Critical Care category: 705 books
6th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
Brussels, Belgium, April 15–18, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Spinal Cord Tumors Experimental Neurosurgery Neurosurgical Intensive Care
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie, Berlin, May 12-15, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Junior Bodine
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
My Wifes Death I see my self as saving patients lives and money. What that means to me is passing on my first hand experience of the malpractice death of my wife on July 19, 2004 , the resulting malpractice lawsuit suit and years of hard research on our health care system. My wife was an outstanding...
Sepsis
Definitions, Pathophysiology and the Challenge of Bedside Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
This book is designed to provide a comprehensive and state-of-the-art resource for clinicians who care for patients with sepsis and research scientist alike, . Patients with severe sepsis requiring ICU admission have very high rates of ICU and overall hospital mortality, with estimates ranging from...
Neurotrauma
Evidence-Based Answers to Common Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Winner of Association of American Publishers Clinical Medicine Book Award, 2005Combining new, evidence-based literature with the hands-on experience of leading specialists, this book provides the practical approach clinicians need, especially when dealing with an emergency situation. Each chapter...
by Hilary Humphreys, Bob Winter, Mical Paul
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
The book will provide some basic aspects of the pathophysiology of infection, but essentially the book will be practical-based and use case-illustrations to highlight key aspects of diagnosis, management and prevention. Through a combination of text, tables, figures/line drawings, clinical illustrations...
Mechanics of Breathing
Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
In the past few years, research into the mechanics of breathing has provided results which are opening new perspectives in understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of some of the most important respiratory diseases that affect humans. The book includes the contributions of...
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Language: German
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Der medizinisch-technische Fortschritt führt verbunden mit der demographischen Entwicklung dazu, dass immer mehr, und v.a. ältere und vorerkrankte Menschen intensivmedizinisch behandelt werden. Die Vorhersage des Behandlungsergebnisses bleibt dabei häufig schwierig. Im Verlauf einer intensivmedizinischen...
In Shock
My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
**A riveting first-hand account of a physician who's suddenly a dying patient, In Shock "searches for a glimmer of hope in life’s darkest moments, and finds it.” —The Washington Post
Dr. Rana Awdish never imagined that an emergency trip to the hospital would result in hemorrhaging...
by Auguste H. Fortin, Francesca C. Dwamena, Richard M. Frankel
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
A comprehensive, evidence-based introduction to the principles and practices of patient communication in a clinical setting
Endorsed by the American Academy on Communication for Healthcare
Updated and expanded by a multidisciplinary team of medical experts, Smith’s Patient-Centered...
Post-anaesthetic Recovery
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Developments in surgery have enabled more ambitious operations to be attempted than ever before, while similar advances in anaesthesia and monitoring have meant that many patients who were previously considered unfit now undergo surgery. It is essential that standards of patient care during surgery...
by Minh Chau Joseph Tran
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Written for trainees who are preparing to take the Anesthesia Oral Board exam, Rapid Review Anesthesiology Oral Boards is focused on the most commonly tested topics on the ABA oral board exam. Presented in a question-and-answer format, the book covers 39 different clinical scenarios encountered in...
Death before Dying
History, Medicine, and Brain Death
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 1968. It also remains a focus of controversy and debate, an early source of criticism...
by Raphael Giraud, Karim Bendjelid
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
This book describes the pathophysiological significance of the hemodynamic monitoring parameters available to the clinician and their role in providing reliable and reproducible information on the cardiocirculatory status of a patient in shock. It is explained how measurements of these parameters...