Bedside procedures for the intensivist

1 General Considerations.......................................................... 1 Heidi L. Frankel and Mark E. Hamill 2 Conscious Sedation and Deep Sedation, Including Neuromuscular Blockade..................................... 19 Russell R. Miller III 3 Airway Management.............................................................. 37 Patricia Reinhard and Irene P. Osborn 4 Ultrasound Physics and Equipment...................................... 57 Sarah B. Murthi, Mary Ferguson, and Amy C. Sisley 5 Ultrasound-Guided Vascular Access Procedures................ 81 Christian H. Butcher and Alexander B. Levitov 6 Ultrasound-Guided Drainage Procedures for the Intensivist.................................................................... 113 Kathryn M. Tchorz 7 Focused Echocardiography in the ICU................................. 139 Steven A. Conrad 8 Procedures in Critical Care: Dialysis and Apheresis.......... 183 Matthew J. Diamond and Harold M. Szerlip 9 Pericardiocentesis................................................................... 205 James Parker and Murtuza J. Ali 10 Bedside Insertion of Vena Cava Filters in the Intensive Care Unit...................................................... 217 A. Britton Christmas and Ronald F. Sing 11 Percutaneous Dilational Tracheostomy................................ 233 Bennett P. deBoisblanc 12 Open Tracheostomy................................................................ 247 Adam M. Shiroff and John P. Pryor ix Contents 13 Transbronchial Biopsy in the Intensive Care Unit.............. 255 Erik E. Folch, Chirag Choudhary, Sonali Vadi, and Atul C. Mehta 14 Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy................................ 275 Jennifer Lang and Shahid Shafi 15 Chest Drainage........................................................................ 287 Gabriel T. Bosslet and Praveen N. Mathur 16 Intracranial Monitoring......................................................... 307 R. Morgan Stuart, Christopher Madden, Albert Lee, and Stephan A. Mayer 17 Billing for Bedside Procedures.............................................. 323 Marc J. Shapiro and Mark M. Melendez Index.................................................................................................