Intensive care medicine Books

Perinatal medicine, which is concerned with the problems of the fetus and newborn, has rapidly developed in the last two decades as an important and challenging specialty. Rapid advances in the field, coupled with tech­...

From the unique position of a decade in government service, I was given the opportunity to observe the changes in the provision of emer­ gency medical care across the country. In 1970, Emergency Medical Service (EMS) systems...

The third international symposium on Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine was held in Norwalk Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine in June 1981. This publication contains the majority of papers that were presented at...

As our population continues to grow, more and more patients are becoming dependent on long-term ventilatory support. Therefore, the need for quality options such as home mechanical ventilation is fast becoming a necessity. Ventilatory Support For Chronic...

Funny, touching, sad, with a light of hope at the end of the tunnel.There are thousands of working actors in this country and only a handful will ever make it as rich and famous International Stars. This story is not about one of the handful.This is the...

This is an introduction to the patient monitoring technologies that are used in today's acute care environments, including the operating room, recovery room, emergency department, intensive care unit, and telemetry floor.  To a...

This pocket guide is a single-volume source of the most common and important formulas and laboratory values used in the daily practice of acute care and critical care medicine. Information is presented in outline format and as tables, graphics, and...

Accedi ora al manuale pratico, semplice e conciso sull'interpretazione dell'ECG! Spesso, è essenziale saper riconoscere velocemente uno stato patologico, ma per riuscire a intervenire tempestivamente è necessario essere in grado di...

Addressing all aspects of brain death and thoroughly detailing how a potential organ donor should be maintained to ensure maximum use of the organs and cells, The Brain-Dead Organ Donor: Pathophysiology and Management is a landmark addition to the...

Arbeidsboken er spesielt skrevet for paramedisin, paramedic, akuttmedisin utenfor sykehus og ambulansearbeider.Boken er tenkt som en supplerende oppgavesamling.Boken inneholder ulike typer oppgaver og 200 illustrasjoner.Til de aller fleste oppgavene i...

Viele Kinder und Jugendliche in der Heimerziehung leiden unter schweren Traumata. Sie benötigen eine besondere Betreuung und Unterstützung bei der Traumabewältigung. Doch wie können Sozialpädagoginnen und Sozialpädagogen ihnen helfen?Diese Publikation...

Sei appassionato di medicina e chirurgia e vorresti conoscere qualcosa di più su come fare una vera sutura?Sei uno studente di medicina o un professionista nel settore medico e hai bisogno di un manuale pratico e semplice per ripassare i punti...

A detailed memoir of a highly traumatic time where a fight for life was taken on by an observant and caring family, a professional hospital team and the patient himself. This story starts with a dramatic awakening in a hospital bed with, initially no...

Aktuell ist eine Digitalisierung der Unterrichte geforderter denn je. Die Schülerinnen und Schüler in der Ausbildung zum Operationstechnischen Assistenten sind klar der Gruppe der Digital Natives zu zuordnen. Ein Umgang mit Digitalen Medien erfolgt meist...

This is the story of one Mom and one very special family that had born into it one very special little girl who at this writing is waiting for a multi-organ transplant so that she can visit London and Paris, and so that she can see the world beyond the...

غوص في أعماق عالم الميكروبات المُذهل! "سيكولوجية الوباء" ليس مجرد كتاب علميّ جافّ، بل رحلة شيّقة تُعرّفك على أسرار الكائنات الدقيقة التي تُحيط بنا، من البكتيريا إلى الفيروسات والفطريات. ستكتشف كيف تُهاجم هذه الكائنات أجسامنا، وكيف تُدافع مناعتنا عنها،...

Dr. G. M. Woerlee is well known in my department both as a clinician and teacher. Years ofexperience have taught him that the problems discussed here have as yet not been treated in this way in any single work. In my opinion...

Intensive care in childhood is a relatively new field of medicine. Due to major differences in physiology, many disciplines are involved in the care of the critically ill child. Apart from specific disease patterns, morbidity...

Nitric Oxide (NO) is a free radical, a gas, and a pluripotent product of mammalian cells. Only a few years ago, scientific discussions of NO were largely held in the context of the chemistry of air pollution. Now, however, the...

This monograph focuses on splanchnic function in health and disease. It represents a distillate of the communication that took place at the First International Symposium of Applied Physiol­ ogy of the Peripheral Circulation,...

This book concentrates on problems generated by acute care in severely traumatized patients during the first 24 hours after injury. During this hectic period, highly complicated problems have to be solved at the site of the...

Over the last 10 years the syndrome of severe acute renal failure has progressively changed in its epidemiology. It is now most frequently seen in critically ill patients, typically in the context of sepsis and multiorgan...

Sepsis and Innovative Treatment: The Odyssey R. C. Bone The Odyssey by Homer, dates back to the 8th century, B. C. [1]. It is a great epic adventure of Odysseus's dramatic journey from Troy back home to Ithaca. Odysseus...

The science of neuroanaesthesia and neurointensive care is fascinating, and the amounts of experimental and clinical studies are overwhelming. Surely, everyone can surf Medline and other database systems in order to get...

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...

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...

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...

Written by an intensivist familiar with ultrasound, this book describes a new clinical tool: ultrasound for the intensive care and emergency physician. It specifically details findings of immediate clinical relevance throughout...

Including comprehensive coverage of health disparities commonly encountered in pediatric and adult pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine, Achieving Respiratory Health Equality in the United States provides a definitive reference...

Die Aufklärung des autonomen Patienten stellt den Kern jeder medizinischen Behandlung dar. Da zahlreiche Konzepte, welche die Kommunikation mit dem Kranken im Rahmen der gebräuchlichen Aufklärung verbessern wollten, im Alltag...

Diagnostik und Therapie sind die Pfeiler, auf denen die Medizin ruht. Beide wurden in der letzten Zeit wesentlich erweitert und vertieft - teils zum Nutzen der Patienten, teils aber auch zu deren Nachteil. Betroffen sind alle...

Das Buch richtet sich vor allem an junge Anästhesiologen und Assistenzärzte auf Intensivstationen, die die Technik der transösophageale Echokardiographie erlernen möchten, aber ebenso an Kardiologen und Internisten, die...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the basic physiology of the cardiac and pulmonary systems, tools for cardiopulmonary monitoring, and related issues in the management of specific conditions. The volume is divided into three main parts. The...

The Texas Children's Hospital Handbook of Congenital Heart Disease is authored by physicians, nurses, and allied staff across a wide variety of disciplines at the Heart Center at Texas Children's Hospital. The book is not intended as a comprehensive...

J.F. Crul The topic Legal Aspects of Anaesthesia is still rarely treated in book publications, but deserves increasing attention as more cases of litigation occur each year and anaesthetists also become more aware of the legal...