Key Topics in Management of the Critically Ill
This book is designed to assist clinicians who are new to intensive care by providing information on a range of important and novel topics of relevance in the day-to-day management of critically ill patients. Guidance is given on the appropriate response
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Key Topics in Management of the Critically Ill
Marcela P. Vizcaychipi • Carlos M. Corredor Editors
Key Topics in Management of the Critically Ill
Editors Marcela P. Vizcaychipi Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine Chelsea and Westminster Hospital London UK
Carlos M. Corredor Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive St George’s Hospital London UK
ISBN 978-3-319-22376-6 ISBN 978-3-319-22377-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22377-3
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Foreword
Intensive care medicine is a rapidly evolving specialty. In the last decade, there have been advances in technology, diagnostics, treatment and in our understanding of the pathogenesis of diseases that affect critically ill patients. Management of conditions such as burns, stroke, acute liver failure, thromboembolism and delirium have changed dramatically over the last few years with new diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. These topics are eloquently covered in the relevant chapters in Key Topics in Management of the Critically Ill. Physical and neuropsychological rehabilitation after intensive care has been another area of specific interest to the intensive care community over the last few years and covered in the chapter on Neuropsychological Rehabilitation for Critically Ill Patients. Published literature report approximately 30 % of patients suffer from anxiety, 20 % of patients suffer from depression and up to 60 % of patients suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder after intensive care admission with the associated long-term socio-economic consequences. Whereas historically intensive care physicians were satisfied to leave follow-up care of these patients to the community, there
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