Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Critical Care

The second edition of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine spans three volumes, with major sections dedicated to specific organ systems. Each major section consists of separate chapters dedicated to reviewing the specific disease processes affecting each organ system. Each chapter concludes with a comprehensive list of references, with brief, concise remarks denoting references of 'special interest' and 'of interest'. Consequently, the books are unique in their comprehensive coverage of pediatric critical care and their ease of use and will be of value to those studying towards pediatric...

This book highlights the practical characteristics of uncommon diseases and presents the most relevant features for the management of intensive care units. It does not aim to provide an exhaustive description of uncommon diseases, focusing instead on the major diseases that intensivists may encounter in their clinical practice.

After a brief introduction on the epidemiology and pathophysiology of each disease, the authors emphasize the aspects related to diagnosis and treatment, providing concise and pragmatic guidance for residents and intensivists who care for patients with...

In diesem Werk findet sich das gesamte Spektrum der internistischen Intensivmedizin systematisch, leitlinienorientiert und praxisnah dargestellt. Das Werk richtet sich an alle Arzte auf internistischen Intensivstationen und eignet sich hervorragend sowohl zur Prufungsvorbereitung als auch zum schnellen Nachschlagen im Klinikalltag.

Ausgewiesene Experten beschreiben alle relevanten Themen der internistischen Intensivmedizin mit Krankheitsbildern aus Kardiologie, Pneumologie, Neurologie, Angiologie, Gastroenterologie, Nephrologie, Onkologie, Infektiologie und Endokrinologie. Auch das...

As health care is moving toward a team effort with patients as partners, this book provides guidance on the optimized use of health information and supporting technologies, and how people think and make decisions that affect their health and wellbeing. It focuses on investigations of how general public understand health information, assess risky behaviors, make healthcare decisions, and how they use health information technologies.

e-health technologies have opened up new horizons for promoting increased self-reliance in patients. Although information technologies are now in...

This practical and evidence-based textbook offers a series of assessment, implementation and evaluation activities for professionals working in intensive care contexts. Designed to improve the quality of care delivery, it looks both at collaboration interprofessionally and between care providers and patients or family members.

Collaborative Practice in Intensive Care Settings:

• identifies the issues relating to the 'current state' of collaboration in an ICU through a series of assessment activities;
• provides a series of interventional...

This practical and evidence-based textbook offers a series of assessment, implementation and evaluation activities for professionals working in intensive care contexts. Designed to improve the quality of care delivery, it looks both at collaboration interprofessionally and between care providers and patients or family members.

Collaborative Practice in Intensive Care Settings:

• identifies the issues relating to the 'current state' of collaboration in an ICU through a series of assessment activities;
• provides a series of interventional...

The Annual Update compiles reviews of the most recent developments in experimental and clinical intensive care and emergency medicine research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in these fields. The book is addressed to everyone involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergency medicine.