Interpreting Laboratory Tests in Intensive Care

This book incorporates a wide variety of clinical conditions requiring admission to the intensive care unit that necessitate timely performance of diagnostic tests and their correct interpretation to guide the best treatment. It tries to translate complex physiological principles and diagnostic algorithms into a clinically relevant format that can be easily understood by clinicians. It also explains at length the key clinical inputs to be acquired by laboratory physicians before reporting the results and tries to solve the common dilemmas leading to misinterpretation. The importance of every detail, from sample collection and dispatch to correlation of clinical state report, has been adequately explained with suitable examples and proper explanations.

Foreword by Padma Shri (Honorary) Brigadier Dr. Arvind Lal

Foreword by Dr. Atul Mohan Kochhar

Preface

Acknowledgment

Editor Biographies

List of Contributors

1 Shock

Bikash Ranjan Ray and Rakupathy Shanmugam

2 Sepsis and Septic Shock

Pradeep Rangappa and Amrita Shah

3 Electrolyte and Acid-Base Disturbances in Intensive Care

Souvik Maitra

4 Polytrauma and Multi-Organ Dysfunction

Rahul Chaurasia and Kapildev Soni

5 Emergency and Intensive Care Management for Acute Poisonings and Toxicities

Uttam Garg and Michael Christian

6 Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Shaik Arif Pasha and Siva Prabodh Vuddandi

7 Laboratory Diagnosis of Tropical Infections in the Intensive Care Unit

Tanu Singhal and Sweta Shah

8 Organ-Support Devices

Sayan Nath and Shashikant Sharma

9 Organ Retrieval and Transplant

Parshotam Lal Gautam

10 Malnutrition and Related Complications

Sanjith Saseedharan, Surendra Shingnapurkar and Jayram Navade

11 Reporting Critical Laboratory Values

Sridevi Devaraj and Anil K. Chokkalla

12 Respiratory Disorders

Manoj Goel and Aditi Singh

13 Interpreting Laboratory Diagnosis for the Cardiovascular System in Intensive Care

David C. Gaze and Paul O. Collinson

14 Neurological Disorders

Arun Koul and Abha Sharma

15 Enhancing Diagnostic Precision: Interpreting Laboratory Findings for Gastrointestinal Diseases in Intensive Care

Anuupama Suchiita, Binita Goswami and Nikhil Gupta

16 Bone and Joint Diseases

Anirban Bhattacharjee and Ankit Patowary

17 Interpreting Laboratory Diagnosis in Intensive Care Urinary System

Urmila Anandh, Divya Bajpai and Barnali Das

18 Haematological Disorders

Anirban Hom Choudhuri and Santvana Kohli Arora

19 Endocrine System

A. Zara Herskovits, Nina Raoof and Lakshmi V. Ramanathan

20 Pregnancy and Puerperium

Manju Mathew and Kannan Vaidyanathan

21 Pediatric Diseases

R. Saxena and U.D. Bindal

22 Miscellaneous Diseases

Rahul Kumar Anand and Magesh Parthiban

Index