Accident and emergency medicine

This book provides a comprehensive guide to delivering analgesia and sedation to critically ill patients for professionals and caregivers being involved in the management of these patients.

This book is aimed at surgeons faced with the immediate management of acute surgical problems in a variety of resource settings.

This superbly illustrated book describes a comprehensive and modern approach to the imaging of abdominal and pelvic emergencies of traumatic and non-traumatic origin.

Health care in the twenty-first century requires intensive use of technology in order to acquire and analyze data and manage and disseminate information.

This book discusses the interpretation of mechanical ventilator waveforms.

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Tools for Neuroscience Research and Emerging Clinical Applications is the first comprehensive book for non-physicists that addresses the emerging and exciting technique of magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

This atlas depicts and describes catheter-based interventions across the entire pediatric age range, from fetal life through to early adulthood, with the aim of providing an illustrated step-by-step guide that will help the reader to master these techniques and apply them in everyday practice.

This book is the very first to cover the decompression theory in detail.

This practically oriented book provides an up-to-date overview of all significant aspects of the pathogenesis of sepsis and its management, including within the intensive care unit.

This book is a practical guide for health care professionals encountering medical emergencies during commercial flight.

Medical Imaging Technology reveals the physical and materials principles of medical imaging and image processing, from how images are obtained to how they are used.

This is a practical book for any health professional working with refugee children and families in various settings, from the initial humanitarian crisis, through displacement, living in camps, transfer between countries, settling in host countries, to return to the country of origin.

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.

This book outlines the many anesthesia-related obstacles, concerns, and challenges that may be encountered by western trained anesthesiologist in low-resourced settings.

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 offers an essential guide to managing the most-debated hot topics of practical interest in anesthesia and intensive care.

This volume provides an overview of the most important current controversies in the field of pediatric intensive care.

This extensively revised new edition comprehensively reviews the medical and surgical management of the acutely-ill child with congenital and acquired cardiac disease.

This book covers all aspects of modern techniques used in the rapidly developing field of adult critical care echocardiography, 3D transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, myocardial tissue velocity and deformation assessment, and contrast echocardiography.

The second edition of this highly successful book includes up-to-date notes on the step-wise management of clinical emergencies encountered in everyday intensive care units (ICU).

This book covers several areas, such as immunology, infectious diseases, physiology, general nursing, and medicine as well as measurement accuracy and the history of our understanding of fever.

This book is an invaluable resource for the diagnosis and management of neurological illnesses in the emergency setting.

This handbook covers the principles of mechanical ventilation, making them easy to understand and apply in clinical settings.

This well-illustrated book describes a practical approach to the primary management of patients who have multiple injuries, or polytrauma, with the aim of providing medical and paramedical personnel with the knowledge required in order to achieve optimal clinical outcomes.

This practical and timely book provides comprehensive, state-of-the-art guidance on how primary care clinicians can best care for patients with substance use disorders.

Ocular Emergency is a systematic, symptom based reference book for clinical practice guidance.

Pocket-sized and portable, the Manual of Traumatic Brain Injury Management provides relevant clinical information in a succinct, readily accessible format.

As provider networks on military bases are overwhelmed with new cases, civilian clinicians are increasingly likely to treat military families.

This handbook considers topics that have general application to the critically ill patient.

This book presents the best practice, indications and drugs most used in the practice of noninvasive ventilation (NIV).

Intensive care patients are the most critically ill in any hospital and they are a patient group that utilises a disproportionate amount of medical resources.

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

The Routledge International Handbook of Changes in Human Perceptions and Behaviors is the first edited volume to present multidisciplinary perspectives on various aspects of changes that humans experience.

The field of transplant medicine has evolved significantly since the first kidney transplant was performed in 1954.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the unique clinical entities of diseases in older patients.

The world's leading resource on trauma surgery- with an expanded full-color atlasA Doody's Core Title for 2017!

The fully updated fifth edition of this highly successful textbook provides an integrated symptom- and issue-based approach to internal medicine with easily accessible, high-yield clinical information.

This book uses real-world clinical case analyses of hot topics to provide insights into noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIV).

This book comprehensively reviews LM revascularization, one of themost technically challenging and prognostically relevant topics forcardiologists.

This book showcases state-of-the-art techniques as well as various clinical, technical and non-technical skills.

The main aim of this book is to offer an easy tool to read a scientific article with greater awareness, to understand and evaluate it more thoroughly, and to better plan research.

This book describes a fully integrated approach to the management of elderly patients who are at risk of or suffer trauma, drawing on up-to-date knowledge from multiple specialties in recognition of the fact that the number and severity of comorbidities in this population requires expertise in many fields.

Respiratory care is the largest overall component of neonatal intensive care, and the fifth edition of the Manual of Neonatal Respiratory Care is the leading bedside guide for all aspects of respiratory care in the neonatal intensive care unit.

This comprehensive update of the previous two successful editions covers both basic and advanced anesthesia topics.

This book aims at filling a gap in relation to the pathophysiology of the inguinal region and the genesis of groin protrusions.

This book presents a systematic summary of a series of achievements of blast injury studies in China and the latest progress in blast injury treatment including injuries caused by various explosion accidents (such as coal mine gas explosion, and chemical explosion) and terrorist bombing around the world over the past three decades.

75% of patients who die from trauma have injuries to the chest.