Resuscitation and General Topics -- Supplemental Oxygen Therapy -- Airway Management in the Intensive Care Unit -- Vascular Cannulation -- Fluid Resuscitation -- Vasoactive Amines and Inotropic Agents -- Shock -- Hemodynamic Monitoring -- Acid—Base Disorders -- Analgesia and Sedation -- Neuromuscular Blocking Agents -- Optimization of the High-Risk Surgical Patient -- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation -- Neurocritical Care -- Management of Closed Head Injury -- Spinal Cord Injuries -- Ischemic Stroke -- Hemorrhagic Stroke -- Status Epilepticus -- Critical Illness Polyneuropathy and Myopathy -- Cardiology -- Management of Hypertension in the Perioperative Period -- Postoperative Myocardial Infarction -- Management of Postoperative Arrhythmias -- Pulmonary Medicine -- Acute Respiratory Failure -- Mechanical Ventilation -- Venous Thromboembolism -- Fat Embolism Syndrome -- Venous Air Embolism -- Infectious Diseases, Sepsis, MODS -- Sepsis -- Vascular Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections -- Pneumonia -- Intra-abdominal Sepsis -- Evaluation of the Febrile Patient in the ICU -- Antimicrobial Use in Surgical Intensive Care -- Hematology -- Coagulation Abnormalities in the Critically Ill -- Blood Products -- Metabolism and Nutrition -- Hyperglycemia in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit -- Adrenal Insufficiency -- Nutrition Support in Intensive Care -- Nephrology and Electrolytes -- Acute Kidney Injury -- Renal Replacement Therapy -- Disorders of Electrolytes -- Gastroenterology -- Gastrointestinal Bleeding -- Acute Pancreatitis -- Surgery, Trauma, and Transplantation -- Trauma -- Burns -- The Abdominal Compartment Syndrome -- Rhabdomyolysis -- Postoperative Care of the Cardiac Surgical Patient -- Postoperative Care Following Major Vascular Surgery -- Postoperative Care After Bariatric Surgery -- Care of the Organ Donor -- Postoperative Care of the Heart Transplant Patient -- Postoperative Care of the Lung-Transplant Patient -- Postoperative Care of the Liver-Transplant Patient -- Postoperative Care of the Pancreas-Transplant Recipient -- Additional Topics -- Management of the Critically Ill Geriatric Patient -- Alcohol Withdrawal in the Surgical Patient: Prevention and Treatment -- Ethics and the End-of-Life Care -- Scoring Systems and Outcome Prediction -- Improving the Intensive Care Unit -- Continuing Education in Critical Care Medicine -- Erratum to: Surgical Intensive Care Medicine, Second Edition.

This second edition of the popular "Surgical Intensive Care Medicine" textbook has been specifically designed to be a practical reference for medical students and house officers to help manage the critically ill surgical patient. The first section is titled “Resuscitation” and exposes the reader to a condensed version of generic topics in primary intensive care medicine. The sections that follow have been categorized according to medical and surgical subspecialties and cover the most germane of problems encountered in a tertiary surgical intensive care unit. For the second edition, the editors and authors have thoroughly revised every chapter, with the same evidence-based orientation as the first edition. The chapter authors are experts from around the world, bringing the multi-disciplinary nature critical practice and the necessary diversity of opinion and approach. This edition is more heavily illustrated to elucidate complex concepts–operative photos, imaging, and clinical illustrations abound.