Critical Care

The Update compiles the most recent developments in experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in the field of intensive care and emergency medicine. It is...

This book provides a detailed review of state of the art knowledge on critical care topics as well as the latest research findings. It covers the core aspects in excellent detail, but is not so comprehensive as to make its daily use unfeasible. For each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789024723850Author Jozef CywinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 222g

In Pediatric Critical Review, Board certified pediatric critical care physicians uniquely capture the essence of the most common critical care scenarios in a series of carefully crafted questions and answers. With their crisp and clear explanations,...

Hyperbaric oxygen application has now become a useful technique for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in CNS, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, as well as in soft-tissue and orthopaedic pathologies and haematologic disorders. With a...

Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) is an antibiotic strategy which aims to prevent secondary infections in critically ill patients. In this book, intensive care physicians will find the answers to problems they encounter in daily...

To integrate current knowledge in terms of basic and clinical science and to highlight problems, thirty world-renowned experts in the field of acute lung injury describe the state of up to date knowledge regarding the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and...

Continuing medical education and specialty training procedures represent highly dynamical processes, with a continuously evolving content. The specific teaching methods available (micro-teaching, team teaching, mastery learning, simulation, and...

Disturbances in peripheral O extraction can be produced in dogs treated with 2 endotoxin and thereby provide an opportunity to test theories for the origin of pathological O supply dependency or to try different treatment modalities. The 2 most serious...

This is a no-nonsense guide to drug treatment in the intensive care unit. It covers the most commonly encountered conditions and is organized by system. Management of each condition is tersely outlined step-by-step in table format. The book also includes...

by S. GUASCHINO Dean, Trieste University School of Medicine The society we live in is in continual development and has a number of priori ties for improving the standards of communication. The scientific sector in par ticular thrives on the exchange of...

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...

Sepsis is still the leading cause of death in surgical and general intensive care units. Although our knowledge of this complex syndrome has increased in recent years, it is still far from com- plete. New therapeutic approaches have been developed. Some...

The principal role of the respiratory system is to permit ef? cient exchange of respiratory gases (O and CO ) with the environment. The respiratory system is unique in that it is constantly 2 2 exposed to a barrage of foreign substances from both the...

Simplify, simplify! Henry David Thoreau For writers of technical books, there can be no better piece of advice. Around the time of writing the first edition - about a decade ago - there were very few monographs on this s- ject: today, there are possibly...

The origin of modern intensive care units (ICUs) has frequently been attributed to the widespread provision of mechanical ventilation within dedicated hospital areas during the 1952 Copenhagen polio epidemic. However, modern ICUs have developed to treat...

The pathophysiology of sepsis can be regarded as a series of steps, beginning with the invasion of normally sterile tissue by microbes and the elaboration of various pro-inflammatory mediators. The final common pathway is often the development of the...

The Yearbook compiles the most recent, widespread developments of experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in the field of intensive care and emergency...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838811709Author Stanislaw P. StawickiFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpen

Massachusetts General Hospital Manual of Cardiovascular Critical CareBook InformationISBN 9781975174330Author Aranya BagchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Wolters Kluwer HealthPublisher Wolters Kluwer HealthWeight(grams) 454g

The majority of us now die in hospitals and many of us will end up in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for the last few days of our lives. Yet for most people, what happens in an ICU remains a mystery. This collection of stories about the experiences of...

Recent advancements have resulted in improved diagnosis and management of patients who present with shock in clinical practice. Shock can lead to decreased tissue perfusion and thus decreased oxygenation, resulting in poorer outcomes. Timely diagnosis...

It gives me great pleasure to have this opportunity to write a Foreword for this new book. In the past two decades we have witnessed very significant advances in the management of the very ill patient. The great success in this field of medical endeavour...

The book covers vigorously debated controversial topics in the field of critical care medicine over the years. It provides the reader with a balanced approach and guidance based on historical and currently available evidence in dealing with contentious...

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. The addition of new signals hardly ever leads to thedeletion of other signals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357333917Author Ashu KumawatFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint WritatPublisher WritatWeight(grams) 122g

Resuscitation is a two-stage process comprising the achievement/maintenance of spontaneous circulation and post-resuscitation management. The approach is complex and multifaceted and entails the integration of new physiological insights, pharmacological...

Sepsis is a very important public health problem. It is widely acknowledged that the severe inflammatory response syndrome/severe sepsis paradigm fails to stratify sepsis patients adequately. This book reviews in detail how sepsis should be managed on...

Critical care medicine is a relatively new specialty. Over the past few decades, we have seen an enormous growth in the number of inten- sive care units (ICUs) worldwide. Medical students, residents, fellows, attending physicians, critical care nurses,...

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...

This book is devoted to COVID-19 associated coagulopathy, one of the main determinants of mortality. The volume, intended as a guide, will lead the reader in a pathway starting from pathophysiology and passing through laboratory data, clinical aspects,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839695230Author Selim SözenFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpen

Recent technological innovations - influenced primarily by the development of more sophisticated, faster and cheaper computer systems - permitted also the evolution of more affordable systems for Patient Data Management, so called PDM-Systems. The...

Neurocritical care as a subspecialty has grown rapidly over the last 20 years with the advent of newer monitoring and diagnostic techniques and therapeutic modalities in a variety of brain and spinal cord injury paradigms. This handbook will serve as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854668519Author Nissar ShaikhFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpen

Critical care medicine comprises the observation, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients with overt or potential failure of vital functions. Unlike other, bulkier reference texts, Handbook of Acute Critical Care Neurology focuses on one...

Talking to patients and their families about end-of-life issues can be difficult and stressful. End of Life Communication in the ICU looks at ways different cultures view death and then further explores how health care providers around the world...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992430603Author Lindsay Ian WorthleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Jandl Holdings Pty LtdPublisher Jandl Holdings Pty LtdWeight(grams)...

Bedside Procedures for the Intensivist delivers practical tips and clear, step-by-step instruction on the most common procedures in the ICU. The convenient and portable handbook focuses on ultrasound-guided techniques, including an introduction to...