Textbook of Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy in the Critically III

Contents: I. Physics and Physiology: 1. Physical Principles and Sources of Error in Invasive Blood Pressure Measurement in the Critically III/Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni and Dhanashri Karkhanis. 2. Physiology of Arterial Pressure Monitoring/Vijaya Prakash Patil. 3. Physiology of Central Venous Pressure and Pulmonary Artery Occlusion Pressure/Nishanth Baliga and Jigeeshu Vasistha Divatia. 4. Heart–Lung Interactions in the Critically III/Jacob George Pulinilkunnathil, Amol Trimbakrao Kothekar and Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni. 5. Preload Responsiveness/Sheila Nainan Myatra. 6. End-Expiratory Occlusion and Passive Leg Raising Tests/Rui Shi, Xavier Monnet and Jean-Louis Teboul. II. Cardiac Output Measurement: 7. Pulmonary Artery Catheterization/Nishanth Baliga, Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni and Jigeeshu Vasistha Divatia. 8. Transpulmonary Thermodilution/Alexandra Beurton, Jean-Louis Teboul and Xavier Monnet. 9. Arterial Pressure-Based Cardiac Output Measurements/Daniel De Backer and Simone Giglioli. 10. NICO (Partial CO2 Rebreathing System) Cardiac Output Monitor/Suhail S Siddiqui and Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni. 11. Bioimpedance and Bioreactance Cardiac Output Measurement/Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni and Ruchira Wasudeo Khasne. 12. Pulse Wave Transit Time for Cardiac Output Measurement (Estimated Continuous Cardiac Output Device)/Natesh Prabu R and Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni. 13. Pressure Recording Analytical Method of Cardiac Output Measurement/Ruchira Wasudeo Khasne and Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni. 14. Ultrasound Dilution Technique for Cardiac Output Measurement/Jacob George Pulinilkunnathil and Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni. 15. Electrical Cardiometry for Cardiac Output Measurement/Shilpushp Jagannath Bhosale and Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni. III. Downstream Parameters and Others: 16. Clinical Assessment of a Patient with Shock/Jacob George Pulinilkunnathil, Jigeeshu Vasistha Divatia and Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni. 17. Early Goal Directed Therapy, ScvO2 and PCO2 Gap/Rahul Pandit and Gurudas Sadanand Pundpal. 18. Lactate Monitoring in the Critically III/Nishanth Baliga, Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni and Jigeeshu Vasistha Divatia. 19. Biomarkers in Shock/Babu Abraham and Ebenezer Rabindrajan. 20. Monitoring Regional Circulation/Jacob George Pulinilkunnathil and Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni. 21. Rationale for the Monitoring of the Microcirculation/Olcay Dilken and Can Ince. 22. Intra-abdominal Pressure Monitoring, Intra-abdominal Hypertension and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome/Shilpushp Jagannath Bhosale and Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni. 23. Venous Thromboembolism/Shilpushp Jagannath Bhosale and Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni. IV. Types of Shock: 24. Vasodilatory Shock/Suresh Ramasubban. 25. Diagnostic Modality and Hemodynamic Management of Cardiogenic Shock/Dheeraj Arora and Yatin Mehta. 26. Diagnosis and Hemodynamic Management of Obstructive Shock/Armand Mekontso Dessap.  5: V. Assessing Cardiac Function: 27. Diastolic Dysfunction in Critically Patients/Rahul Pandit and Prasad Padwal. 28. Right Ventricular Failure in the Critically III/Srinivas Samavedam and Maneendra Singarapu. VI. Supporting the Cardiovascular System: 29. Fluid Therapy in Shock/Ruchira Wasudeo Khasne and Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni. 30. Vasopressors in Critically III Patients/Harish MM, Ramya BM, Sameer Bansal and Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni. 31. Inotropes in Critically Ill Patients /Natesh Prabu R and Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni. 32. Intra-aortic Balloon Pump/Deepak Govil and Divya Pal. 33. Left Ventricular Assist Devices in the Management of Acute Cardiogenic Shock/Suresh Rao KG, Rahul Pandit and Muralikrishna T. 34. Extracorporeal Cardiovascular Support: Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation/Jitendra Choudhary and Rahul Pandit. 35. Hypotension Prediction Models: Past, Present, and Future/JJ Vos and TWL Scheeren. VII. Ultrasonography and Echocardiography in the Critically III: 36. Basic Physics of Ultrasonography and Doppler Imaging/Bindiya Salunke, Amol Trimbakrao Kothekar and Vijaya Prakash Patil. 37. Utility of Echocardiography and Ultrasound in a Patient with Shock/Ian Seppelt. 38. Transthoracic Echocardiography in the Critically III/Ashish Kumar Srivastava and Shrikanth Srinivasan. 39. Transesophageal Echocardiography in the Critically III/Shilpushp Jagannath Bhosale and Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni. 40. Extended-Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma/Sachin Gupta and Deeksha Singh Tomar. 41. Lung Ultrasound: Blue Protocol and Falls Protocol/Jayant Shelgaonkar. 42. Ultrasound and Echocardiography-guided Resuscitation in a Patient with Shock and Cardiopulmonary Arrest/Amol Trimbakrao Kothekar, Anand Vinaykumar Joshi and Vijaya Prakash Patil. 43. Ultrasonography-guided Procedures in the Critically III/Tineesh Mathew and Amol Trimbakrao Kothekar. Index.

Textbook of Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy in the Critically Ill will prove to be useful resource for students and experienced practitioners. It will make their task of managing critically ill patients suffering from complex illnesses easier, and will improve their patient outcomes. The topics in this book have been authored by experts in their own field of monitoring, from India and abroad.

Key Features:

Easy flow to the prose; elaborating the physics, physiology, and principles of how different monitors work.
Describes the clinical application of monitoring systems.
Includes the advantages and disadvantages of the systems or tests and limitations of technology, where applicable.
Comprehensive coverage of all topics dealing with hemodynamic monitoring and therapy in critically ill patients.
Many pioneers writing about the tests they themselves developed.
Updated till the end of year August 2019.
Fully supported with reference lists so that interested readers can read further details, if interested.
Useful for students and practitioners of critical care alike.