to Critical Care Medicine -- Evidence-Based Critical Care -- Classic Critical Care Papers -- Critical Care Medicine 101 -- House Officers’ Guideline 1: Housekeeping -- Admission–Discharge Criteria -- House Officers’ Guidelines 2: Procedures -- Chronic Critical Illness -- Fluid Resuscitation and Volume Assessment -- Sedation and Analgesia -- Sepsis -- Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection -- Antibiotics -- Fever -- Respiratory -- Mechanical Ventilation 101 -- Non-invasive Positive-Pressure Ventilation -- Weaning (Liberation) -- Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia -- Community-Acquired Pneumonia -- Ards -- Aspiration Pneumonia and Pneumonitis -- Deep Venous Thrombosis–Pulmonary Embolism -- COPD Exacerbation -- Acute Severe Asthma -- Pleural Effusions and Atelectasis -- Cardiac -- Hypertensive Crises -- Acute Coronary Syndromes -- ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction -- Arrhythmias -- Acute Decompensated Cardiac Failure -- Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy -- Gastrointestinal -- Nutrition -- Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis -- Chronic Liver Failure -- Alcoholic Hepatitis -- Fulminant Hepatic Failure -- GI Bleeding -- Pancreatitis -- Diarrhea and Constipation -- Metabolic -- Stress Hyperglycemia and Glycemic Control -- Adrenal Insufficiency and CIRCI -- Hypo- and Hypercalcemia -- Electrolyte Disturbances -- Acid–Base Disturbances -- Acute Renal Failure -- Rhabdomyolysis -- Central Nervous System -- Ischemic Strokes and Intracerebral Hemorrhage -- Delirium -- Seizures and Status Epilepticus -- Management of Raised ICP -- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage -- Miscellaneous ICU Topics -- Anemia and RBC Transfusion -- Coagulopathy and FFP Transfusions -- Thrombocytopenia and Platelet Transfusion -- Eclampsia -- Management Issues in the Elderly -- Management Issues in the Obese Patient -- Multi-organ Dysfunction Syndrome -- Therapeutic Hypothermia -- Toxicology -- Alcohol Withdrawal Syndromes -- Serotonin Syndrome -- Radiology -- Pres -- End-of-Life Issues -- What Defines an Intensive Care Unit? Implications for Organizational Structure -- Intrahospital Transport -- Limiting Errors and Avoiding Litigation -- Avoiding Therapeutic Misadventures in the ICU -- The “Devil’s” Medicine Bag -- Words of Wisdom.

This updated and revised edition of the classic bedside pocket reference remains the gold standard in critical care medicine. The new edition maintains Dr. Marik's trademark humor and engaging writing style, while adding numerous references to make this book the most current and thorough treatment of evidence-based critical care available. The handbook enables the clinician to find the evidence to support or refute an intervention and to help choose the most appropriate, cost-effective treatment. The analysis of treatment strategies is presented by organ system, and the handbook also covers miscellaneous ICU topics (such as sedation, toxicology, radiology, and sepsis) based on the most frequently found and difficult to solve problems in ICU patient management.