The Pharmacologic Approach to the Critically Ill Patient

Defining the role of drug therapy in critical care, this text contains material on meta analysis, therapeutic drug monitoring, clinical use of muscle relaxants, transplantation therapy, pharmacologic approaches to the elderly patient, the critically ill obstetrical patient, treating paediatric patients, principles of toxicology and therapeutics, cholinergic agents in treating conditions such as myasthenia gravis, special considerations for bicarbonate therapy in transplantation and other circumstances, use of surfactant in infant distress syndrome and adult respiratory distress syndrome, use of sedation, use of immunotherapy, pharmacologic treatment of stroke, treatment of Parkinson's Disease and other muscle spasms, use of lazaroids, specifics of thrombolytic drug therapy, monoclonal antibodies in the treatment of shock, and use of mucolytic agents.