Respiratory system and artificial ventilation are key topics when considering the main aspects of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine: assisted ventilation techniques are essential to preserve the patient's life, but just as any other treatments they can be also extremely pernicious.
More than 20 years ago it was recognized by Stoutenbeek and colleagues that patients in the intensive care unit suffered from infections developed whilst being treated.
L’occlusione meccanica dell’intestino tenue rappresenta una problematica clinica di frequente riscontro, la cui gestione clinico-strumentale è resa difficile dalla complessità dei meccanismi responsabili del quadro occlusivo.
La respirazione meccanica è una procedura con cui ogni medico di medicina intensiva e ogni specializzando nelle discipline sia chirurgiche che di medicina generale si deve quotidianamente confrontare.
Developing sectors in the intensive care field - and in critical care medicine in general - require specific levels of competence having a same common denominator: an in-depth knowledge of human pathophysiology.
Progress in the field of medicine over the last 50 years has led to important results for society, both in terms of prevention and in the treatment of single or variously associated pathologies.
In modern medicine the most functional methodologies are taking an increasing importance in spreading informations, rendering it credible while at the same time using reliable data to focus interaction between basic science and clinical medicine.
This volume is published under the auspices of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive Care Medicine, which consists of 48 members societies (both medical and nursing) - a truly world wide organisation - and whose aim is to promote excellence in the care of critically ill patients.
The most comprehensive guide to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with clients in crisis is now in a significantly revised fourth edition with 75% new material.
Más allá de las modas y determinados enfoques muy deportivos del yoga, el conocimiento sanador y espiritual de los antiguos yoguis indios sigue siendo valiosísimo en la búsqueda de formas de crecimiento personal y mejora de la salud holística de la sociedad del siglo XXI.
Esta obra pretende acercar al lector al concepto de trauma, mostrando que este es mucho más que uno o varios episodios de acontecimientos extremos, y que está presente en lo común de nuestra experiencia de una forma más frecuente de lo que quizás alcanzamos a ver; afectándonos individual, social y globalmente y abarcando un amplio espectro de nuestra existencia.
El Manual de crisis de anestesia tiene como objetivo principal servir de "ayuda cognitiva" inmediata a los profesionales que se enfrentan a situaciones de crisis tanto en el quirófano como vinculadas a pacientes críticos.
- Este libro permite consultar de forma fácil y rápida cualquier patología, tanto ortopédica como traumática y obtener orientaciones diagnósticas y criterios acerca del tratamiento de cada caso.
Nueva edición de la obra Compendio de Medinina de urgencias que se convierte en el complemento ideal de la 5ª edición de la obra Medicina de urgencias y emergencias: guía diagnóstica y protocolos de actuación.
A pesar de sus justificaciones y de los mitos belicistas embellecedores, la guerra es una de las empresas humanas más antihumanas y que más nos empobrecen a nivel personal, social y ecológico.
Muchas personas no llegan a vivir su sexualidad en congruencia con su identidad por haber sufrido traumas sexuales, traumas de relación y traumas de amor.
Desde los servicios de urgencias hospitalarias, los dispositivos de apoyo y las consultas de atencion primaria se atienden a infinidad de pacientes con diversas patologias diariamente, en las que parte de su tratamiento, cuando son dados de alta, es la educacion sanitaria, un importante pilar de apoyo a la prescripcion medica; aportandoles habitos de vida saludables en algunas ocasiones y que muchas veces no son considerados importantes y se omiten o no se consiguen aportar correctamente, de forma que el paciente puede quedar sin una parte importante del tratamiento, generando multiples consultas en los diferentes servicios tanto de atencion primaria como de urgencias hospitalarias, en su tarea diaria al considerar cuando los pacientes estan preparados para ser dados de alta a su domicilio y precisan prescribir aquellas medidas y habitos que sirvan de apoyo al tratamiento farmacologico, a la par que mejorar su calidad de vida, evitar futuros episodios de la misma patologia y solventar dudas sobre aquellas acciones que pueden trascender en su salud.
This edited collection brings together the perspectives of a broad spectrum of experts who reflect on Freud's Seduction Theory, psychoanalysis, and the reality of child abuse through the work of Jeffrey Masson.
Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Disaster Memorials and Monuments: History, Context and Practice from around the World presents a wide-ranging understanding and exploration on memorials and monuments built in the aftermath of accidents, natural disasters and acts of violence.
Acute renal failure induced by rhabdomyolysis after strenuous, prolonged exercise such as marathon running or mountain climbing is a well-known medical phenomenon, but exercise-induced acute renal failure after short-term anaerobic exercise - for instance, short-distance track races - has been recognized only recently.
Brain resuscitation is the therapeutic intervention for critically ill patients with severe brain damage, particularly the types caused by ischemia and hypoxia.
Rapid progress in technology and its application to diagnosis and monitoring of brain tissue temperature and metabolism have resulted in advances in the therapy for critically brain-injured patients and breakthroughs in understanding the pathophysiology of brain damage.
This book introduces pathophysiology and practical heart failure (HF) management at the acute, in-hospital stages during hospitalization and also in the end-stages of HF.
The International Brain Hypothermia Symposium 2004, held in Tokyo, was a forum for many of the world's leading researchers and clinicians to present and discuss developments on the cutting edge of this most promising of neurological therapies.
Decision making regarding fluid volume loading, fluid restriction, or administration of vasoactive drugs may vary among physicians, depending solely upon their clinical experience in the absence of evidence-based measurement.
In response to persistent donor organ shortages, organs from marginal donors, such as expanded criteria donors (ECD) and donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors, are now accepted and have been successfully transplanted, reducing the waiting times for transplantation.
This book creates a scope for achieving mental wellbeing apart from the currently dominant mental health practices, critiqued for their damaging effects on individuals and families.
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