Algorithms in Critical Care Medicine

Srinivas Samavedam & Ganshyam M Jagathkar

ISBN 10: 9366161995 / ISBN 13: 9789366161990

Published by Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, 2025

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Emergency clinical medicine and intensive care are areas where complex conditions present with overlapping clinical manifestations. Symptoms of several life-threatening conditions are often similar while the therapeutic options are diametrically opposite. Understanding the variability is crucial for quick initiation of appropriate therapy at the right time. The vastness of medicine makes the recollection of all syndromes very difficult. In crucial situations, an algorithmic approach often helps to shortlist the differential diagnosis and prioritize the investigations and treatment. An algorithmic approach to medical emergencies is well known and documented. The literature available so far deals with such algorithms as standalone documents. However, quite often, the endpoints of one algorithm end in clinical conditions which themselves need another algorithmic approach. It is therefore necessary for all algorithms to end seamlessly and lead to destination algorithms. This initiative by the Hyderabad Intensive Care Symposium (HICS) team seeks to plug in a gap that exists in providing seamless algorithms. This collection of algorithms starts with a syndromic approach and leads to diseasespecific algorithms. These algorithms have been curated and edited by Senior Practitioners of intensive care who, with their years of teaching and work experience, have molded clinical science into a practical framework. This collection of algorithms will be of immense help in emergency rooms, high-dependency units, and intensive care units as well as any location or facility where patients with acute presentations are cared for. Key Features The Hyderabad Intensive Care Symposium (HICS) team has been at the forefront of critical care academics for close to 18 years. The team has always focused on sharing information and bringing latest thoughts and concepts to the keen learners of intensive care. This book has been the long-cherished dream of the academic directors of the HICS team.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Algorithms in Critical Care Medicine
• Publisher: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9366161995
• ISBN 13: 9789366161990
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Emergency clinical medicine and intensive care are areas where complex conditions present with overlapping clinical manifestations. Symptoms of several life-threatening conditions are often similar, while the therapeutic options are diametrically opposite. Understanding the variability is crucial for quick initiation of appropriate therapy at the right time.

In medical emergencies, an algorithmic approach to investigations, differential diagnosis and treatment is often adopted. It is regularly the case that the endpoint of one algorithm results in clinical conditions which themselves need another algorithmic approach. Subsequently, there is a need for all algorithms to end seamlessly and lead to destination algorithms.

This book seeks to fill the gap that exists in providing seamless algorithms. Its algorithms begin with a syndromic approach, and lead to disease specific algorithms.

These algorithms have been curated and edited by senior practitioners in intensive care who, with their years of teaching and work experience, have translated clinical science into a practical framework.

This collection of algorithms will be of help in emergency rooms, high-dependency units, and intensive care units, as well as any location or facility where patients with acute presentations are cared for.

About the Author

Srinivas Samavedam MD DNB FRCP FNB EDIC FICCM DMLE MBA
Chief Intensivist, Department of Critical Care, Ramdev Rao Hospital, Hyderabad, Telangana, India; Associate Editor, IJCCM

Ganshyam M Jagathkar MBBS MD FNB FICCM MBA
Director, Department of Critical Care, Medicover Hospitals, Hyderabad, Telangana, India