Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Critical Care

• Sigue manteniendo el equilibrio entre el enfoque didactico clinico necesario para un manual, y el criterio fisiologico mas...

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...

Dieses Buch zeigt Neonatologen, Padiatern, Geburtshelfern, Kinderkrankenschwestern und Hebammen wie die intensivmedizinische Versorgung von Fruh- und Neugeborenen adaquat gelingt. Der Klassiker im Kitteltaschenbuchformat erscheint bereits in der 9. Auflage. Diese ist komplett aktualisiert und zugunsten noch groerer Praxisnahe gekurzt. Viele Tipps und Tricks helfen Fallstricke und Gefahrensituationen zu erkennen und somit zu vermeiden. Ein praxisorientiertes Buch, auf hohem wissenschaftlichem Niveau zum schnellen Nachschlagen und kompetenten Handeln bei schwerkranken Fruh- und...

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.

This book offers a pragmatic approach to day-to-day metabolic and nutritional care based on physiological considerations. Due to the numerous controversial trials published in the last 15 years, there is no clear guidance for intensive care physicians regarding the metabolic and nutritional management of patients. This has resulted in a return to underfeeding and related complications in most ICUs worldwide as shown by the latest Nutrition Day data. Using a structured, logical approach, the book examines practical solutions for artificial feeding in complex areas of critical care (brain...

This book discusses the interpretation mechanical ventilator waveforms. Each page shows a screenshot from a real patient and explains one or two messages. It starts with basic information about the waveforms and goes on to address passive and spontaneous ventilation, non-invasive ventilation and specific measurements such as pressure-volume curves and esophageal pressure. Step by step, readers learn about advanced monitoring of patient-ventilator synchronisation. This unique teaching approach has been adapted to this topic.

Covering the entire field of mechanical ventilation, it is...

Using clear language, the author guides the reader from pneumatic principles to the anatomy and physiology of respiration....

• Features new chapters on Critical Care Implications in Acute Care Surgery,...