Accident and emergency medicine

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.

This comprehensive, multi-authored book covers all aspects of surgery on obese patients in emergency conditions.

This book describes a practical approach to the diagnosis, management, and prevention of infectious complications in solid-organ transplant (SOT) candidates and recipients, based on both up-to-date clinical evidence and state of the art expert opinion from world-renowned experts in the field.

This book focuses on how to formulate a mental health response with respect to the unique elements of pandemic outbreaks.

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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 updated second edition provides a concise and up-to-date guide to emergency brain CT scans.

This book provides a guide for the management of patients with cardiovascular emergencies in the ER.

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

Written by experts in the anesthesiology field, this unique resource explores the various issues and complications that arise during the administration of anesthesiology in various clinical settings.

This book provides the basis needed for a dialogue between intensivists and emergency surgeons regarding the management and monitoring of acute care surgery (ACS) patients who require Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission.

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 text provides a concise, yet comprehensive overview of telemedicine in the ICU.

This book comprehensively covers hand trauma from initial presentation to management.

This is a book for clinician educators.

This book documents the ways that clinical practitioners and trainees have used the "e;structural competency"e; framework to reduce inequalities in health.

This book offers mental health guidelines for all medical professionals facing the emerging challenges presented by an aging population worldwide.

This volume provides an overview of the current evidence-based medical and surgical practice in emergency conditions in colorectal cancer patients.

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 describes and illustrates the gamut of errors that may arise during the performance and interpretation of imaging of both nontraumatic and traumatic emergencies, using a head-to-toe approach.

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

Critical care medicine is responsible for many of the most important advances in outcomes after cardiothoracic surgery in the past two decades.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of critical care of the pediatric immunocompromised hematology-oncology patient.

Updated and expanded, this comprehensive new edition captures the considerable evolution in the anesthetic management of patients requiring anesthesia for non-cardiac intrathoracic diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

This handbook provides a comprehensive, yet succinct guide to the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of various musculoskeletal/extremity disorders in the emergency department.

This book offers a diagnostic tool for physicians and psychologists who want to systematically document pain within a multimodal structure.

Are you looking for the essentials you need to learn the basics of echography for anesthesiology, intensive care and emergency medicine?

Modern vascular neurology, particularly in the emergency setting, often requires a great capacity for analysis and synthesis.

A large number of cardiovascular diseases are accompanied by inflammation.

This book offers mental health guidelines for all medical professionals facing the emerging challenges presented by an aging population worldwide.

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, now in a revised and updated second edition, systematically covers the use of ultrasound in all organ systems throughout childhood.

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.