Critical Care

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...

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...

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,...

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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...

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...

valuable way of presenting information within the book and purposely sought. It is hoped that exposure to individual chapters within the book will encourage readers to consider issues and problems from perspectives other than the ones with which they are...

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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...

Great progress has been made since the first description of the acute respiratory distress syndrome by the Denver group in 1967 (Lancet). Although we introduced the term 'adult respiratory distress syndrome' in our second and more detailed description of...

In recent years much enthusiasm and energy has been directed toward the development of human gene therapies, especially for inherited conditions and cancers. However, current gene transfer technology is limited in its transduction efficiency and ability...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759641617Author Lawrence MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 387g

Intensive Care Medicine 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...

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

The Handbook of Hospital Medicine was originally conceived by Dr Mitchell as a guide for junior medical staff working in his own unit. Its aim was to provide a practical pocket-sized guide on diagnosis, investigation, and general management of some of...

Why Critical Care Evolved METs? In early 2004, when Dr. Michael DeVita informed me that he was cons- ering a textbook on the new concept of Medical Emergency Teams (METs), I was surprised. At Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pittsburgh we int- duced...

Core Principles of Acute Neurology is a series of short volumes that handles major topics not found in sufficient detail elsewhere and provides useful context. Solving Critical Consults provide practical information on how to evaluate complicated...

In this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editors Drs. David N. Hager, Kyle Gunnerson, and Stephen Macdonald bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Critical Illness Outside the ICU. Top experts cover key topics such as flight transport of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789548553148Author Ketogenic BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Dietary Books Publishers LtdPublisher Dietary Books Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 152g

In this issue of Physician Assistant Clinics, guest editor Diane Bruessow of Yale School of Medicine brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Gender Minority Medicine. Filling a knowledge gap in transgender health in primary care, this issue...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949510119Author Jaskaran SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Null Publishing GroupPublisher Null Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946286970Author Frederick EarlsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Pack & Post Plus, LLCPublisher Pack & Post Plus, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778057083Author Victor FinleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Victor FinleyPublisher Victor FinleyWeight(grams) 195g

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The 2nd edition of this book describes the recent techniques, strategies, and drugs that have been demonstrated by multicenter randomized trials to influence survival in critically ill, defined as those who have acute failure of at least one organ, due...

Sepsis represents a life threatening condition to ICU patients. The evolution of sepsis to severe sepsis or septic shock may occur in an unpredictable way. In the coming millennium the prevention and management of sepsis and organ dysfunction will...

This aim of this book is to focus on a very common situation seen in medical practice, the acute catabolic state. This pathophysiological sit uation is rarely discussed as a separate entity, possibly because it is seen in all specialties of medicine and...

Researchers from many disciplines, with both basic and clinical perspectives, came together in this volume to review and debate issues pertaining to the investigation and control of tissue oxygenation in acute medicine, as well as treatments to improve...

Critical Care Clinicians can use general drug references (Micomedex, Lexicomp) for data on dosing of high-alert medications in special patient populations but these references are not available to all healthcare clinicians, they are expensive and they...

In this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editors Drs. Lori Shutter and Deepa Malaiyandi bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Neurocritical Care, a rapidly growing specialty of complex care. Top experts in the field provide up-to-date...

Sepsis is an important public health problem around the world. Severe sepsis carries significant morbidity, mortality and high costs. The incidence of sepsis is increasing because of the aging population, the growing number of immunocompromised hosts,...

The care of the critically ill or injured child begins with timely, prompt, and aggressive res- citation and stabilization. Ideally, stabilization should occur before the onset of organ failure in order to achieve the best possible outcomes. In the...

In this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editor Dr. Hannah Wunsch brings her considerable expertise to the topic of History of Critical Care Medicine. The term "Critical Care Medicine" was first introduced in the 1950s at the University of Southern...