Critical Care Medicine (2nd Edition)

Name: Critical Care Medicine (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 9787117320702

于凯江 / 杜斌People's Medical Publishing House · ChinaJan 2025

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Word count: 230K words
Chapters: 68
ISBN: 9787117320702

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Summary

The development of this textbook series reflects national policies on standardized residency training and follows the general principles and detailed rules of the "Content and Standards for Standardized Residency Training (Trial)" issued by the National Health Commission. Aligned with the residency training assessment outline (theory and clinical practice), the series strives for excellence to create national premium textbooks for post-graduation medical education with Chinese characteristics. It highlights the features of post-graduation education, creating "stem cell textbooks" for post-graduation medical education in China; reflects comprehensiveness and standardization, creating training textbooks that are targeted, practical, and applicable; and emphasizes innovation and balance, improves readability, and adopts a broad view of textbooks so that textbook development becomes an important driver of residency training.

This series continues the PBL and CBL teaching models of the previous edition, highlighting its professional characteristics and training features, grasping the differences between college education and post-graduation education, emphasizing "innovation" and "targetedness," and focusing on the "comprehensiveness" and "overall optimization" of the textbooks. It highlights disciplinary characteristics, reflects professional individuality, and strengthens "inclusiveness" and "universality."

Clinical workflows, reasoning, and diagnosis and treatment should be organized and written according to relevant clinical diagnosis and treatment guidelines, standards, clinical pathways, expert consensus, or diagnosis and treatment standards unanimously recognized by the writing expert group, rather than the personal experience and views of institutions or experts. In accordance with the relevant disciplines and specialties stipulated in the standardized residency training standards, and based on survey and demonstration results as well as opinions and suggestions during the use of the first edition, six new titles have been added, bringing the total to 46.

Editor's review

Edited by Professor Yu Kaijiang, _Critical Care Medicine (2nd Edition)_ is an authoritative work that is grounded in the latest advances and rigorously structured. It not only reflects recent rapid progress in critical care—organ support, infection control, hemodynamic monitoring—but, more importantly, tightly integrates complex pathophysiological mechanisms with clinical decision-making, offering a clear framework for diagnosis and treatment. For editors, the book's value lies in its outstanding systematicity: from basic theory to advanced life support techniques, from common syndromes to rare complications, everything is coherently integrated. The grading of evidence and discussion of controversial issues reflect a rigorous scholarly attitude and help clinicians build critical thinking. Compared with the first edition, the new edition extensively updates international guidelines and consensus statements as well as domestic clinical data; core chapters—especially those on sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and critical care nutrition—are more current and useful for reference. Its concise writing and numerous charts (such as hemodynamic waveform interpretation and ventilator parameter setting flowcharts) significantly improve the efficiency of knowledge transfer, making it suitable as a desk reference to consult repeatedly.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Frontline clinicians such as residents and attending physicians in critical care medicine (ICU)
Doctors in emergency, anesthesiology, respiratory, and other related departments who need to manage critically ill patients
Graduate students or senior undergraduates in medical universities, as a textbook or reference for in-depth study of critical care medicine
Medical professionals who want to systematically update their critical care knowledge and prepare for relevant qualification exams or academic discussions

Not a good fit for

General readers with no medical background who are only seeking popular medical knowledge
Beginners who only need to understand very basic life support knowledge (such as CPR)

Reading tips

Read chapters in order, first solidifying the basics of pathophysiology and monitoring techniques, then delving into the diagnosis and treatment of diseases by system
Read relevant chapters alongside real cases encountered in clinical practice; this greatly enhances depth of understanding and practical application
Focus on the summary and outlook sections at the end of each chapter, which help grasp development trends and unresolved issues in the field

About the publisher

People's Medical Publishing House China · Founded in 1953

Founded in 1953, the People's Medical Publishing House is an important institution in China's medical publishing field, with publishing directions covering medical textbooks, academic monographs, medical journals, and popular science books. Its collection contains 2,503 titles, mainly classified under medicine. Representative works include the Complete Book of Chinese Nutrition Science (2nd Edition, 2 volumes), Guide to Clinical Practice with Medical Records, the Golden Mirror of Medicine (Volume 1), Chinese Medical Imaging: Head and Neck Volume (3rd Edition), and the Essentials of the Golden Cabinet from the Collected Clinical Chinese Medicine Must-Read Series (Collector's Edition), spanning both modern medicine and classical Chinese medical texts. Representative authors include Yang Yuexin, Ge Keyou, Ye Tianshi, Su Li, Wu Qian, Zheng Jinsheng, Wang Zhenchang, and Xian Junfang, covering fields such as nutrition, Chinese medicine, and medical imaging. With a publishing approach that balances textbooks and academic monographs, the press has established the "Renwei" brand.

