Accident and emergency medicine

This two-volume book offers a comprehensive guide to anesthetic management and critical care management in neurosurgical and neurological patients.

Acute management of children with liver disease and liver transplantation has rapidly evolved over the last two decades due to worldwide availability of complex liver surgery and liver transplantation.

This book presents a valuable new perspective on Post-Cardiac Arrest Syndrome (PCAS), which was defined as system failure following whole-body ischemia-reperfusion injuries by the 2008 International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation.

This book presents 57 typical cases of neuro-ophthalmic diseases in the emergency room, which represent notoriously complex and difficult challenges for junior doctors.

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

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 book is designed to offer the reader first-rate guidance on shock management in the real world.

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

This book approaches the topic of management of acute ischemic stroke in an interdisciplinary manner, explaining how best to utilize the methods currently available for medical, surgical, and endovascular care.

This book investigates the profound and complex impact of the opioid epidemic on schools in the United States, focusing on diverse aspects such as its history, legislative responses, trends, and implications for students, educators, and schools.

Se plantean revisiones inicialmente en el área de reanimación cardio-cerebro-pulmonar.

El presente texto promete ser una herramienta teorica para facilitar el acercamiento a los contenidos basicos requeridos para la aplicacion de los primeros auxilios como una medida que salva vidas.

Este texto se constituye en una guía de consulta rápida y fácil que mejora y facilita la actitud de los estudiantes de medicina.

In this needed practice and training guide for all mental health professionals, Froma Walsh presents a research-informed, resilience-oriented approach to help individuals, couples, and families who experience profound loss.

This is a comprehensive book in burn surgery, written by 25 experts in China.

This book discuss a series of earthquake emergency medical rescue complex models, which can provide theoretical support for medical disaster rescue work in the future.

Cardiovascular diseases are the most important causes of death in the world today.

The Handbook of Hospital Medicine was originally conceived by Dr Mitchell as a guide for junior medical staff working in his own unit.

Internists, surgeons, critical care physicians and nephrologists all treat critically ill patients with renal failure and the multiple system organ dysfunction syndrome.

I felt highly honoured when I was asked to write about the achievements of my late brother, Dr Frank Wilson, MB, BS(Lond.

Intracranial injury, caused by a transorbital penetrating object, is a neglected topic in neurosurgery.

An up-to-date account of the use of the gastrointestinal hormone glucagon in different clinical emergencies.

Albumin is the most abundant serum protein produced by the liver.

Provision of efficient resuscitation is mandatory to the success- ful functioning of all hospital wards and departments.

The backbone of in-patient care is the hospital ward, and I believe that this will remain so in the future.

The dimensions of the socio-economic problem represented by ischemic heart disease require a concentration of effort for its treatment and prevention at least comparable to that in program for neoplastic disease.

Although there are many books on ischemic heart disease and myocardial in- farction, very few relate to the acute phase of the illness.

The aim of this book is to provide a practical guide to help junior doctors to manage the important acute paediatric problems they are likely to encounter.

A comprehensive text of intensive care would readily fill the equivalent of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

There is a tendency of an increasing number of signals and derived variables to be incorporated in the monitoring of patients during anesthesia and in intensive care units.

Serious disturbances of fluid and electrolyte balance are frequently encountered in acutely ill patients; somewhat less often in the chronically sick.

This volume represents a review of recent work presented by eminent scientists at the Second International Symposium on 'Applied Physiology in Critical Care with Emphasis on Children' at Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, November 28 - 2 December, 1983.

The expense of critical care and emergency medicine, along with widespread expectations for good care when the need arises, pose hard moral and political problems.

During the last 20 years two groups of investigators have concerned themselves with the problem of acid-base regulation at various body temperatures.

When someone has successfully completed a Standard First Aid Course, they often have a desire to extend their knowledge of first aid.

Intensive Care Medicine has been continuously growing and expanding, culturally, technically and geographically.

In spite of today's increasing body of knowledge in regard to central nervous func- tion and/or the mode of action of centrally active compounds, little is done to monitor those patients which are at risk of cerebral lesions either in the OR or in the ICU.

Dr.

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This volume is published with a triple aim: to take a look back over the advances during the ten years of the Mediterranean Burns Club and mark its anniversary; to follow up and strengthen the successful twin- ning of burns as a clinical, individual illness problem and fires as a societal, disaster management problem; and to look ahead at the per- spectives of burn care and fire prevention in the fast-approaching new century.

The provision of optimal dialysis therapy to children requires a thorough understanding of the multi-disciplinary manner in which the pediatric patient is affected by renal insufficiency.

This book focuses on defence against biological warfare with an emphasis on applications of modern technologies and advanced materials in detection, health protection and medical treatment of the population.

Single Subject Designs in Biomedicine draws upon the rich history of single case research within the educational and behavioral research settings and extends the application to the field of biomedicine.

Finally - a book that covers all aspects of the illicit use of cocaine, amphetamines, ecstasy and/or designer drugs such as GHB, written by two experts in their field.

The terrorist act with sarin gas in the Tokyo underground and the case with the spread of anthrax spores through the U.

De specifieke taak van de Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in het ziekenhuis is het bewaken en zo nodig tijdelijk vervangen van een of meer vitale functies in díe situaties waar kans op herstel bestaat.