This pocket-sized book is an essential companion for all anaesthetists, intensive care specialists, intensive care nurses or any other healthcare professional working in the perioperative or intensive care environment. It provides a readily available source of information and guidance, mostly in the form of easy-to-follow tables, line drawings and flow diagrams, on many aspects of anaesthesia and intensive care, including normal values for common biochemical and haematological tests (and their interpretation), resuscitation protocols, equipment checklists, paediatric information and dosage differences, ventilation, sedation and analgesia and classification systems such as the APACHE II and Glasgow Coma Scales.

This comprehensive book provides an in-depth examination of a broad range of procedures that benefit from ultrasound guidance in the point-of-care setting. It covers common procedures such as ultrasound-guided central and peripheral venous access to regional nerve blocks, temporary pacemaker placement, joint aspirations, percutaneous drainage, a variety of injections and airway management. Chapters examine a variety of topics critical to successful ultrasound procedures, including relevant sonoantomy, necessary equipment, proper preparation, potential complications, existing evidence and how to integrate these procedures into clinical practice. For each procedure, the book includes step-by-step instructions and discusses the advantages of ultrasound guidance over traditional techniques. Providing rich procedural detail to help in clinical decision making, The Ultimate Guide to Point-of-Care Ultrasound-Guided Procedures is an indispensable, go-to reference for all health care providers who work in a variety of clinical settings including primary care, emergency department, urgent care, intensive care units, pediatrics, pre-hospital settings and those who practice in the growing number of new ultrasound programs in these specialties.

What do you do when the most important person in your life is about to die?Who can help you?How do you keep going?When Alison Murdoch's husband catches viral encephalitis and falls into a life-threatening coma, everything changes. Bed 12 is a survival guide to the world of acute medicine, and a poignant and darkly comic account of what it's like to fight for someone's life.Over the course of a summer, machines beep and clatter, medical staff come and go, and family and friends of varying beliefs offer well-intentioned advice. For someone unfamiliar with hospitals, death and dying, the insights of Buddhism assume a greater relevance than ever before. This book is an astute, profound and uplifting insight into how to cope with despair, heartache and the unknown.'The object of my concern-or rather the entire focus of my current existence-is now lying in Bed 12."Riveting!'Dr Bob Grove, former Chief Executive, the Centre for Mental Health

Patients with tracheotomies are managed by a wide variety of healthcare professionals. As a result, information regarding best practice is scattered throughout the medical literature and can be difficult to identify and implement in the clinical setting. Tracheotomy Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach is a practical review of all tracheotomy procedures and acute and chronic tracheotomy care. It combines evidence-based practice and expert opinion to create an invaluable hands-on guide for any healthcare provider managing patients with tracheotomies. Each chapter is authored by at least two different subspecialists, contains case studies with real-life examples of problematic clinical scenarios, and is enhanced by high quality colour images and algorithms. The rationale for different approaches is discussed to guide the decision-making process. Written and edited by tracheotomy experts from a wide variety of disciplines, Tracheotomy Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach is essential reading for anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists and critical care and emergency physicians. * A clinically-oriented reference which addresses difficult issues; appropriate timing of an elective tracheostomy, key management differences, and patient advice * Written and edited by experts from a wide variety of disciplines and subspecialties * Algorithms and colour photographs enhance the text throughout, illustrating the issues and interventions discussed

From World Health Organization data, the prevalence of hearing impairment among infants varies between 0.5 and 3.0 cases per thousand, but in children hospitalised in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and in those with other risk factors (ie: anatomically small for gestational age, craniofacial abnormalities, intrauterine infections, family history of hearing loss, ototoxic drugs, mechanical ventilation , etc.), the prevalence is 10-20 times greater. Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) can be defined as an intensive care unit for sick newborns who need specialised treatment. NICU combines equipment and advanced technology with medical staff specially trained in newborn care. The Joint Committee on Infants Hearing (JCIH) identified many risk factors in NICU infants like prolonged mechanical ventilation, asphyxia, low birth weight and ototoxic medication, and so it also considers intensive care as a whole a risk factor. The present book focuses its attention on this hearing loss risk factor, starting from risk factors and screening strategies, highlighting the various neonatal levels of care, focusing on the treatment of infants with neural tube defects and the future motor development of premature babies. This should be done until caregivers can get the attention of drug therapies used in the NICU.

