Accident and emergency medicine

This book offers valuable guidance to neurointensivists, other neurocritical care staff, and those desiring to develop a neurocritical care unit via a thorough discussion of neurological emergencies and neurocritical care unit organization.

This book is intended for periodontal residents and practicing periodontists who wish to incorporate the principles of moderate sedation into daily practice.

This book presents the parameters of Mastery Learning (ML), an especially stringent variety of competency-based education that guides students to acquire essential knowledge and skill, measured rigorously against a minimum passing standard (MPS).

This book is a quick guide to the key components of trauma center administration, management, and patient care.

This book provides information to support the new and growing field of medical simulation training using mobile simulation vehicles.

The number of natural and man-made disasters has risen dramatically over the last decade.

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview on critical care administration.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of highly infectious diseases (HIDs) in the ICU.

This book serves as a tool for general psychiatrists, medical students, residents, and fellows looking for a clinically relevant and high-yield overview of addiction psychiatry in preparation for their board exams - or for everyday clinical practice.

This book offers readers a better understanding of how to perform echocardiography in their daily intensive care unit (ICU) work.

This textbook details the nursing care of babies with life limiting conditions and sets the context within the philosophy of internationally collaborative neonatal palliative care emphasising emotional and practical support for their families.

This book serves as the primary reference for precision medicine in the fields of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine by documenting principles written by experts in several aspects of precision medicine.

As the Baby Boomers age, concerns over healthcare systems abilities to accommodate geriatric patients grow increasingly challenging.

The aim of this book is to educate and train practitioners in the safe and professional use of diagnostic ultrasound imaging in the visualization and interpretation of various cerebral conditions not only in neurointensive care, but also in the operating room and, in general, cardiothoracic and neurocritical care settings.

This unique and innovative title offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection of ethics, violence, trauma, and trauma surgery.

This book is an introduction to a comprehensive analysis of recent advances and clinical research in noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine.

Care for older adults in Emergency Departments (EDs) has historically been focused on acute medical conditions with little emphasis on geriatric-specific issues.

Now in its fully revised and expanded second edition, this volume is the definitive resource on long-distance air transport of injured patients in both peacetime and wartime.

This book aims to fill knowledge gap among healthcare workers about Clostridium difficile (also known as C.

This book outlines the essential knowledge required for the management of critically ill and severely injured children.

This comprehensive and up-to-date book covers the common emergencies in neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry.

This textbook addresses the themes that are at the forefront of neonatal clinical care and research, based on natural divisions in care during pregnancy, and postnatally by gestational age at birth.

This comprehensive book provides practical guidance on the care of the critical patient in the emergency department.

This authoritative work provides clinicians, scientists and students with a comprehensive overview of exertional heat illness.

This book acts as a portable and easy-to-understand reference for surgical trainees or young faculty members that are interested in reviewing procedures on the way to the operating room.

This casebook profiles exceptional traumatic injury prevention programs from all over the globe.

This book discusses and explains the importance of biochemistry knowledge in understanding what happens to patients during anesthesia and/or to those being in intensive care.

This extensively updated textbook comprehensively reviews the latest developments in evidence-based critical care.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to non-invasive mechanical ventilation in palliative medicine, focusing on why and when it may be necessary.

The Golden Hour is a well-established concept in emergency medicine, related to the critical period of one hour after an injury, accident or trauma.

This book provides readers with a detailed orientation to healthcare simulation research, aiming to provide descriptive and illustrative accounts of healthcare simulation research (HSR).

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

This text provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of acute brain dysfunction in the critically ill.

This text provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the diagnosis and management of the critically ill cirrhotic patient.

This book, part of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine textbook series,  provides detailed up-to-date information on the physical, cognitive, and psychological impairments that are frequently present following a stay in an intensive care unit and examines in depth the available preventive and therapeutic strategies, including adapted rehabilitation programs.

Despite of the enormous efforts of researchers and clinicians to understand the pathophysiology of falls in older adults and establish preventive treatments, there is still a significant gap in our understanding and treating of this challenging syndrome, particularly when we focus in cognitively impaired older adults.

This book focuses on endovascular methods for resuscitation and trauma management.

This book is unique in its approach, covering the impact of virtual endoscopy and 3D reconstruction on surgical modalities and perioperative airway options.

This book contains a variety of medical case studies from actual patients presenting to the emergency department.

This thoroughly revised and updated work covers numerous advances in traumatic brain injury diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, and pathophysiology.

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

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (PARDS).

This book provides a comprehensive overview of damage control resuscitation (DCR), an evidence-based approach to the resuscitation of patients with severe life-threatening hemorrhage (LTH).

This comprehensive third edition provides robust support to clinicians providing perioperative care for patients.

The second edition of this key resource provides a broad and fundamental overview of basic cardiovascular (CV) hemodynamic principles with a focus on clinical assessment of CV physiology.

This book provides a comprehensive framework for developing heart teams to manage a variety of cardiovascular diseases.

This book describes the developments and improvements in electroencephalography (EEG).

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This comprehensive, evidence-based book is intended to serve as a reference for medical practitioners involved in the perioperative care of neurosurgical patients.