Introduction Diagnosing acute abdominal pain in critically ill patients can be difficult if the clinician tries to work through a comprehensive list of differential diagnoses ( Fig. 25.1 ). The most common etiologies seen outside of the intensive care unit…
Intensive care units (ICUs) represent a triumph of medicine: the ability to support and replace a large number of bodily functions. And yet, these actions are not cost free. Nearly every intervention has side effects and risks, all of which…
The immune system is complex, with numerous mechanisms to confront a myriad of both foreign pathogens and even nonforeign neoplasms. The immune response to injury is mediated by the innate and adaptive arms of the immune system. The innate response…
Introduction Diagnosing acute abdominal pain in critically ill patients can be difficult if the clinician tries to work through a comprehensive list of differential diagnoses ( Fig. 25.1 ). The most common etiologies seen outside of the intensive care unit…