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Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Accident & emergency medicine > Intensive care medicine
This issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Hernando
Gomez Danies and Joseph Carcillo, focuses on
Coagulation/Endothelial Dysfunction. This is one of four issues
each year selected by the series consulting editor, Dr. John
Kellum. Articles in this issue include, but are not limited to:
Cell-cell communication breakdown and endothelial dysfunction; Role
of the Tie2/Angiopoetin pathway in endothelial dysfunction; The
Glycocalyx; Platelet activation and endothelial dysfunction; Role
of antithrombin III and tissue factor pathway; Red blood cell
dysfunction; Microvascular hemodynamics, autoregulation and
mechanotransduction control of blood flow distribution; Nitric
oxide and endothelial dysfunction; Microvascular dysfunction;
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and atypical HUS; Thrombotic
thrombocytopenic purpura, Heparin induced thrombocytopenia and
Disseminated intravascular coagulation in the critically ill;
Thrombocytopenia associated multiple organ failure (TAMOF);
Meningococcemia; Immune consequences of endothelial dysfunction
during sepsis; Therapeutic targets in thrombotic microangiopathies
with a focus on endothelial disorders; and Coagulation disorders in
HLH/Macrophage activation syndrome.
This book covers several areas, such as immunology, infectious
diseases, physiology, general nursing, and medicine as well as
measurement accuracy and the history of our understanding of fever.
This book employs an interdisciplinary approach to exploring our
concept of body temperature and specifically fever. The present
volume revolves around thermometry, taking the reader on a journey
from the past to the present. Yet while the emphasis is on the
clinical importance of obtaining accurate, quantitative
measurements of body temperature, the reader is also introduced to
the most recent clinical work on the subject. This book represents
a truly cross-disciplinary collaboration, using evidence-based
practice to integrate physiological and immunological knowledge.
The authors' intention with this volume is to help readers gain
better insight into the importance of using knowledge from
different disciplines to develop an appreciation of the different
aspects of body temperature. In addition, the reader will come to
understand the concept of fever in a broader perspective than is
traditionally adopted.
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