Although no single approach answers all of the challenges confronting our public health system, the book fulfills many of the requirements by providing: - Point-of-care decision support for physicians, other health care workers, and first responders when confronted with suspected public health diseases and conditions; - A common format and lexicon for all persons and entities involved in public health decisions and for ease of real-time data collection; and - A means for mass education of health care professionals and first responders about specific diseases and conditions.
In the network of cardiologists within the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology there is a strong view that the time indeed is right to publish definitively on the methods involved in cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation.
Increased recognition of the overlap between critical care and renal medicine, and recent advances in the understanding of acute renal failure and the application of renal replacement therapies, have brought increased attention to the nephrologist's role in the intensive care unit (ICU).
The treatment of pediatric patients with congenital or acquired cardiac disease remains an important challenge for physicians in charge of these often p- carious patients.
Ballistic Trauma: A Practical Guide provides a concise guide to the clinical and operational issues surrounding the management of the ballistic casualty.
Infective endocarditis is a condition that still carries a high morbidity and mortality rate (20-30%) despite modern antibiotics and surgical treatment.
Major surgical societies have been publishing perioperative recommendations for over half a century, based on committees conducting reviews of the literature.
The purpose of this title is to provide a comprehensive foundation for all medical professionals and healthcare-professions students in understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This first edition of this text was the first book to comprehensively survey the challenges in understanding and working with families whose loved ones are critically ill.
This book highlights the disparity between the growing number of women entering medical school and their underrepresentation in leadership roles within Critical Care and perioperative medicine.
This first edition of this text was the first book to comprehensively survey the challenges in understanding and working with families whose loved ones are critically ill.
Whether switching on the TV, picking up a newspaper or simply logging on to the internet, one is constantly faced with images of natural disasters, conflict and human suffering.
The book will provide some basic aspects of the pathophysiology of infection, but essentially the book will be practical-based and use case-illustrations to highlight key aspects of diagnosis, management and prevention.
Handbook of Blood Gas/Acid-Base Interpretation, 2nd edition, simplifies concepts in blood gas/acid base interpretation and explains in an algorithmic fashion the physiological processes for managing respiratory and metabolic disorders.
Therapeutic hypothermia has emerged as a very important treatment option for patients with cardiac arrest as it provides significant protection from developing neurologic injury once the patient has been successfully resuscitated.
The 1992 International Yearbook of Nephrology is the 4th in a successful series of yearly books updating practising nephrologists and nephrologists-in-training on rapidly changing areas of nephrology.
A Second Edition of this handbook of drugs used in pediatric cardiac care will satisfy the need for a quick up-to-date reference source of common drug therapy.
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Cerebrovascular Diseases is an up-to-date, comprehensive review of the neuropsychiatry of stroke, by active authorities in the field, with an emphasis on diagnostic and management issues.
This book has a twofold purpose, first to provide information for beginners about the pitalls and hazards of anaesthesia and second to help the occasional anaesthetist in remote areas when confronted with requests to anaesthetise for unfamiliar surgical operations.
Post-Operative Recovery and Pain Relief describes the major problems that may be encountered during recovery from anaesthesia and suggest how they may be avoided by careful monitoring, vigilant nursing and sound organization.
Strongly recommended for the surgical trainee this, thesecond of a number of atlas-texts describing the anatomicalbasis of a range of common surgicalprocedures, is a usefulaide-memoir to operative surgery
A workshop was organised in order to achieve multi-discipli-nary review of the pathogenesis and management of acutefailure, particularly as it occurs and is managed inintensive therapy units.
Developments in surgery have enabled more ambitious operations to be attempted than ever before, while similar advances in anaesthesia and monitoring have meant that many patients who were previously considered unfit now undergo surgery.
This little book has been written primarily for the senior house officer in Accident and Emergency and the registrar pursuing a career in the specialty.
Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine - A Practical Guide provides a framework for use by health professionals visiting a resource-constrained environment.
