**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Critical Care**
Offering essential, evidence-based practice guidelines specifically for the critical care setting, ICU Quick Drug Guide contains up-to-date information in a quick-access format. This portable handbook provides fast, accurate drug therapy information needed at the point of care, including expert advice throughout to help clinicians determine optimal pharmacological therapy.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Inside front cover - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Dedication - p. iii 7. Foreword - p. iii 8. About the author - p. iii 9. Preface - p. iii 10. Contents - p. iii 11. SECTION 1: CARDIOVASCULAR CRITICAL CARE - p. iii 12. List of Illustrations - p. iii 13. List of Tables - p. iii 14. Chapter 1: Acute coronary syndromes - p. iii 15. Chapter 2: Acutely decompensated heart failure (ADHF) - p. 17 16. Chapter 3: Adult advanced cardiovascular life support - p. 25 17. Chapter 4: Anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter - p. 39 18. Chapter 5: Hypertensive crisis - p. 46 19. SECTION 2: ENDOCRINE, GASTROINTESTINAL, AND HEPATIC DISORDERS - p. 52 20. Chapter 6: Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS) - p. 52 21. Chapter 7: Other endocrine emergencies - p. 64 22. Chapter 8: Gastroenterology - p. 71 23. Chapter 9: Severe acute pancreatitis and liver failure - p. 84 24. SECTION 3: INFECTIOUS DISEASES - p. 94 25. Chapter 10: Abdominal infections - p. 94 26. Chapter 11: Other infections - p. 108 27. Chapter 12: Sepsis and septic shock - p. 163 28. SECTION 4: NEUROCRITICAL CARE - p. 177 29. Chapter 13: Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) - p. 177 30. Chapter 14: Other neurocritical care - p. 188 31. Chapter 15: Status epilepticus - p. 193 32. SECTION 5: PULMONARY DISORDERS - p. 199 33. Chapter 16: Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation - p. 199 34. Chapter 17: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (group 1 pulmonary hypertension) - p. 214 35. SECTION 6: MISCELLANEOUS - p. 234 36. Chapter 18: Acute alcohol and drug poisoning - p. 234 37. Chapter 19: Anaphylaxis - p. 256 38. Chapter 20: Drug-induced hyperthermia - p. 262 39. Chapter 21: Fluids and electrolyte disorders - p. 267 40. Chapter 22: Pain, agitation, delirium, and neuromuscular blockade in the intensive care unit (ICU) - p. 276 41. Chapter 23: Rapid sequence induction - p. 295 42. Chapter 24: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) - p. 298 43. Appendix - p. 320 44. Index - p. 320 45. Inside back cover - p. 320
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Critical Care**
Offering essential, evidence-based practice guidelines specifically for the critical care setting, ICU Quick Drug Guide contains up-to-date information in a quick-access format. This portable handbook provides fast, accurate drug therapy information needed at the point of care, including expert advice throughout to help clinicians determine optimal pharmacological therapy.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Inside front cover - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Dedication - p. iii 7. Foreword - p. iii 8. About the author - p. iii 9. Preface - p. iii 10. Contents - p. iii 11. SECTION 1: CARDIOVASCULAR CRITICAL CARE - p. iii 12. List of Illustrations - p. iii 13. List of Tables - p. iii 14. Chapter 1: Acute coronary syndromes - p. iii 15. Chapter 2: Acutely decompensated heart failure (ADHF) - p. 17 16. Chapter 3: Adult advanced cardiovascular life support - p. 25 17. Chapter 4: Anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter - p. 39 18. Chapter 5: Hypertensive crisis - p. 46 19. SECTION 2: ENDOCRINE, GASTROINTESTINAL, AND HEPATIC DISORDERS - p. 52 20. Chapter 6: Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS) - p. 52 21. Chapter 7: Other endocrine emergencies - p. 64 22. Chapter 8: Gastroenterology - p. 71 23. Chapter 9: Severe acute pancreatitis and liver failure - p. 84 24. SECTION 3: INFECTIOUS DISEASES - p. 94 25. Chapter 10: Abdominal infections - p. 94 26. Chapter 11: Other infections - p. 108 27. Chapter 12: Sepsis and septic shock - p. 163 28. SECTION 4: NEUROCRITICAL CARE - p. 177 29. Chapter 13: Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) - p. 177 30. Chapter 14: Other neurocritical care - p. 188 31. Chapter 15: Status epilepticus - p. 193 32. SECTION 5: PULMONARY DISORDERS - p. 199 33. Chapter 16: Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation - p. 199 34. Chapter 17: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (group 1 pulmonary hypertension) - p. 214 35. SECTION 6: MISCELLANEOUS - p. 234 36. Chapter 18: Acute alcohol and drug poisoning - p. 234 37. Chapter 19: Anaphylaxis - p. 256 38. Chapter 20: Drug-induced hyperthermia - p. 262 39. Chapter 21: Fluids and electrolyte disorders - p. 267 40. Chapter 22: Pain, agitation, delirium, and neuromuscular blockade in the intensive care unit (ICU) - p. 276 41. Chapter 23: Rapid sequence induction - p. 295 42. Chapter 24: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) - p. 298 43. Appendix - p. 320 44. Index - p. 320 45. Inside back cover - p. 320