Intensive care medicine

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.

This book is a clinical manual that covers the whole spectrum of swallowing and its disorders.

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.

This book describes the developments and improvements in electroencephalography (EEG).

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

Comprehensive manual providing clinicians with essential information about the pharmacologic principles and clinical use of all available pain medications.

This book provides a practically applicable guide to the use of ultrasound in the care of acutely and critically ill patients.

A one-stop reference for clinicians at all levels faced with uncommon problems in acute medicine.

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.

The acclaimed protocol-based guide to neurocritical care - essential for daily practice and the boardsAn immediate classic, this groundbreaking text is based on the premise that neurointensivists must be trained to handle not only the brain, but the entire body.

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

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

Medical Ventilator System Basics: A clinical guide is a user-friendly guide to the basic principles and the technical aspects of mechanical ventilation and modern complex ventilator systems.

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

Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) are a recent innovation in hospitals that makes critical care teams available to a nurse within seconds.

"e;This book contains a collection of the most recent insights regarding maternal morbidity and mortality and optimization of the care processes during acute critical illness.

Management of critically-ill trauma patients presents multiple challenges that are unique to this patient population.

This book serves as a guide to the pulmonary and critical care complications  of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).

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This is the only book that MCEM candidates will need to pass the MCEM Part A exam.

The groundbreaking text on critical care emergency medicine - updated with the latest evidence and recommendationsA Doody s Core Title for 2024 & 2021!

This updated second edition provides a concise and up-to-date guide to emergency brain CT scans.

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 the basis needed for a dialogue between intensivists and emergency surgeons regarding the management and monitoring of acute care surgery (ACS) patients who require Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission.

Since the beginning of mankind, medical emergencies have existed.

This comprehensively updated second edition features major revisions, 24 new chapters and more than 40 new authors, reflecting both the advances and key challenges within the field.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of highly infectious diseases (HIDs) in the ICU.

This book focuses on endovascular methods for resuscitation and trauma management.

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

This book focuses on the placement of vascular access devices under emergent conditions, including the techniques and devices needed to achieve successful device deployment in even the most critically-ill patient.

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

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.

This book is a clinical guide to controversial and emerging topics in pulmonary hypertension.

'Deeply affecting - a personal memoir that grips, harrows, inspires and, ultimately, uplifts with its vein of deep humanity' Philippe Sands'An extraordinarily frank book laced with humour and self-deprecation' The TimesAs a doctor on the intensive care unit at one of London's top hospitals, Jim Down has spent his life working as healthcare's last resort, where each day reveals a new challenge.

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

Rapid Response System: A Practical Guide provides a practical approach to the evaluation, differential diagnosis, and management of common medical and surgical emergencies such as cardiac arrest, acute respiratory failure, seizures, and hemorrhagic shock occurring in hospitalized patients.

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

This book provides practical advice on the management of severely ill psychiatric patients in secure hospital settings.

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

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

Concise anatomical text and descriptions of procedures are supported by high-quality, anatomical illustrations linked to clinical images.

A case-based approach to the intensive care medicine curriculum, with 48 case studies linking core knowledge to clinical context.

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.

Are you looking for the essentials you need to learn the basics of echography for anesthesiology, intensive care and emergency medicine?

This book provides a holistic and multi professional approach to maximising the chances of a successful recovery for the ICU patient surviving a period of critical illness.

Linking existing knowledge to new knowledge by presenting it in the form of a case or a problem is a popular and effective educational approach resulting in better retention of the knowledge and improved ability to apply that knowledge to solve real problems.

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

Emergency Medicine Board Review is a comprehensive guide for preparing for the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) certification or ConCert recertification exam, and for residents preparing for in-training examinations in Emergency Medicine.

Winner of a Christopher Awardnow with a discussion guide ';Perhaps one lesson to draw from the pandemic, with help from books like this one, is that the ICU experience can be changed for the better' (The Washington Post) for both patients and their families.