Tercera edici?n de un manual de consulta imprescindible para el residente y el m?dico en formaci?n al exponer de forma clara y pr?ctica los conocimientos y procedimientos b?sicos para la atenci?n del paciente de UVI o UCI. Este libro a?na conocimientos t?cnicos y doctrinales, criterio y experiencia, s?ntesis y profundidad, y seguir? siendo, una referencia en el campo de la medicina intensiva.La realizaci?n de un manual de medicina intensiva con estas caracter?sticas exige un profundo conocimiento del tema, mucho sentido pr?ctico y una gran capacidad de s?ntesis para poder abarcar en tan peque?o espacio tan amplio contenido, objetivo conseguido de forma exitosa por sus autores. Los profesionales comprometidos que son Montejo, Garc?a de Lorenzo, Ortiz y Bonet ofrecen, con esta obra, una herramienta imprescindible para enfrentarse a las primeras decisiones terap?uticas que el paciente precisa, de modo r?pido, ordenado y sencillo.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Why waste time guessing at what you need to know for the critical care board exam? Maximize your exam preparation time with this quick-hit question and answer review. The unique question and single-answer format eliminates the guesswork associated with traditional multiple-choice Q&A reviews and reinforces only the correct answers you'll need to know on exam day. Emphasis is placed on distilling key facts and clinical pearls essential for exam success. Great for certification and re-certification, this high-yield review for the boards is the perfect compliment to larger texts for intense, streamlined review in the days and weeks before your exam.

CURRENT ESSENTIALS of CRITICAL CARE is a unique, highly compressed quick reference for those who care for critically ill patients. * "Nutshell" information on the diagnosis and treatment of more than 200 conditions * One disease per page with bulleted key points * Includes shock; fluids and electrolytes; renal, heart, GI, and respiratory problems; and other common conditions * Handy tabs for quick reference * A must for medical students, residents, internists, surgeons, anesthetists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants * Use as a companion to CURRENT Critical Care Diagnosis & Treatment UNIQUE QUICK REFERENCE! * 1 disease per page - Synoptic information, at a glance * 1 pearl per page - A memorable clinical pearl for each disease * 1 reference per page - One reference for most disorders

A concise, portable reference that focuses on the management of the ICU patient, covering 138 of the most common critical care on-call problems. Each chapter includes a presenting problem, immediate questions, differential diagnosis, laboratory and other diagnostic data, and treatment plan.

This book, part of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) textbook series, provides detailed up-to-date information on the care of the critical ill very old ( 80 years) patients in the ICU. The very old are expanding fast in our populations, and this is mirrored in our hospitals and ICUs as well. During the last decade, a lot more information about the group of critical ill elderly has been published, and several large networks cooperate in performing multinational studies in this field, one of them with roots in the ESICM. This book will give readers knowledge about the current epidemiology of elderly ICU patients, in patients centered outcomes and factors affecting these outcomes. A large part is devoted to age related changes in vital organ functions, and the specific geriatric "syndromes" like frailty, cognitive decline, reduced activity of daily living, sarcopenia and immunosenecence. This is all important for the practicing intensivists to know about. In addition, specific groups of the elderly in the ICU are also described like the elderly patients with trauma or sepsis. The book is written jointly by intensivists and geriatricians, often working in teams and originating from many different countries. This herald a new era in the collaboration between these two groups in order to improve care and rehabilitation. We have a lot to learn from each other, as both groups have a holistic view of our patients although with different perspectives. This book should be of value for all working in adult ICUs, physicians as well as nurses. It will hopefully lead to a better understanding of the particular challenges posed by this important sub-group of ICU patients and how to manage his group in a way that combine respect for life as well as death and includes patients and caregivers in this process.

This book provides a practically applicable guide to the use of ultrasound in the care of acutely and critically ill patients. It is laid out in two sections. The first section attempts to take a comprehensive approach to specific systems of examination taking an organ focused approach covering techniques including Focussed Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST) scanning and venous sonography. The second section presents a range of specific cases enabling the reader to develop an understanding of how to apply these methodologies effectively into their day-to-day clinical practice. Ultrasound in the Critically Ill: A Practical Guide describes how to use ultrasound technologies in day-to-day clinical practice. Therefore, it is an ideal resource for all trainee and practicing physicians who utilize these technologies on a day-to-day basis.