کتاب Manual of ICU Procedures 2016
کتابچه راهنمای مراحل ICU

Manual of ICU Procedures 1st Edicion

As specialty, critical care medicine is now entering in its adulthood, there is a lot of scope for improvement in teaching and training in this field. Critical care medicine is a unique specialty, where the sickest patients are being managed with a wide spectrum of procedures. In fact, there is need of hour to have a book with a compilation of all common procedures being done in critically ill patients for education and training purpose, despite easily available information on individual topic in current era.
Manual of ICU Procedures has 61 chapters, covering almost all relevant procedures, including simple as well as more complex, done in critically and acutely ill patients.
The book has five different sections, such as airway and respiratory procedures, vascular and cardiac procedures, neurological procedures, gastrointestinal/abdominal/genitourinary related procedures; while section miscellaneous covers a few other procedures. This book will be helpful to various clinicians across specialty including critical care physicians, emergency physicians, anesthetists, pulmonologists, pediatricians, general physicians and general surgeons.
The splendid chapters are written by experts with their vast experience and knowledge from various specialties, keeping in mind that it is also intended for the trainee students to help them to understand the procedures. Most of the chapters outline somewhat similar with headings such as introduction, indication, contraindication, applied anatomy, technique and equipment, preparation, steps of procedure, the post-procedure care, and complication/problem associated with the procedure.
All the procedures described in the book may not be necessarily done by critical care physicians depend upon the local ICU policy, but understanding these procedures will lead towards the optimal management of critically ill patients. As ever-evolving fast information and technology, changes may happen in procedure’s technique and equipment, author advice to keep updated on these issues in the future. Readers should also be aware that complications and problems for each procedure are highlighted briefly in the chapter, which may not cover exhaustive list. This is highly recommended by the author that being nature of patients, procedures are supposed to learn under supervision as per local policy, to achieve better skills while taking utmost care for safety to the patient.
The highlighted feature of the book is that procedures are described step by step along with images. I hope that the book will serve as a ready resource in any ICU and emergency room and for all clinicians who are dealing with critically ill patients.
So, have a great satisfaction from treating the sickest patients with better understanding and skill for a safe procedure.