Practical Trends in Anesthesia and Intensive Care 2020-2021

Practical Trends in Anesthesia and Intensive Care 2020-2021
Author: Davide Chiumello
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2022-11-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3031146123

This book offers an essential guide to managing the most-debated hot topics of practical interest in anesthesia and intensive care. Part I reviews the state of the art in issues concerning both intensive care medicine and anesthesia, such as perioperative medicine, acute liver failure, anesthesia monitoring and ERAS in hepatic surgery. Part II focuses on microbiome in critically ill patients, on COVID-19 aspects and related issues, on sepsis in pediatric patients and ventilatory management in obese patients. Written by leading experts and including updated references, it provides a comprehensive, easy-to-follow update on anesthesia and intensive care. The book clearly explains complex topics, offering practicing clinicians valuable insights into the latest recommendations and evidence in the field while, at the same time, making it a vital resource for students new to the fields of anesthesia and intensive care.

Critical Care Medicine Review: 1000 Questions and Answers

Critical Care Medicine Review: 1000 Questions and Answers
Author: Abraham Sonny
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 1400
Release: 2019-09-16
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1975103084

Covering all four critical care board exams (anesthesiology, surgery, internal medicine, and neurology), Critical Care Medicine Review: 1000 Questions and Answers prepares you for exam success as well as clinical practice in today’s ICU. This full-color, easy-to-use review tool provides challenging case studies, relevant images, multiple-choice board-style questions, rationales for correct and incorrect answers, and references for every question. Edited by instructors of anesthesia and critical care from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, this comprehensive resource is an ideal study guide for critical care fellows, recertifying practitioners, and CCRNs.

The Difficult Airway

The Difficult Airway
Author: David B. Glick
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2012-12-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0387928499

The Difficult Airway provides a comprehensive textual and visual coverage of how to deal with patients who have expected or unexpected difficult airways. The text begins with a description of the incidence and importance of the difficult airway and then describes the ASA Difficult Airway Algorithm created to facilitate the management of “difficult airways.” The majority of the book features a comprehensive step-by-step approach to the rescue techniques listed as part of the ASA Algorithm. Noted experts in each of the techniques have been recruited by the book editors to present the information. Figures throughout the book illustrate important points and procedures. This is a wonderful resource for professionals in the health care field including anesthesiologists, intensive care physicians, emergency room physicians, nurses, and out-of-hospital first responders.

Stoelting's Pharmacology & Physiology in Anesthetic Practice

Stoelting's Pharmacology & Physiology in Anesthetic Practice
Author: Pamela Flood
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 2395
Release: 2021-03-31
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1975126912

Comprehensive, readable, and clinically oriented, Stoelting’s Pharmacology & Physiology in Anesthetic Practice, Sixth Edition, covers all aspects of pharmacology and physiology that are relevant either directly or indirectly to the anesthetic practice—a challenging topic that is foundational to the practice of anesthesia and essential to master. This systems-based, bestselling text has been thoroughly updated by experts in the field, giving you the detailed information needed to make the most informed clinical decisions about the care of your patients.

Manual of Clinical Anesthesiology

Manual of Clinical Anesthesiology
Author: Larry F. Chu
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 1613
Release: 2012-02-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1451153996

This portable manual provides a highly visual, rapid-reference resource that presents anesthesia in a practical and clinically-focused manner. Manual of Clinical Anesthesiology guides anesthesiologists in rapid and focused clinical decision making with its practical, clinically-focused chapters on anesthesia management. This highly formatted manual includes chapter summaries to highlight key points discussed within each chapter, color-coded sections to quickly identify information, and icons calling out pearls and pitfalls. Chapters are short and easy to read. The book includes four atlases for rapid reference: Atlas of Transesophageal Echocardiography, Atlas of Regional Anesthesia, Atlas of Anesthesia Procedures, and Crisis Management Cognitive Aids. There is also a Drug Dosing pull-out card for rapid reference. A section covering Anesthesia Phrases in Foreign Languages will enhance communication with non-English speaking patients in situations where an interpreter may not be available.

The Washington Manual of Critical Care

The Washington Manual of Critical Care
Author: Marin Kollef
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2012-02-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1451180497

The Washington Manual of Critical Care is a concise pocket manual for physicians and nurses. It is distinguished from the multitude of other critical care handbooks on the market by its consistent presentation of algorithms displaying the decision-making pathways used in evaluating and treating disorders in the ICU. The new edition transitions to a full color format and will include coverage of Deep Venous Thrombosis/Pulmonary Embolism, fetal-maternal critical care, C difficile infection, and alternative hemodynamic monitoring.

Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1)

Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 1)
Author: Haile T. Debas
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2015-03-23
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1464803676

Essential Surgery is part of a nine volume series for Disease Control Priorities which focuses on health interventions intended to reduce morbidity and mortality. The Essential Surgery volume focuses on four key aspects including global financial responsibility, emergency procedures, essential services organization and cost analysis.

Advanced Practice Nurse Networking to Enhance Global Health

Advanced Practice Nurse Networking to Enhance Global Health
Author: Melanie Rogers
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2024
Genre: Nursing
ISBN: 3031397401

This book is the first bringing together the work of the ICN NP/APN Network, recognised as the leading authority on advanced practice nursing globally. Since its inception a wide range of projects have been conducted. This book offers readers an overview of global developments led by the Network on advanced practice in addition to findings related to education, research, health policy and clinical practice. This volume recognises the benefits and challenges associated with the development of advanced practice nursing globally. It begins with an overview of the Network before discussing some of the global challenges. The second section of the book presents a variety of the Network's projects and evidence informed data on APN role. This book presents the global context of advanced practice in a variety of settings; As such it is relevant for APNs, students, health policy makers, educators and researchers.