Intensive care medicine

This book describes current, evidence-based guidelines for damage control interventions across the field of trauma care with the aim of enabling clinicians to apply them to best effect in daily clinical practice.

This atlas depicts and describes catheter-based interventions across the entire pediatric age range, from fetal life through to early adulthood, with the aim of providing an illustrated step-by-step guide that will help the reader to master these techniques and apply them in everyday practice.

This book offers up-to-date information on the recording and analysis of respiratory sounds that will assist in clinical routine.

 This text provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of this field, and will serve as a valuable resource for clinicians, surgeons and researchers with an interest in surgical critical care.

Those familiar with the 1st edition of this book from 2008 will recognize the original 62 cases that have been modernized with updated references and enjoy the addition of 41 brand new cases.

This textbook fills a gap in education for licensed practical nurses (LPN), providing information specific to their own needs and concerns.

This book presents a systematic approach to the potential pulmonary complications of various systemic non-pulmonary pediatric disorders.

This book, part of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine textbook series, teaches readers how to use hemodynamic monitoring, an essential skill for today's intensivists.

This book addresses the manifestation of lung disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

This work offers a comprehensive reference guide to help clinicians in the field of Internal Medicine addressing common aspects of endocrinological disorders in their daily practice.

Despite often taken as a simple procedure, techniques on tracheostomy have evolved considerably on the last few years.

This book focuses on the critical care of the patient with acute, acute on chronic and chronic liver failure as well as the peri-operative care of the patient with liver transplantation.

This book introduces the latest advances relating to the pathophysiology, biophysics, monitoring and treatment of traumatic brain injury, hydrocephalus, and stroke presented at the 16th International Conference on Intracranial Pressure and Neuromonitoring (the "e;ICP Conference"e;), held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in June 2016 in conjunction with the 6th Annual Meeting of the Cerebral Autoregulation Research Network.

This text uses cases  to illustrate differential diagnoses of various infectious diseases.

This practical question and answer book covers topics within the field of neurocritical care, including aspects of neurology, neurosurgery, general critical care, and emergency medicine.

This book is an unparalleled resource on neurologic emergencies.

Providing anesthesiology for liver surgery and especially liver transplantation is highly complex and requires profound expertise in the physiology and pathophysiology of liver disease.

This book provides healthcare professionals in Critical Care setting an easy consultation guide to fight against COVID-19.

The purpose of this book is to bring together the latest findings on metabolic disorders that are strongly implicated in various critically ill patients.

This clinical handbook is designed to aid with the fast and accurate diagnosis of cardiopulmonary disease.

This book addresses the wide range of issues that face the program leader - from how to choose a site and how to negotiate for equipment, to how to determine staffing requirements and how to anticipate and defuse possible turf issues with other programs and services in the hospital or healthcare facility.

This revised fourth edition provides a concise guide to the clinical and operational issues surrounding the management of the ballistic casualty.

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic state-of-the science review of major primary care delivery models, how they address specific needs of older adults, and available evidence for their efficacy.

The book is a useful guide to the management of the most-debated hot topics of practical interest in anesthesia and intensive care.

This book presents case-based descriptions of models for the inclusive, multispecialty and multidisciplinary clinical care of complex cases.

This book describes the approach to anesthetic and perioperative management in different categories of high-risk patient scheduled to undergo elective noncardiac surgery.

Expanded with six additional chapters and new study questions, this updated edition provides a clear and concise understanding of the fundamentals of fluid, electrolyte and acid-base disorders that are frequently encountered in clinical practice.

This book is a concise manual on debriefing techniques in a clinical educational context.

This book examines in detail the topic of sepsis, with a focus on intra-abdominal sepsis.

After the success of the first two editions, this expanded and extensively revised edition provides the interventional cardiologist with detailed, state of the art information on key techniques and approaches to percutaneous treatment of left side cardiac valve disease, keeping pace with the rapid and dynamic evolution in the discipline.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to delivering analgesia and sedation to critically ill patients for professionals and caregivers being involved in the management of these patients.

This book discusses the interpretation of mechanical ventilator waveforms.

This book offers a pragmatic approach to day-to-day metabolic and nutritional care based on physiological considerations.

This new edition offers comprehensive coverage of all areas of interventional pulmonology, a minimally invasive endoscopic method for diagnosing and treating lung disorders.

This book discusses, explains and provides detailed, up-to-date information on physics applied to clinical practice in anesthesiology, with the aid of simple examples from daily life.

The ACMT National Case Conference (NCC) is a monthly discussion of novel or interesting cases in medical toxicology.

Extending from the outpatient management of cardiovascular and kidney disease, to hospital-based decision making in patients with cardio-renal disease and complex interfaces such as hemodialysis in patients with ventricular assist device support, this book serves as a single reference point for cardiology and nephrology clinicians and researchers dealing with the significant overlap areas between these two specialties.

This book offers focused and concise coverage of all issues relating to malnutrition in the field of neurology, and in particular addresses practical aspects of nutritional support from a neurology perspective.

This book is an unparalleled source of cutting-edge information on every aspect of rescue, trauma management, and fracture care in the polytrauma/multiple injured patient.

Acute Care General Surgery provides a succinct  focused overview of a myriad of general surgical emergencies.

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.

This book provides essential insights into how the approach to nursing care in ICU patients has markedly changed over recent years.

Divided into twelve sections that cover the entirety of anesthetic practice, this is a case-based, comprehensive review of anesthesiology that covers the basics of anesthetic management and reflects all new guidelines and recently developed standards of care.

This book presents pulmonary outcomes of prematurity, from their emergence in infancy through to their consequences in adulthood.

This book aims to equip the reader to make optimal decisions on the use of mechanical ventilatory support in critically ill cancer patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) and to implement the different strategies effectively.

This book is the first to describe a practical evidence-based approach to the management of critically ill obese patients with various medical or postoperative respiratory problems in the intensive care unit.

With the expertise of an author panel of leading clinicians in the field of surgery, trauma, critical care and geriatrics the new edition of this text addresses the explosion in knowledge on the impact aging has on injury, acute illness and critical care management.

By utilizing a review of case-based studies and providing concise management recommendations from leaders in the field, this book provides essential knowledge for those practicing in a dynamic specialty.

This book is designed to provide a comprehensive and state-of-the-art resource for clinicians who care for patients with sepsis and research scientist alike, .

This book is the first available practical manual on the open abdomen.