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- English
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Interpreting Laboratory Tests in Intensive Care
About this book
The book "Interpretation of laboratory investigations in intensive care" incorporates wide variety of clinical conditions requiring admission in the intensive care unit that necessitate timely performance of diagnostic tests and their correct interpretation to guide the best treatment. The book tries to translate the complex physiological principles and diagnostic algorithms into clinically relevant format that can be easily understood by the clinicians. It also explains at length the key clinical inputs to be acquired by the laboratory physicians before reporting the results and tries to solve the common dilemmas leading to misinterpretation. The importance of every detail starting from sample collection, despatch and correlation of report with the clinical state has been adequately explained with suitable examples and proper explanations.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Dr. Atul Mohan Kochhar
- Foreword by (Honarary) Brigadier Dr. Arvind Lal
- Preface
- Acknowledgment
- Editor Biographies
- List of Contributors
- 1 Shock
- 2 Sepsis and Septic Shock
- 3 Electrolyte and Acid-Base Disturbances in Intensive Care
- 4 Polytrauma and Multi-Organ Dysfunction
- 5 Emergency and Intensive Care Management for Acute Poisonings and Toxicities
- 6 Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- 7 Laboratory Diagnosis of Tropical Infections in the Intensive Care Unit
- 8 Organ-Support Devices
- 9 Organ Retrieval and Transplant
- 10 Malnutrition and Related Complications
- 11 Reporting Critical Laboratory Values
- 12 Respiratory Disorders
- 13 Interpreting Laboratory Diagnosis for the Cardiovascular System in Intensive Care
- 14 Neurological Disorders
- 15 Enhancing Diagnostic Precision: Interpreting Laboratory Findings for Gastrointestinal Diseases in Intensive Care
- 16 Bone and Joint Diseases
- 17 Interpreting Laboratory Diagnosis in Intensive Care Urinary System
- 18 Haematological Disorders
- 19 Endocrine System
- 20 Pregnancy and Puerperium
- 21 Pediatric Diseases
- 22 Miscellaneous Diseases
- Index