrition and Metabolism
    CH.65 Nutritional Support in the Critically Ill Child
    CH.66 The Acute Abdomen
    CH.67 Fulminant Hepatic Failure and Transplantation
    CH.68 Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation
    CH.69 Critical Aspects of Intestinal Disorders

    SECTION VIII RENAL, ENDOCRINE, AND METABOLIC DISORDERS
    CH.70 Adrenal Dysfunction
    CH.71 Disorders of Glucose Homeostasis
    CH.72 Disorders of Water, Sodium, and Potassium Homeostasis
    CH.73 Disorders of Calcium, Magnesium, and Phosphate

    SECTION IX ONCOLOGIC AND HEMATOLOGIC DISORDERS
    CH.78 Cancer Therapy: Mechanisms, Toxicity, and Ethics in the PICU
    CH.79 Oncologic Emergencies and Complications
    CH.80 Hematologic Emergencies
    CH.81 Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation
    CH.82 Coagulation Issues in the PICU
    CH.83 Sickle Cell Disease