Mervyn Singer, Andrew R. Webb

Oxford Handbook of Critical Care

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The fully revised, third edition of this bestselling handbook describes best practice of critical care in a succint, concise, and clinically-oriented way. Covering the principles of general management, it includes therapeutic and monitoring devices, specific disorders of organ systems, as well as detailed information on drugs and fluids. New material has been added on key areas such as airway maintenance, dressing techniques, infection control, echocardiography, tissue perfusion monitoring, coma and more. With up-to-date references and invaluable clinical advice, there is also plenty of space to add notes or amend sections to suit local protocols. Patient-centered and practical, it will serve the consultant, trainee, nurse or other allied health professionals as both a reference and aide memoir. This is the indispensable Oxford Handbook for all those working within critical care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 3. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 696
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 185mm x 106mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780199235339
• ISBN-10: 0199235333
• Artikelnr.: 26571182

Autorenporträt

Dr Andrew Webb is Medical Director at UCL Hospitals and Consultant Physician in Critical Care Medicine. As a medical director his role is unusual in that it includes the executive and operational director responsibility for University College Hospital including the divisions of Critical Care & Theatres, Emergency Services, Medicines & Therapies, Pathology, Outpatients & Imaging and Surgery. He has been a Consultant in critical care medicine since 1989 and was Honorary Treasurer for the ICS during 2000-2003. He is currently chair of the Critical Care Advisory Committee for the Welsh Assembly Government. He has interests in haemodynamic monitoring, fluid management and healthcare management. He is co-author of several major critical care texts and papers on fluid management in ICU and the peri-operative period. Mervyn Singer is Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London. He has published numerous books, reviews, chapters and original research publications in critical and acute medicine, and led single- and multi-centre clinical trials. His research interests include the pathophysiology and management of sepsis and multi-organ failure, shock states, tissue oxygenation, infection, haemodynamics and haemodynamic monitoring.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
1: Critical care organisation and management
2: Respiratory therapy techniques
3: Cardiovascular therapy techniques
4: Renal therapy techniques
5: Gastrointestinal therapy techniques
6: Nutrition and metabolic therapy
7: Wound and pressure area management
8: Respiratory monitoring
9: Cardiovascular monitoring
10: Neurological monitoring
11: Laboratory monitoring
12: Miscellaneous monitoring
13: Fluids
14: Respiratory drugs
15: Cardiovascular drugs
16: Renal drugs
17: Gastrointestinal drugs
18: Neurological drugs
19: Haematological drugs
20: Miscellaneous drugs
21: Resuscitation
22: Respiratory disorders
23: Cardiovascular disorders
24: Renal disorders
25: Gastrointestinal disorders
26: Hepatic disorders
27: Neurological disorders
28: Haematological disorders
29: Metabolic disorders
30: Poisoning
31: Infection and inflammation
32: Trauma and burns
33: Physical disorders
34: Pain and post-operative critical care
35: Oncological critical care
36: Obstetric emergencies
37: Transport of the critically ill
38: Death and the dying patient

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I would struggle to find a weakness. I think the strengths really are the simplicity and the structure... having all the relevant information from a multitude of clinical presentations in one place... the book certainly delivers what it is intended for. Nursing Times