Critical Care category: 705 books
by Jerrold Lerman, Charles J. Coté, David J. Steward
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Authored by three world experts, this is a clinically focused book on pediatric anesthesia. "The Manual", as it is known, has long dominated the market for a succinct and practical resource on administering anesthesia to children and is used by residents, general anesthesiologists, nurse...
Combat Medicine
Basic and Clinical Research in Military, Trauma, and Emergency Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2003
Trauma and exposure to toxic and infectious agents invariably lead to organ damage followed by significant morbidity and mortality. Although these conditions have typically been associated with the battlefield, today they are more prevalent in urban areas. The events of September 11,2001 have brought...
Clinical Oxygen Pressure Measurement
Tissue Oxygen Pressure and Transcutaneous Oxygen Pressure
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In January 1980, the First Symposium on the Measurement of Tis sue Oxygen Pressure in Patients was held in Frankfurt. After a 4-year "rest period," the organizers of the 1984 symposium, Profes sor R. Huch of Zurich and Dr. J. Hauss of Munster, together with myself, extended another invitation...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This book introduces pathophysiology and practical heart failure (HF) management at the acute, in-hospital stages during hospitalization and also in the end-stages of HF. Given its increasing incidence and prevalence, we live in a world that is essentially facing an HF pandemic. A country with an...
Artificial Ventilation
A Basic Clinical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
This book provides a basic clinical guide to the principles and practice of artificial ventilation, both manual and mechanical. It covers the development of artificial ventilation through the ages and the essential anatomy and physiology behind it. While there are many detailed texts available on...
Fluid, Electrolyte and Acid-Base Disorders
Clinical Evaluation and Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Expanded with six additional chapters and new study questions, this updated edition provides a clear and concise understanding of the fundamentals of fluid, electrolyte and acid-base disorders that are frequently encountered in clinical practice. Each chapter follows a standard format that begins...
by Mary G. McGeown
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Serious disturbances of fluid and electrolyte balance are frequently encountered in acutely ill patients; somewhat less often in the chronically sick. There seems to be a trend for such cases to increase, due probably to an increase in major surgical procedures on older patients whose renal function...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Because of their therapeutic safety, hydroxyethylstarch, gelatin and dextrans are among the most frequently used drugs in the world. Recent studies have shown that bleeding disorders, anaphylactic reactions and storage in the body depend decisively on the nature of the administered plasma substitute....
Clinical Anesthesia
Near Misses and Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Residents, fellows, and practising certified registered nurse anesthetists will benefit from the retelling of these actual near misses, the solutions chosen at the time, and a retrospective analysis of those solutions that includes tips for how the problems could have been avoided altogether or resolved...
Neurotraumatology: Progress and Perspectives
Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Neurotraumatology, Porto (Portugal), November 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A multidisciplinary overview of techniques for monitoring acute head trauma patients is given in this book. It includes neuroimaging procedures (TCD, MRI, SPECT) and multiple neurophysiological approaches: EEG, videomonitoring and integrated computer systems with clinical applications. Results that...
by D. A. B. Hopkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book has a twofold purpose, first to provide information for beginners about the pitalls and hazards of anaesthesia and second to help the occasional anaesthetist in remote areas when confronted with requests to anaesthetise for unfamiliar surgical operations. The book is not intended to replace...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
This book presents the most recent evidence-based facts on perioperative fluid management and discusses fluid management from basic sciences to clinical applications and the patients’ outcomes.
Recent advances in understanding the Revised Starling principle with new concepts in tissue perfusion...
Spinal Opiate Analgesia
Experimental and Clinical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The recent development of the use of spinal opiates as a rational therapy for pain rests on clear and certain experimental data. We have long known the spinal cord to be a highly complex structure. Anatomical studies of the substantia gelatinosa have repeatedly demonstrated signs of massive synaptic...
by Lazar Beinin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In spite of all the progress made by modern science and technology in penetrating the mysteries of nature and providing new possibilities for its transformation, we remain largely helpless in the face of such natural phenomena as earthquakes, tsunami, typhoons, floods, and droughts. Natural disasters...