This book brings together basic scientists or clinicians from a variety of different backgrounds - immunology, infectious diseases or critical care - who share a common interest in understanding the changes that occur in immune responses in sepsis.
Das Wissen um die speziellen physiologischen, pathophysiologischen und pharmakodynamischen Reaktionen des Frühgeborenen, reifen Neugeborenen, Säuglings, Kleinkindes und älteren Kindes ist eine Grundvoraussetzung für einen speziellen Bereich der Anästhesie, die Kinderanästhesie.
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.
A user-friendly, pocket-sized reference for all physicians faced with endocrine care and challenges in hospitalized patients, this handbook covers the most common issues leading to an inpatient endocrine consult, providing differential diagnoses, a reasonable and practical approach to investigating and managing the condition, and advice for follow-up.
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.
This book presents to all those who are interested in the history of Anaesthesiology historical details and information on the development of anaesthesiology in Germany and the remarkable growth of our Society.
Comprehensive manual providing clinicians with essential information about the pharmacologic principles and clinical use of all available pain medications.
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.
Quality and Safety in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care offers practical suggestions for improving quality of care and patient safety in the perioperative setting.
This book covers all aspects of modern techniques used in the rapidly developing field of adult critical care echocardiography, 3D transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, myocardial tissue velocity and deformation assessment, and contrast echocardiography.
This book assesses the main features of COVID-19 from a clinical point of view, based on observations made during the disease epidemic in Northern Italy, one of the most affected areas in the world (the region has been the epicenter of the global pandemic for more than a month), and the first region outside China facing overwhelming numbers of cases.
This revised and expanded second edition presents the most recent evidence-based facts on perioperative fluid management and discusses fluid management from basic sciences to clinical applications and the patients' outcomes.
During the last decade a multitude of studies concerning the dynamic changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF), cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMRO2), and intracranial pressure (ICP) in the acute phase after head injury have been published.
This book is a detailed practical guide to the use of ventricular assist devices and total artificial hearts to provide mechanical circulatory support (MCS) in patients with end-stage heart failure.
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.
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.
Acute management of children with liver disease and liver transplantation has rapidly evolved over the last two decades due to worldwide availability of complex liver surgery and liver transplantation.
Ärzte und andere Fachpersonen müssen im klinischen Alltag mit Angehörigen oft Gespräche führen über lebensbedrohliche Verletzungen, Prognose von Krankheiten oder die Mitteilung über den Tod eines Familienmitgliedes meist ohne darauf vorbereitet worden zu sein.
Für Bewusstseinsstörungen wie Synkope, Koma, Stupor oder Delir gibt es nicht immer eine offensichtliche Erklärung wie Schlaganfall, Trauma oder neoplastische Ursachen.
This book focuses on the circumstances that lead to the marked increasedvulnerability of seniors and are most challenging to clinicians including thepresence of multiple chronic medical conditions, variable losses ofphysiological function, and heterogeneity among individuals.
This book, now in its 2nd edition, discusses, explains and provides detailed, up-to-date information on physics applied to clinical practice in anesthesiology and critical care medicine, with the aid of simple examples from daily life.
Lungen-, Herz-, Leber- oder Nierenversagen– in diesem Handbuch erhalten Sie einen fundierten Gesamtüberblick über die wichtigsten Organunterstützungsverfahren.
Reviews the full spectrum of disorders encountered in critical care units, including diagnosis, treatment, data interpretation and organisational issues.
SHARPEN YOUR CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS AND IMPROVE PATIENT CAREExperience with clinical cases is key to mastering the art and science of medicine and ultimately to providing patients with competent clinical care.
