Accident and emergency medicine

Residents and junior doctors on rotation are under constant pressure to have accurate and up-to-date information available to them.

This book comprehensively addresses all aspects of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) in the ICU, emphasizing their control and management.

Die Zukunft hat begonnen - Halten Sie Schritt mit der rasanten Entwicklung!

Is there a unified definition of anesthesia?

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).

Always study with the most up-to-date prep!

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.

This book focuses on Flow-controlled Ventilation (FCV), the most recent innovation in the field of airway management and ventilation.

This book focuses on Flow-controlled Ventilation (FCV), the most recent innovation in the field of airway management and ventilation.

Enormous advances in information technology have permeated essentially all facets of life in the past two decades.

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.

During the past decade there has been a considerable expansion in the understanding, assessment and treatment of critically ill patients.

Nine years have passed since the first edition of Care of the Critically III Patient was published.

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.

Nephrology, initially born as a small branch of medicine, has, in the last few decades, become an extraordinary large field of medicine.

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 presents fifty clinical cases in neuro-ophthalmology, some of which are common and some of which are rare.

This handbook is a guide to best practice in interventions commonly encountered in the ICU.

The first edition of conflict and catastrophe was produced in 2002 and a second, successful edition, followed in 2009.

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.

It gives me great pleasure to have this opportunity to write a Foreword for this new book.

To be asked to prepare a second edition of a book is heartening for any author or editor.

Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine - A Practical Guide provides a framework for use by health professionals visiting a resource-constrained environment.

Is there a unified definition of anesthesia?

This book provides an insight into state-of-art developments in pulmonary drug delivery systems.

This book provides an insight into state-of-art developments in pulmonary drug delivery systems.

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

This is the first comprehensive study guide covering all aspects of pediatric critical care medicine.

Critical Care Clinicians can use general drug references (Micomedex, Lexicomp) for data on dosing of high-alert medications in special patient populations but these references are not available to all healthcare clinicians, they are expensive and they are not specific to high-alert medications or critically ill patients.

This book provides recommendations for evaluation and therapy in the area of acute pediatric neurology; these are presented didactically with frequent use of illustrations and algorithms.

Syncope represents a multidisciplinary issue in medicine, often involving cardiologists, neurologists, emergency medicine specialists, general practitioners , geriatricians and other clinicians.

Fundamentals of Surgical Simulation explains in detail, from a behavioural science/human factors perspective, why modern image guided medicine such as surgery, interventional cardiology and interventional radiology are difficult to learn and practice.

The critical care unit is an intense clinical environment with huge responsibilities on the professionals caring for these patients.

This book details the mechanisms of ventilator induced lung injury (VILI) at the alveolar level with the aim to identify optimal ventilation methods necessary to preserve lung function.