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Contents |
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| Editorial | 4 |
| Editor’s notes | 6 |
| GENERAL PRINCIPLES | |
| Intensive care medicine in resource-limited settings: a general overview | 7 |
| Systematic assessment of an ICU patient 18 Intensive care medicine in rural sub-Saharan Africa - who to admit? | 11 |
| Identifying critically ill patients - Triage, Early Warning Scores and Rapid Response Teams | 22 |
| Critical care where there is no ICU: Basic management of critically ill patients in a low income country | 27 |
| MONITORING | |
| Monitoring in ICU - ECG, pulse oximetry and capnography | 32 |
| Invasive blood pressure monitoring | 37 |
| Central venous cannulation | 43 |
| Cardiac output monitoring | 51 |
| Acid-base disorders in critical care | 59 |
| Delirium in critical care | 67 |
| Sedation in intensive care patients | 74 |
| Nutrition in the critically ill | 79 |
| Evidence-based medicine in critical care | 88 |
| TRAUMA | |
| Management of major trauma | 95 |
| Management of head injuries | 107 |
| Acute cervical spine injures in adults: initial management | 112 |
| Thoracic trauma | 119 |
| Guidelines for management of massive blood loss in trauma | 125 |
| Rhabdomyolysis | 130 |
| Management of burns | 133 |
| Management of drowning | 141 |
| SEPSIS | |
| Management of sepsis with limited resources | 145 |
| Abdominal compartment syndrome | 156 |
| MICROBIOLOGY | |
| Bugs and drugs’ in the Intensive Care Unit | 160 |
| CARDIOVASCULAR | |
| Inotropes and vasopressors in critical care | 169 |
| Management of cardiac arrest - review of the 2012 | 177 |
| RESPIRATORY | |
| Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) | 183 |
| Hospital-acquired pneumonia | 188 |
| An introduction to mechanical ventilation | 192 |
| Tracheostomy | 199 |
| RENAL | |
| Acute kidney injury - diagnosis, management and prevention | 207 |
| Renal replacement therapy in critical care | 215 |
| Peritoneal dialysis in acute kidney injury | 223 |
| NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE | |
| Neurological causes of muscle weakness in the Intensive Care Unit | 228 |
| Tetanus | 233 |
| Brainstem death | 240 |
| Cultural issues in end-of-life care | 243 |
| MISCELLANEOUS | |
| Diabetic ketoacidosis | 247 |
| Emergency management of poisoning | 253 |
| Management of snake envenomation | 261 |
