Accident and emergency medicine

Rooted in everyday hospital medicine, Palliative Skills for Frontline Clinicians addresses the challenges of delivering complex care to patients living with serious illnesses.

This book addresses the ethical problems that physicians have to face every day while caring for critically ill patients.

This book serves as a comprehensive but concise, practical, in-depth resource for practitioners who see and treat anaphylaxis.

This book addresses the ethical problems that physicians have to face every day while caring for critically ill patients.

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.

This book is a clinical manual that covers the whole spectrum of swallowing and its disorders.

This book presents the state of the art in high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC), an oxygen therapy technique that has recently proven to be a very promising approach to supporting respiratory function in several medical fields.

This book aims to concisely present the most common types of musculoskeletal infections and demonstrate the key components of accurate diagnosis, treatment, and management.

The goal of this book is not to follow a traditional systems or organ-based approach but rather to encourage our readers to think of the patients as complex biochemical systems.

This comprehensively updated second edition features major revisions, 24 new chapters and more than 40 new authors, reflecting both the advances and key challenges within the field.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the medical and operational management of blast and explosive incidents affecting civilian populations.

A user-friendly, pocket-sized reference for all physicians faced with endocrine care and challenges in hospitalized patients, this handbook covers the most common issues leading to an inpatient endocrine consult, providing differential diagnoses, a reasonable and practical approach to investigating and managing the condition, and advice for follow-up.

This book provides a holistic and multi professional approach to maximising the chances of a successful recovery for the ICU patient surviving a period of critical illness.

This book is an accessible guide to caring for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).

This book comprehensively covers the knowledge and skills that physicians, medical students and mid-level providers (physician assistants and nurse practitioners) need in order to care for patients with plant or arthropod exposures.

The Annual Update compiles reviews of the most recent developments in experimental and clinical intensive care and emergency medicine research and practice in one comprehensive reference book.

This book focuses on evidence-based occupational therapy in the care of older adults in different clinical settings, from home to acute hospital, from intensive care unit to rehabilitation centers and nursing homes.

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).

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.