Intensive care medicine

The surge in COVID-19 cases leading to hospitalizations around the world quickly depleted hospital resources and reserves, forcing physicians to make extremely difficult life-or-death decisions on ventilator allocation between patients.

This is a book for clinician educators.

How do physicians learn to respond to unfamiliar, unusual situations?

A case-based, multidisciplinary book on paediatric retrieval and transfer, covering many critically ill paediatric presentations and issues.

Samuel A.

Part of the Neurosurgery by Example series, this volume on surgical neuro-oncology presents exemplary cases in which renowned authors guide readers through the assessment and planning, decision making, surgical procedure, after care, and complication management of common and uncommon disorders.

This book provides a comprehensive overview on sedation and analgesia for the pediatric intensivist.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to non-invasive mechanical ventilation in palliative medicine, focusing on why and when it may be necessary.

This book is the first of its kind - a comprehensive reference for anesthesia and perioperative clinicians involved in aortic surgery.

This title will provide an up-to-date review of the emerging practice of neurology telemedicine.

Practical review of the pathophysiology of brain dysfunction and a thorough account of the diagnostic and therapeutic options available.

The second edition of this handbook is an up-to-date guide to the application of catheter-based interventions across the entire  age range of congenital heart disease patients, from fetal life through to adulthood.

This book functions as an essential guide to the safe and effective sedation of pediatric patients outside the operating room.

This practical guide empowers physicians and nurses to optimally apply and interpret neuromonitoring in critically ill neonates and children.

With 700+ practice questions, this comprehensive guide delivers the information, insights, and practice you need to pass your certification with flying colorsWith serious brain issues that lead to breathing problems, heart problems, kidney problems, and more, patients in the neuro ICU are the sickest of the sick.

A cutting edge and highly-illustrated guide to airway management for anaesthetists, intensivists, and emergency medicine physicians.

The intensive care unit (ICU) is a specialised hospital ward where the 'sickest-of-the-sick' patients, often with life-threatening illness, receive around-the-clock monitoring and life support.

Focusing on the most commonly tested topics, the book provides those studying for the oral board exam with model answers.

One of the first comprehensive summaries of the latest thinking and research in improving intensive care quality and patient safety.

This is a comprehensive but concise reference that documents the nature and importance of the injury problem in the United States.

Como especialidad la medicina crítica ha reunido numerosos avances médicos, como ventiladores mecánicos, diálisis, nutrición parenteral o enteral, tratamientos cardíacos agudos y control térmico.

The second edition of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine spans three volumes, with major sections dedicated to specific organ systems.

This book presents the parameters of Mastery Learning (ML), an especially stringent variety of competency-based education that guides students to acquire essential knowledge and skill, measured rigorously against a minimum passing standard (MPS).

Written by experts in the anesthesiology field, this unique resource explores the various issues and complications that arise during the administration of anesthesiology in various clinical settings.

This comprehensive resource brings together the most current theories, evidence and best practice parameters for the use of nocturnal non-invasive ventilation (nNIV).

The primary focus of critical care is doing everything necessary to save lives.

This issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest edited by Drs.

This practical, useful guide is for all clinicians involved in perioperative care of the geriatric patient undergoing surgery with anesthesia.

- Los autores se dirigen fundamentalmente a los servicios de Urgencias (hospitalarios y prehospitalarios) y unidades de Cuidados Intensivos, donde recaen las intoxicaciones agudas.

This book focuses on the technical, cognitive, and behavioral skills needed to implement an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) simulation program.

A quick reference pocketbook on a huge range of emergencies for all clinicians working in emergency or acute care settings.

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The essentials of intensive care medicine for residents, trainees and paramedics attached to the ICU.

In this era of evidence-based medicine, one of the biggest challenges confronting acute medicine clinicians is keeping abreast with the rapidly changing recommendations that guide clinical practice.

This book provides readers with a detailed orientation to healthcare simulation research, aiming to provide descriptive and illustrative accounts of healthcare simulation research (HSR).

One of the first comprehensive summaries of the latest thinking and research in improving intensive care quality and patient safety.

Clinically focused compilation of expert opinion and international perspectives from leaders in anesthesiology, building on real-life case-based problems.

This book aims to highlight the importance of the development of health conditions and demand for the application of noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIMV) outside the intensive care units (ICUs); the diversification of possible scenarios outside the ICUs; the need to establish references that consolidate this phenomenon and the healthcare organizations models.

An extensive introduction to patient-centeredness in critical care through case-based examples of shared decision making.

Now in its fully revised and expanded second edition, this volume is the definitive resource on long-distance air transport of injured patients in both peacetime and wartime.

Dar el puntapié inicial de un libro no es tarea sencilla, como tampoco lo fue concebir esta obra.

Addressing all aspects of brain death and thoroughly detailing how a potential organ donor should be maintained to ensure maximum use of the organs and cells, The Brain-Dead Organ Donor: Pathophysiology and Management is a landmark addition to the literature.

This extensively updated textbook comprehensively reviews the latest developments in evidence-based critical care.

Rapid Response System: A Practical Guide provides a practical approach to the evaluation, differential diagnosis, and management of common medical and surgical emergencies such as cardiac arrest, acute respiratory failure, seizures, and hemorrhagic shock occurring in hospitalized patients.

The Annual Update compiles reviews of the most recent developments in experimental and clinical intensive care and emergency medicine research and practice in one comprehensive reference book.

Management of Musculoskeletal Injuries in the Trauma Patient summarizes the most current concepts and clinical practices for the management of the patient with musculoskeletal traumatic injuries.

Plum and Posner's Diagnosis and Treatment of Stupor and Coma, 5th edition, is a major update of the classic work on diagnosing the cause of coma, with the addition of completely new sections on treatment of comatose patients, by Dr.

';Crammed with provocative insights, raw emotion, and heartbreaking dilemmas,' (The New York Times) First, Do No Harm is a powerful examination of how life and death decisions are made at a major metropolitan hospital in Houston, as told through the stories of doctors, patients, families, and hospital administrators facing unthinkable choices.

Leading experts in fluid management explain what you should know when providing infusion fluids to surgical and critical care patients.