Intensive care medicine

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.

The Medical-Legal Aspects of Acute Care Medicine: A Resource for Clinicians, Administrators, and Risk Managers is a comprehensive resource intended to provide a state-of-the-art overview of complex ethical, regulatory, and legal issues of importance to clinical healthcare professionals in the area of acute care medicine; including, for example, physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and care managers.

This practical, comprehensive anatomy book arms FRCA candidates with detailed, robust anatomical knowledge via a question-based approach.

Acute Stroke Management in the First 24 hours bridges the clinical application gap by offering a practice-based approach to treating ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.

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

All physicians are involved in the management of pain at some level or the other, but of the various specialties and health professions, orthopedic surgeons are at the frontline of delivering perioperative pain care for a wide variety of problems that range from skeletal trauma, joint replacement procedures, bone tumors and spinal conditions.

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview on critical care administration.

Presents the most up-to-date clinical and experimental research in neurotrauma in an illustrated, accessible, comprehensive volume.

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

Comprehensive clinical text reference on all aspects of drug use in anesthesia and critical care.

This manual is aimed at all healthcare practitioners, from novice to expert, who care for the critically ill patient, recognising that different disciplines contribute to the provision of effective care and that essential knowledge and skills are shared by all practitioners.

The 2nd edition of this book describes the recent techniques, strategies, and drugs that have been demonstrated by multicenter randomized trials to influence survival in critically ill, defined as those who have acute failure of at least one organ, due to either a pathological condition or a medical intervention, and require intensive care treatment.

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.

Pediatric Intensive Care offers clinicians and trainees a concise, easy-to-carry resource on pediatric critical care medicine, designed for frequent and quick reference at the bedside, providing solutions to questions and situations encountered in practice.

A case-based guide with expert commentary, Challenging Concepts in Critical Care shows how the experts approach and deal with real-life clinical scenarios.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of critical care of the pediatric immunocompromised hematology-oncology patient.

Combines evidence-based practice and expert opinion to create a multidisciplinary resource for any healthcare professional managing patients with tracheotomies.

Modern critical care is characterized by the collection of large volumes of data and the making of urgent patient care decisions.

This book comprehensively addresses the use of pulmonary function measurement for the evaluation, screening and timing of noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIMV) from hospital to home care.

Saving lives through organ transplantation has become increasingly possible thanks to advances in research and care.

In recent years, substantial progress has been made in the approaches to diagnosis and treatment of severe liver diseases in the pediatric ICU, from various forms of liver failure and hepatitis to acute and chronic liver disease.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of critical care obstetrics.

Critical care is now a mandatory part of training for surgeons and physicians as well as anaesthetists.

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

This book describes the abnormal eye movements encountered in the critical care unit in everyday practice and elaborates on the mechanism and clinical significance behind them.

Pre- and post-operative care of transplant patients is an aspect of Critical Care Medicine in which most ICU physicians and nurses have received little or no formal training and are left to cope with this complex population with only incomplete "e;on the job experience"e; as a guide.

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

Trauma: A Comprehensive Emergency Medicine Approach is a comprehensive, fully illustrated, interdisciplinary overview of trauma written by expert contributors.

The purpose of this book is to bring together the latest findings on metabolic disorders that are strongly implicated in various critically ill patients.

Presents a practical and accessible approach to recognising and managing neurological emergencies in intensive care units quickly.

This book delineates that COVID-19 is a multisystem inflammatory disease and how its pathophysiology can predispose patients to an increased risk of neurological problems.

In its first edition, Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight established itself as the authoritative reference on the contemporary knowledge base of space medicine and standards of care for space flyers.

The critical care management of patients with life-threatening neurological conditions requires the ability to treat neurological injuries, manage medical complications and perform invasive procedures whilst balancing the management of the brain and the body.

The most concise, clinically oriented and easy-to-read book on emergency bedside ultrasound currently available.

A quick, concise and pertinent reference for the diagnosis and management of common pain syndromes for all healthcare providers.

This book comprehensively covers hand trauma from initial presentation to management.

This textbook is written at the dawn of a new era in the management of sepsis.

This textbook addresses the classical use of Transcranial Doppler (TCD) and Transcranial Color-Coded Duplex Sonography (TCCS), focusing on the usefulness of neurological monitoring beyond classical acute brain injuries present in the daily intensive care medical practice.

Reviews the full spectrum of disorders encountered in critical care units, including diagnosis, treatment, data interpretation and organisational issues.

This new and updated edition is a practical guide to intensive care for the non-specialist, providing the core knowledge and principles of intensive care patient management.

A convenient procedural guide covering the safe management of critical airway emergencies using case-based discussion, algorithms and practical instruction.

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

All anesthesiologists eventually face the fear of a "e;near miss,"e; when a patient's life has been put at risk.

This comprehensive volume provides clinicians with a better understanding of the correlation between sleep and mental illness.

Concise handbook discussing benefits and pitfalls of clinical information systems in the ICU, offering advice for local implementation and problem-solving.

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

The classic text in critical care medicine!

A tailor-made book of practice MCQs for the new FFICM exam, containing 270 MTF questions with full explanations and references.

Critical care medicine is responsible for many of the most important advances in outcomes after cardiothoracic surgery in the past two decades.

Cardiac Anesthesia: A Problem-Based Learning Approach provides a comprehensive review of the dynamic and ever-changing field of cardiac anesthesia.