This issue of World Clinics: Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine focuses on respiratory critical care, presenting an up-to-date collection of articles on the latest developments in the field, authored by internationally renowned experts. The book begins with an introduction to respiratory critical care and assisted ventilation. The following chapters discuss different disorders including acute COPD and asthma, acute respiratory distress syndrome, pulmonary thromboembolism, and chronic respiratory failure.The final sections cover critical care in poisoning cases, nutritional management in the ICU, interpretation of arterial blood gases and acid-base abnormalities, and ICU infections and antibiotics.Each article concludes with comments by the editor highlighting their own experience and summarising the chapter. The book is enhanced by images, table and figures.Key PointsEvidence-based review of respiratory critical care topics providing an overview of the latest advances in the fieldPart of the World Clinics: Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine seriesEach article concludes with comments by the editorComprehensive text enhanced by images, tables and figures
Surinder K Jindal MD FCCP Professor and Head, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India Randeep Guleria MD DMHead, Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Sleep Disorders, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
EditorialAbbreviationsEvolution and the Core of Critical CareAssisted VentilationWeaning from Assisted VentilationManagement of Acute Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and AsthmaAcute Respiratory Distress SyndromePulmonary ThromboembolismCritical Care in Case of PoisoningChronic Respiratory FailureNutritional Management in the Intensive Care UnitInterpretation of Arterial Blood Gases and Acid-base AbnormalitiesIntensive Care Unit Infections and Antibiotics