Intensive care medicine

There are few clinical problems in the sleep medicine field that are more challenging than the sleep difficulties experienced by individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

This book is an important new resource for clinicians caring for ventilator dependent children, who often have complex health care needs, are supported by advanced technology and are at  high-risk of serious complications.

This book presents a concise, evidence-based review of extracorporeal life support (ECLS) for adult diseases.

As space medicine evolved from the late 1950s onward, the need arose for a ready reference for students and practitioners on the basic concepts of this new specialty.

This text is designed to provide a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the major issues specific to technological advances the field trauma, critical care and many aspects of surgical science and practice.

This book provides an overview of pulmonary hypertensive diseases, the current understanding of their pathobiology, and a contemporary approach to diagnosis and treatment.

This manual provides a practical approach to operative trauma management.

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

This pocket atlas explains how to use pulmonary graphics as a valuable adjunct for patient management.

Trauma is the leading cause of death among people under the age of 40 and it ranks third for all age groups.

Clinical research in critical care has exploded in the past several years and we now have a much better understanding of how to care for intensive care unit (ICU) patients in areas such as management of sepsis, fluid resuscitation, mechanical ventilation, antibiotic administration and sedation and analgesia.

The origin of modern intensive care units (ICUs) has frequently been attributed to the widespread provision of mechanical ventilation within dedicated hospital areas during the 1952 Copenhagen polio epidemic.

This unique reference fulfills the unmet need of a textbook that addresses the scope of practice for surgeons practicing in rural regions.

This is a major revision, updating, and expansion of the leading single-source volume on pediatric sedation outside of the operating room.

The kidneys participate in all vital processes of the body to maintain overall homeostasis and health.

This volume is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review for clinicians with an interest in the peri-operative nutritional management of all surgical patients.

Ultrasound in the Intensive Care Unit explores the current state of evidence supporting use of bedside ultrasound for procedural guidance and for the critical care-focused assessment of a variety of organ systems.

Over the past 20 years, diagnostic tests for pediatric pulmonologists have revolutionized care of children afflicted with respiratory disorders.

This is a no-nonsense guide to drug treatment in the intensive care unit.

Neurointervention in the Medical Specialties is a first-of-its-kind reference that serves as a bridge between the neurointerventionalist and the physicians who most frequently look to these specialists for answers to some of the most intractable problems they face.

This book provides the reader with an understanding of human nutritional and metabolic physiology and how it goes wrong in illness.

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

Great progress has been made since the first description of the acute respiratory distress syndrome by the Denver group in 1967 (Lancet).

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Tracy McElligott is dying.

This book is the only published literature that comprehensively discusses all aspects of transfusion of transmissible diseases, the facts and the fiction.

Surgical Intensive Care Medicine has been specifically designed to be a practical reference for medical students and house officers to help manage the critically ill surgical patient.

The Update compiles the most recent, widespread developments of experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book.

Critical care medicine is a dynamic and exciting arena where complex pathophysiologic states requiring extensive knowledge and clinical acumen are commonly found.

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Covering a full range of topics from cardiovascular and pulmonary disease to ophthalmology, hematology and pediatrics, EVIDENCE-BASED DIAGNOSIS is the only single volume, quick reference designed for use in daily practice.

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The acute abdomen often perplexes the expert as well as the young physician.

A cutting-edge review of the fundamental biological principles underlying the more common inflammatory disorders of the nervous system.

This book serves as a unique, comprehensive resource for physicians and scientists training in pulmonary medicine and learning about pulmonary function testing.

From the unique position of a decade in government service, I was given the opportunity to observe the changes in the provision of emer- gency medical care across the country.

Currently blood is a volatile issue.

th It is a great pleasure for me to open the jubilee 25 International Symposium on Blood Transfusion here in Groningen.

Brain Injury is the second volume in the book series, Molecular and Cellular Biology of Critical Care Medicine.

Infections and their complications are a very Additionally, they have a responsibility to ensure important clinical area in the intensive care that nosocomial infections are prevented and unit setting.

In recent years much enthusiasm and energy has been directed toward the development of human gene therapies, especially for inherited conditions and cancers.

Heart transplantation remains one of the major scientific achievements of twentieth century medicine.

Much research over the past 30 to 40 years has shown that the inflammatory response, while critical for host defense during microbial infection, may itself play a central role in the pathogenesis of sepsis.

Acute lung injury (ALI) impacts patient care in every ICU in the world.

Infectious Complications in Transplant Patients has been uniquely designed and formatted to address issues and trends pertaining to pathogens deemed important in critically ill transplant patients.

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) continues to be one of the greatest challenges to critical care practitioners and one of the greatest threats to the survival of our patients.

Infection Control in the ICU Environment provides the details of the most common infection control problems facing intensive care units.

Fungal infections are an increasing problem in critically ill patients and these infections carry an attributable mortality that is much higher than corresponding bacterial infections.

This volume explores how the scarce resources of intensive care units should be distributed.