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

Basics of Intensive Care Medicine

• practical presentation for the clinician (“from practitio­ner for practitioner”)
• textbook and reference book
• no multi-author book (“made from one piece”)
• ideal for the preparation for the exam
• everything compact and clear for daily work in the in­tensive care unit
• didactically clearly structured
• The book conveys the latest and current status in Inter­nal Intensive Care Medicine.
• Numerous illustrations, schemes and memos are intended to make reading and learning easier.
• Among all ICU books bestseller Lehmanns Media in Germany since 2017

The book is designed to make you fit for the management of critically ill patients (especially of COVID-19 patients) in the intensive care unit. It contains all the basics 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, acute mesenteric ischemia, pneumonia, multi-drug-resistant organisms, skin and soft tissue infections, fungal infections (mycoses), malaria, endocrinological emergencies, disorders of the electrolytes, disorders of the acid-base balance, blood products, DIC, hyerfibrinolysis, HIT, ITP, thrombotic microangiopathies, oncological emergencies and also a separate detailed chapter on COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2).

10^th edition (3^rdEnglish edition)

ISBN: 978-3-00-066099-3

1295 pages, 1542 figures, 120 tables