Herold Walker

Textbook and reference book - no multi-author book (“made from one piece”) - ideal for the preparation for the exam in Intensive Care Medicine - everything compact and clear for daily work in the intensive care unit - didactically clearly structured.

The book conveys the latest and current status in Intensive and Critical Care Medicine.

Numerous illustrations, schemes and memos are intended to make reading and learning easier.

The book is designed to make you fit for the management of critically ill patients (among other things of  COVID-19 patients) in the intensive care unit. It contains all topics of critical care medicine:

• airway management
• ventilation principles and ventilation techniques
• weaning
• tracheotomy
• chest tube [thoracic drainage]
• analgosedation
• catecholamine therapy
• hemodynamic monitoring
• shock
• nutrition
• resuscitation
• sepsis
• ECMO
• acute kidney injury
• renal replacement therapy
• acute coronary syndrome
• cardiogenic shock
• extracorporeal circulatory support
• cardiac arrhythmias
• inflammatory heart diseases [endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis]
• hypertensive crisis
• pulmonary embolism
• acute aortic syndrom
• ARDS
• pulmonary hypertension
• acute right heart failure
• obstructive lung diseases [status asthmaticus, exacerbated COPD]
• interstitial lung diseases
• bronchial hemorrhage
• gastrointestinal bleeding
• acute pancreatitis
• gastrointestinal atony
• complications of liver cirrhosis
• acute liver failure

Author: Dr. med. Volker Herold

• training as an internist and cardiologist
• additional designation emergency medicine
• senior emergency physician in the emergency medical service (specialist certificate)
• senior physician of Clinic for Internal Medicine, St. Joseph Hospital Regensburg / Germany
• head of the compact course in intensive care medicine

• English
• Hardcover
• Pages: 1800
• Year: 2003
• Author Publisher