The Intensive Care Manual

With up-to-date guidance that is easy to find and practical, this original sourcebook helps ICU staff solve problems of critically ill patients quickly and effectively. Filled with convenient summary approaches, diagnostics, treatments, and needed lab standards and algorithms, The Intensive Care Manual simplifies finding ICU answers on:
Respiratory failure, oxygen delivery, and mechanical ventilation

Intravascular access and hemodynamic monitoring

Shock

Renal failure

Infectious diseases

Nutritional

Cardiac arrhythmias and acute myocardial infarction

Endocrine disease and hematologic disorders

Gastrointestinal problems

Coma

Sedation and airway management

Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine - Febuary 2010 Edition

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

Handbook of Drugs in Intensive Care: An A - Z Guide - 2010 Edition

The fourth edition of this compact, practical pocketbook provides easy access for the reader with an A-Z listing of every drug and accompanying advice on its correct administration and potential adverse effects. It is an invaluable resource for all healthcare professionals working in the intensive care setting.

Numerous treatment options are available to intensive care staff; this requires detailed knowledge of routes of administration and contra-indications to use in certain clinical conditions. Now in its fourth edition, this concise, practical handbook to drugs and prescribing for intensive care gives up-to-date advice on established drugs as well as providing advice on those recently approved. The book is divided into two sections: an A-Z guide to many of the drugs available, with concise information on each drug, including uses, limitations, administration directions and adverse effects. The second section contains topics relevant to the critically ill patients, including factors that may affect drug prescribing and management of medical emergencies. There is also a key data section showing weight conversions, BMI and corresponding dosage calculations, and an invaluable chart indicating drug compatibility for IV administration. This is an invaluable resource for doctors, nurses, and pharmacists caring for critically ill patients.

Critical Care (Civetta) - 4th Edition

The leading critical care textbook since 1988, Civetta, Taylor and Kirby’s Critical Care is now in its Fourth Edition, with a new editorial team, over thirty new chapters, and completely updated information. The book addresses every problem encountered in the intensive care unit and covers surgicalcritical care more thoroughly than any other text. Each chapter begins with immediate concerns and proceeds to broader-based discussions of relevant pathophysiologic and clinical issues.

This edition has new sections on shock states; pharmacology, nutrition, toxicology and the environment; and disaster management. New chapters include bedside ultrasound, point of care testing, neurogenic shock, anaphylactic shock, surgical infections, and acute coronary syndrome.

PART 1 - PART 2

Procedures, Techniques, and Minimally Invasive Monitoring in Intensive Care Medicine

This portable paperback bench manual contains the thoroughly updated atlas of procedures and techniques and the new section on noninvasive monitoring from Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine, Sixth Edition. In a user-friendly format, this extremely practical “how-to” guide provides graphically illustrated, step-by-step instructions for every diagnostic, therapeutic, and noninvasive monitoring procedure used in adult critical care. Coverage of each procedure includes indications, contraindications, equipment, anatomy, technique, complications, and ongoing care. All ICU staff as well as general practitioners can depend on this manual for immediate access to reliable, easy-to-follow instructions.

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