Intensive care medicine

This text covers basic principles and practice of on-call psychiatric care in the geriatric patient in various medical settings.

Including comprehensive coverage of health disparities commonly encountered in pediatric and adult pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine, Achieving Respiratory Health Equality in the United States provides a definitive reference on this prominent issue.

Änderungen der Lebensqualität sind im Alter auf Grund biologischer Veränderungen und durch verschiedene Krankheiten gegeben.

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

Die anästhesiologische Betreuung älterer und sehr alter Patienten im Rahmen von Elektiv- oder Notfalloperationen stellt den Anästhesisten vor eine Fülle von ungelösten Fragen und Problemen.

This book aims to be a single point of reference for advances in the care of geriatric populations across medical and surgical specialties.

This book offers an essential guide to managing the most heatedly debated topics of practical interest in anesthesia and intensive care.

This new edition provides a fully updated guide to obesity's relation to lung disease.

Herzrhythmusstörungen sind in der Intensiv-und Notfallmedizin nicht selten, stellen aber die behandelnden Ärzte aufgrund der Komplexität von Diagnostik und Therapie supraventrikulärer und ventrikulärer Arrhythmien häufig vor große Probleme.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of all stages of pulmonary embolism, starting with acute and ending with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.

50 Studies Every Intensivist Should Know presents key studies that have shaped the practice of critical care medicine.

Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) is the standard of care for management of critically ill patients with acute renal failure.

This book has been thoroughly updated and expanded, with additional contributions from experts in the field.

This guide provides practical information for the care of patients with blunt injuries.

The first edition of this publication was aimed at defining the current concepts of trauma induced coagulopathy by critically analyzing the most up-to-date studies from a clinical and basic science perspective.

This book provides a comprehensive and concise, review of the fundamental concepts and clinical indications for Transcranial Doppler (TCD) imaging.

Andreas Meiser summarizes the current literature on inhalation sedation of critically ill patients.

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.

Noninvasive mechanical ventilation has managed to establish itself as the treatment option for a wide variety of causes of acute and chronic respiratory failure in different settings in hospital and home noninvasive mechanical ventilation.

This book provides guidance for physicians confronted with acute neurological crises in the context of patient safety centred practice standards.

In der gründlich überarbeiteten zweiten Auflage werden in nunmehr 35 Kapiteln die theoretischen Grundlagen des postoperativen Schmerzes (Physiologie, Messung, Auswirkungen), der systemischen Pharmakologie sowie der Lokal- und Regionalanästhesie und alternativer Methoden dargestellt; ausführliche Reviews der derzeitigen Kenntnisse und praktische Empfehlungen für die klinische Routine schließen sich an.

This comprehensive third edition provides robust support to clinicians providing perioperative care for patients.

This second edition offers updated and revised information on vessel health and preservation (VHP).

Intensivmedizin verstehen und in der Praxis anwenden.

This book comprehensively reviews the concept, epidemiology, management strategy, possible therapy and future considerations of children requiring continuous ventilatory support.

This book is unique in approaching multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) from the perspective of its pathophysiological mechanism, and addressing aspects that are overlooked in most of the available literature.

The VIth World Congress of Anaesthesiology, held in Mexico City in 1976, offered several European participants the opportunity of discovering their community of views.

This book assesses the most appropriate forms of aerosol therapy for critically ill patients.

This book, part of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine textbook series,  provides detailed up-to-date information on the physical, cognitive, and psychological impairments that are frequently present following a stay in an intensive care unit and examines in depth the available preventive and therapeutic strategies, including adapted rehabilitation programs.

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).

Covers essential information on maths, physics and clinical measurement for anaesthesia and critical care.

The goal of the first edition of Interventional Critical Care: A Manual for Advanced Care Practitioners was to fill a knowledge gap of the advanced practice provider (APP) specifically regarding the skills and understanding of critical care procedures in response to the rapidly expanding participation of APPs in critical care.

This book approaches the topic of management of acute ischemic stroke in an interdisciplinary manner, explaining how best to utilize the methods currently available for medical, surgical, and endovascular care.

This book presents a comprehensive survey in which internationally recognized experts discuss specific topics.

This book illustrates and discusses key points related to intra- and postoperative complications of brain, spine and peripheral nerve surgery, and covers the majority of neurosurgical subspecialties, including skull base surgery, brain tumor surgery, vascular and endovascular neurosurgery, neuroendoscopy, functional neurosurgery, spine surgery, peripheral nerve surgery, radiosurgery and radiotherapy.

In this book, the recent developments in immunology and the impact on the treatment of infections in critical care and in surgery are presented, also describing how cellular immunology influences clinical treatment.

The manuscripts in this book were generated from a conference occurring at the University of Heidelberg in September 1996.

Kurz vor dem Ende der Fachweiterbildung und die Prüfung steht bevor?

In Pediatric Critical Review, Board certified pediatric critical care physicians uniquely capture the essence of the most common critical care scenarios in a series of carefully crafted questions and answers.

This text provides a concise, yet comprehensive overview of telemedicine in the ICU.

This book is unique in providing a comprehensive overview of the human factors issues relevant to patient safety during acute care.

This book aims to cover the important pediatric ophthalmic diagnoses that present in the emergency room.

This concise, accessible text demystifies all aspects of the cardiothoracic critical care unit and cardiothoracic patient management.

This book documents how nurses have shown their dedication, courage, expertise and compassion in helping communities prepare for, respond to and recover from disastrous events.