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Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Accident & emergency medicine > Intensive care medicine
This book explores the unique aspects involved in the management of
ECMO patients such as physiopathology and indications, setting up
the device, monitoring ECMO and the patient, troubleshooting,
ethical aspects and rehabilitation. For the past eight years,
management of acute heart failure and Acute Respiratory Distress
Syndrome (ARDS) patients has been improved by the development of
short-term assistance devices, with ECMO as a first line treatment.
This highly informative book provides essential insights for ICU
nurses at ECMO centers around the world, who face the substantial
challenges involved in the management of ECMO patients. Above all,
it meets their training needs with regard to bedside monitoring for
these patients, which has become a major issue. The editors and
most of the contributors serve at La Pitie-Salpetriere ICU, France,
which, in terms of the number of admissions and major publications
produced, is one of the world's leading authorities on ECMO.
This issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Geno
Merli, Bharat Awsare, and Michael Baram, focuses on Pulmonary
Embolism in the ICU. 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: Making the Diagnosis of
Pulmonary Embolism: Stable Versus Unstable; Risk Stratification;
Overview of Management of Sub-massive and Massive Pulmonary
Embolism; Standard Therapy: Systemic Thrombolytics; IR Therapy: IVC
Filter and Catheter-based Therapies; Surgical Therapy: Embolectomy;
Supportive Therapy: Management of Acute RV Failure; Supportive
Therapy: ECMO/RVAD; Special Considerations; Therapy in
Sub-populations; and Post-ICU Follow-up.
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.
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