Richard M. Leach (St Thomas' Hospital)

Critical Care Medicine at a Glance

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Produktbeschreibung

Critical Care Medicine at a Glance

The market-leading at a Glance series is popular among healthcare students and newly qualified practitioners for its concise, simple approach and excellent illustrations.

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Everything you need to know about Critical Care Medicine... at a Glance!

Critical Care Medicine at a Glance, Fourth Edition provides a succinct, accessible, highly illustrated introduction to the care of the critically ill patient. Designed for medical students, junior doctors and nurses alike, this authoritative revision guide covers the essential clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic skills required to manage critically illpatients with a wide range of conditions in a variety of settings. Colour-coded chapters which contain concise explanatory text, applications to practice, and numerous high-quality photographs, illustrations, diagrams and tables.

Fully revised to reflect current guidelines, changes in practice and recent medical innovations, this fourth edition includes expanded coverage of resus, sepsis, COVID-19, ECMO, dermatological emergencies, envenomation and other key conditions and procedures. Updated chapters incorporate current assessment methods used by medical schools and postgraduate training programmes, whilst additional 'Pearls of Wisdom' boxes and 'Wise Owl Reading' reference suggestions are integrated throughout to aid learning and comprehension.
_ Allows rapid access to the knowledge and skills required to care for the acute and critically ill
_ Covers a wide range of topics such as respiratory and neurological emergencies, arrhythmias, ventilation and intubation, trauma surgery and abdominal imaging
_ Features contributions from leading critical care practitioners
_ Provides normal values, reference ranges and treatment and monitoring guidelines for various critical care scenarios
_ Includes practical case studies, revision questions and self-assessment tests with answers
_ Contains several useful appendices, including information on pacemaker types and classifications

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Produktdetails

• At a Glance
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1W119605860
• 4. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 278mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781119605867
• ISBN-10: 1119605865
• Artikelnr.: 64624398

Autorenporträt

Richard M. Leach is Medical Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Professor of Medicine at King's College, London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface viii

Acknowledgements ix

Units, symbols and abbreviations x

How to use your textbook xvi

Part 1 General 1

1 Recognising the unwell patient 2

2 Managing the critically ill patient 4

3 Monitoring in critical care medicine 6

4 The electrocardiogram 8

5 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation 10

6 Oxygen transport 12

7 Shock 14

8 Circulatory assessment 16

9 Fluid management: pathophysiological factors 18

10 Fluid management: assessment and prescription 20

11 Fluid management: fluid choice 22

12 Inotropes and vasopressors 23

13 Failure of oxygenation and respiratory failure 24

14 Oxygenation and oxygen therapy 26

15 Airways obstruction and management 28

16 Non- invasive ventilation 30

17 Endotracheal intubation 32

18 Mechanical ventilation 34

19 Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation 36

20 Respiratory management, weaning and tracheostomy 38

21 Arterial blood gases and acid-base balance 40

22 Analgesia, sedation and paralysis 42

23 Enteral and parenteral nutrition 44

24 Hypothermia and hyperthermia 46

25 Assessment of the patient with suspected infection 48

26 Sepsis and septic shock 50

27 Hospital- acquired (nosocomial) infections 52

28 Fever in the returning traveller 54

29 Fever (pyrexia) of unknown origin 56

30 Coronavirus disease 2019 58

31 End of life issues 60

Part 2 Medical 63

Cardiac

32 Acute coronary syndromes I: clinical pathophysiology 64

33 Acute coronary syndromes II: investigations and management 66

34 Arrhythmias: tachyarrhythmias 68

35 Arrhythmias: bradyarrhythmias 71

36 Heart failure and pulmonary oedema 72

37 Cardiac emergencies 74

38 Deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism 76

Respiratory

39 Chest imaging and bronchoscopy 78

40 Community-acquired pneumonia 80

41 Hospital-acquired (nosocomial) pneumonia 82

42 Asthma 84

43 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 86

44 Acute respiratory distress syndrome 88

45 Pneumothorax and air leaks 90

46 Respiratory emergencies 92

Renal and metabolic

47 Acute kidney injury: pathophysiology and clinical aspects 94

48 Acute kidney injury: management and renal replacement therapy 96

49 Electrolyte disturbances: sodium and potassium 98

50 Electrolyte disturbances: calcium 100

51 Electrolyte disturbances: magnesium and phosphate 102

52 Diabetic emergencies 104

53 Endocrine emergencies 106

Gastrointestinal

54 Gastrointestinal haemorrhage 108

55 Jaundice 110

56 Acute liver failure 112

57 Acute pancreatitis 114

58 Vomiting and intestinal obstruction 116

59 Diarrhoea 118

60 Ascites 120

61 Abdominal Imaging 121

Neurological

62 Acute confusional state, coma and status epilepticus 122

63 Stroke 124

64 Other cerebral vascular disorders 126

65 Infective neurological emergencies 127

66 Neuromuscular conditions 128

Infective

67 Specific bacterial infections 130

68 Common adult viral infections 132

69 Common fungal and protozoal infections 134

70 The immune compromised patient 136

Other systems

71 Coagulation disorders and transfusion 138