版权信息
编者名单
出版说明
主编简介
副主编简介
前言
第一篇总论
第一章重症医学概论
第二章重症患者的早期识别、病情评估及转运
第一节重症患者的早期识别与病情评估
第二节重症患者的转运
参考文献
第三章伦理问题
第一节脑死亡
第二节终末期治疗
第三节临终关怀
第四章心搏骤停与心肺脑复苏
第一节心搏骤停的判断和病因识别
第二节基础生命支持
第三节高级生命支持
第四节心搏骤停后治疗
参考文献
第五章重症患者的镇痛与镇静
第一节镇痛镇静是ICU重症患者的基本治疗
第二节无监测（评估）勿镇痛镇静
第三节每日镇静中断
第四节谵妄
第五节镇痛镇静治疗的根本在于器官保护
参考文献
第六章重症患者的营养代谢支持
第一节肠内营养支持
第二节肠外营养支持
参考文献
第七章水、电解质代谢紊乱与酸碱平衡失调
第一节低钠血症
第二节高钠血症
第三节血钾异常
第四节动脉血气分析与酸碱平衡
参考文献
第八章脓毒症
第二篇各论
第九章重症心脏
第一节急性冠状动脉综合征
第二节急性心脏压塞
第十章重症呼吸
第一节急性呼吸窘迫综合征
第二节慢性阻塞性肺疾病急性加重期
第三节急性重症哮喘
第十一章重症消化
第一节重度急性胰腺炎
第二节急性肝衰竭
第三节上消化道出血
第十二章重症肾脏
第十三章重症神经
第十四章重症产科
第一节子痫
第二节产后出血
第十五章重症儿科
第十六章重症创伤
第十七章获得性凝血病
第一节稀释性凝血病
第二节消耗性凝血病
第三节噬血细胞综合征
参考文献
第十八章重症内分泌
第一节甲状腺危象
第二节糖尿病酮症酸中毒
第十九章中毒与药物过量

FAQ

What are the main updates in the second edition compared with the first?

The second edition has been comprehensively updated based on the latest domestic and international guidelines and clinical research evidence in recent years, with substantial revisions and expansions especially in sepsis and septic shock (e.g., Sepsis-3 criteria), the Berlin definition and management of acute respiratory distress syndrome, analgesia and sedation strategies in critically ill patients, prevention and treatment of acute kidney injury, critical care nutrition support, and advanced life support techniques such as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). More real-world clinical cases and flowcharts have also been added.

Is this book suitable as a textbook for standardized specialist training in critical care medicine?

Very suitable. The book is led by Professor Yu Kaijiang, chair of the Critical Care Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association. Its content system is highly consistent with the domestic critical care specialist training outline, covers the core knowledge and skills that must be mastered, and emphasizes the development of clinical thinking. It is one of the authoritative textbooks recommended by many training bases.

For doctors who are not critical care specialists, what is the reading value of this book?

For specialists in emergency, anesthesiology, respiratory, cardiology, and other fields who frequently encounter critically ill patients, the book provides a systematic framework for critical illness assessment and initial management. It helps quickly identify changes in condition and understand ICU diagnostic and treatment logic, thereby improving multidisciplinary collaboration efficiency and continuity of management before and after patient transfer. The sections on the basic principles of organ function support have broad reference value.

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About the author

于凯江 Author

Yu Kaijiang is an author in the fields of critical care medicine and clinical teaching in China, about whom limited public information is available. Judging from the three works included in the database—Critical Care Medicine (2nd Edition), Acute Kidney Injury and Blood Purification, and On Clinical Teaching—his writing centers on several interrelated areas: intensive care, renal replacement therapy, and medical education. His textbook-style works emphasize a complete and up-to-date body of knowledge, setting out diagnostic and treatment principles for clinicians and medical students, while the monograph on acute kidney injury and blood purification addresses a key issue in critical care, stressing standardized procedures and clinical judgment. On Clinical Teaching reflects his attention to the training of medical professionals and to teaching methods. Overall, his writing is practical and clearly organized, serving clinical practice and teaching needs, and offers useful reference for professional medical readers.

杜斌 Author

Du Bin — public information about this author is limited, and no reliable record of nationality, dates of birth and death, education, or professional appointments is available. Judging from the two works held in the collection, his reading and writing interests span two quite different fields: medicine and classical Chinese literature. One is the second edition of Critical Care Medicine, a professional clinical volume concerned with the treatment and theoretical organization of critical illness; the other is a fully annotated and modern-Chinese translation of The Classic of Tea and its Sequel, part of a series presenting canonical Chinese texts to general readers. These subjects are far apart, yet both demand solid knowledge and careful textual work—the first emphasizing practical standards, the second textual scholarship and accurate annotation. Only these two works are known, commonly classified under medicine and classical literature. Further details of Du Bin's life and academic background await additional sources and are not speculated upon here.