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