Intensive care medicine

Gives anaesthetists key information on obstetric practice to assist in anaesthesia during pregnancy and delivery.

This edition provides a convenient resource for practitioners suddenly faced with a parturient who has an unusual medical or surgical condition.

The latest volume in this successful series presents a collection of cutting-edge topics for anaesthetists.

Guide to drug prescribing for doctors, nurses and medical professionals caring for critically ill patients.

An invaluable syllabus-based study aid for trainees taking the Transoesophageal Echocardiography written exam.

A one-stop reference for all medical professionals who encounter ethicolegal problems during their management of patients.

A comprehensive 2006 volume on the theories and applications of evidence-based anaesthesia and critical care.

An authoritative account of all aspects of perioperative care for surgical patients.

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

This book provides Nurse Practitioners working in the field of Acute Medicine with an up to date, practical, and comprehensive guide to the management of acute medical patients.

Following the publication of the department of health document - Comprehensive Critical Care (2000), the majority of hospitals in England have set up Critical Care Outreach Teams.

Although most clinicians are aware of the problem of antimicrobial resistance, most also underestimate its significance in their own hospital.

Successor to the editors' groundbreaking book on medical emergency teams, Textbook of Rapid Response Systems addresses the problem of patient safety and quality of care; the logistics of creating an RRS (resource allocation, process design, workflow, and training); the implementation of an RRS (organizational issues, challenges); and the evaluation of program results.

Why write a book on the management of critically ill patients?

The Difficult Airway provides a comprehensive textual and visual coverage of how to deal with patients who have expected or unexpected difficult airways.

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

Bedside Procedures for the Intensivist delivers practical tips and clear, step-by-step instruction on the most common procedures in the ICU.

The most common problems for which patients present to the Emergency Department are neurological disorders, including stroke, syncope, back pain and headache.

Textbook of Pulmonary Vascular Diseases combines basic scientific knowledge on the pulmonary circulatory system at levels of the molecule, cell, tissue, and organ with clinical diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary vascular diseases.

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

Critical care medicine is a dynamic and exciting arena where complex pathophysiologic states require extensive knowledge and up-to-date clinical information.

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

We are honored to present the second edition of Surgical Intensive Care Medicine.

The last of an ongoing series of Cardiostim monographs all devoted to cardiac pacing, was published four years ago.

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

Talking to patients and their families about end-of-life issues can be difficult and stressful.

The genesis of this project is a direct result of the fact that there is no substantive textbook that addresses the full-spectrum of surgical emergencies.

There are few situations in anesthesia where precise anatomic location is more important than in regional anesthesia.

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

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

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Why Critical Care Evolved METs?

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In the past, many tropical and parasitic infections were confined to tropical areas of the world located between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind -John Donne 1 In 1988 Belhouse and Dore estimated that as many as 600 people died every year from complications of airway management in the developed world.

A new field of medicine has emerged as a result of the global proliferation of terrorism.

This handbook is aimed at first-line health care providers involved in the perioperative care of adult and pediatric neurosurgical patients.

Principles of Airway Management, 4th Edition, reviews the essential aspects of airway management: anatomy, equipment, intubation, fiberoptic endoscopy, surgical approaches, intubating LMA (lightwand), pediatric airway, CPR, and mechanical ventilation.

This comprehensive guide provides tips and instruction for the entire range of specialists that utilize pediatric sedation.

In this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editor Paul Bergl brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Diagnostic Excellence in the ICU.

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

This issue of Critical Care Clinics, Guest Edited by Dr.

This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on two crucial topics: Enhanced Recovery in the ICU After Cardiac Surgery (guest edited by Dr.

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

In the highly specialized field of caring for children in the PICU, Fuhrman and Zimmerman's Pediatric Critical Care is the definitive reference for all members of the pediatric intensive care team.

This issue of Physician Assistant Clinics, guest edited by Kim Zuber, PA-C and Jane S.

With collaboration from Consulting Editor, Dr.

This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Rapid Response Systems and Fluid Resuscitation, with topics including: RRS Now; Triggering Criteria: Big Data; Triggering Criteria: Continuous Monitoring; Measuring instability; Surgery/Trauma RRT; Obstetric RRT; Difficult airway rapid response teams; and Sepsis rapid response teams.

Al igual que en la edición anterior, la nueva edición incluye un número significativo de vídeos (407) y animaciones intercaladas en el texto (88), que reflejan situaciones reales y que proporcionan al lector una vía de aprendizaje práctico necesaria para la correcta utilización de la ecografía.

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