Interpreting laboratory tests in intensive care / edited by Anirban Hom Choudhuri and Barnali Das.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Shock / Bikash Ray, Rakupathy Shanmugam -- Infection & sepsis / Pradeep Rangappa, Amrita Shah -- Electrolyte & acid base disturbances / Souvik Maitra -- Polytrauma & multiorgan dysfunction / Rahul Chaurasia, Kapildev Soni -- Acute poisonings and toxicities / Uttam Garg, Michael Christian -- Cardiac arrest & resuscitation / Sheikh Arif Pasha, Sivaprabodh Vuddandi -- Tropical infections in the intensive care unit / Tanu Singhal, Sweta Shah -- Organ support devices / Sayan Nath, Shashikant Sharma -- Organ retrieval and transplant / Parshotam Lal Gautam -- Malnutrition related complications / Sanjith Saseedharan, Surendra Shingnapurkar, Jairam Navde -- Reporting critical laboratory values / Sridevi Devaraj and Anil Chokkalla -- Respiratory emergencies / Manoj Goel, Aditi Singh -- Cardiovascular system emergencies / David C. Gaze, Paul O. Collinson -- Neurological emergencies / Arun Koul, Abha Sharma -- Gastrointestinal emergencies / Binita Goswami, Anuupama Suchita, Nikhil Gupta -- Bone & connective tissue emergencies / Anirban Bhattcharya, Ankit Patowary -- Urinary system emergencies / Urmila Anandh, Divya Bajpeyi, Barnali Das -- Haematological emergencies / Anirban Hom Choudhuri, Santvana Kohli Arora -- Endocrine system emergencies / A. Zara Herskovits, Nina Raoof, Lakshmi V. Ramanathan -- Pregnancy and puerperium related emergencies / Manju Mathew, Kannan Vaidyanathan -- Paediatric emergencies / Romit Saxena, U. D. Bindal -- Miscellaneous emergencies / Rahul Anand, Margesh Pathiban.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.