Recommend a good book for fluids and lytes, ICU too

[nurburgring]

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Howdy all,

MS4 going into gas here. I am looking for a good book dealing with topics in fluids and electrolytes. I just bought the new edition of The ICU Book for an SICU subI next month, which includes a section on the topic, but I was wondering what else is there?

Also, while on the subject of books, is the Lange ICU book any good? I think it is called Current Critical Care Diagnois and Treatment? What about Critical Care Medicine: The Essentials?

Thanks for all the help dudes and dudettes.

J

 

[timtye78]

Another to either copy or buy that is good for both Anesthesiology board review as well as easy to read ICU stuff is Anesthesiology Review by FAUST.

Ask around local anesthesiology residents to see if someone has a copy you can look at, then you can decide what you want to do at that point. I think a new copy goes for around $65.

 

[SexPanther]

I read CCM: The Essentials by Marini on my rotation this past year. It was fairly verbose and difficult to read, but overall I felt like it presented the info fairly well. It certainly helped during the month.

With that being said, a resident allowed me to borrow the ICU Book for a day or two, and I thought that it flowed much better than Marini's. It also had pretty pictures.👍

Another wonderful resource is http://www.ccmtutorials.com. Check it out.

 

[swpm]

MS4 going into gas here. I am looking for a good book dealing with topics in fluids and electrolytes. I just bought the new edition of The ICU Book for an SICU subI next month, which includes a section on the topic, but I was wondering what else is there?

Just MHO, but I think you're better off using ONE good book. It's spring, you're an MS4, you ought to have a pretty cushy schedule. Knock out Marino, cover to cover, a casual but semi-careful read, over the next couple weeks and you'll be a star during your SICU month.

The interns are in burnt-out survival mode now; no way they're reading ahead for their SICU month. Dig up some of the oft cited articles, like Rivers and his early goal-directed sepsis article, Tobin and his advances in mechanical ventilation article, a good review article on ARDS (Ware from NEJM 2000 is good), Van den Berghe's insulin in critically ill patients article, etc ... you'll be way ahead of them.

And if you can read a blood gas on top of that, you'll outshine half the residents. 🙂

 

[deuist]

Acid-Base, Fluids, and Electrolytes Made Ridiculously Simple by Preston is a good start. It's a nephrology text for medical students and residents.