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Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Accident & emergency medicine > Intensive care medicine
A brand new series from Oxford University Press, the Oxford
Clinical Imaging Guides are specifically designed to help doctors
master imaging techniques. Each guide explains the principles and
practice of using imaging in an easy-to-read, highly-illustrated,
and authoritative manner. Acute and Critical Care Echocardiography
is the first practical guide dedicated to helping doctors use
transthoracic echocardiography to manage acutely and critically ill
patients. The book provides readers with a grounding in theoretical
evidence-based aspects of critical care echocardiography. Expert
authors help the reader apply this knowledge on a daily basis via
clear step-by-step techniques and a focus on problem-solving and
safe practice. The book is mapped to the new accreditation syllabus
in Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography set by the British
Society of Echocardiography, ensuring that it is relevant to
professional standards and teaches doctors exactly what they need
to know. Self-assessment questions help readers retain what they
have learned and revise for exams. An essential day-to-day
reference and interactive guide, this unique book should never be
far from the critical care medic's side.
Dr. Goldsworthy has created a state-of-the-art issue that
emphasizes the nurse's role in mechanical ventilation. Pertinent
clinical topics include the following: basics of mechanical
ventilation for nurses; current modes for mechanical ventilation;
best practices for managing pain, sedation, and delirium in the
mechanically ventilated patient; mobilization of and optimal
oxygenation for the mechanicaly ventilated patient; managing
complications; and effective weaning strategies. Authors also
address mechanical ventilation in both children and neonates. The
current content in this issue will leave nurses with the clinical
information they need to effectively manage mechanically ventilated
patients.
The global trend of increasingly ageing societies and long term
illnesses has meant a growth in demand for intensive care
resources. This book advises on leadership and organizational
development of intensive care units, in order to give best
practices for governance, performance, emergency response and
safety. Written by international experts in the field, each chapter
allows researchers, clinicians and service providers worldwide to
be able to refer to this single reference book. In seven parts, the
volume will tackle aspects of intensive care management in both
global and local contexts, and interrogate the key concerns that
service providers face. It works as an informative guide for the
practical administration of intensive care, as well as being
international in its design and information.
Every adult should read this book. In the USA you are considered to
be a "Full Code" i.e. we will automatically keep you alive no
matter what, if we can, unless you tell us otherwise. Is this what
you want? Is it what your loved ones want for you or for
themselves? Have you all EFFECTIVELY communicated your healthcare
wishes? Linda Ingalls RN and critical care nurse for over 30 years
wants to inform and empower you to understand the levels of
resuscitation, critical care and long term life supports as well as
your end of life choices so you can make decisions based upon Love
not fear and then how to effectively communicate your wishes. She
gives you guidelines she has successfully used with countless
people to approach these subjects; how to ask relative questions of
your doctors; and discusses withdrawing life support to promote a
peaceful passing. She provides you with techniques on coping and
creating a healing environment when you visit. Also included is a
basic introduction to critical care equipment and common illnesses
My Wife's Death I see my self as saving patients lives and money.
What that means to me is passing on my first hand experience of the
malpractice death of my wife on July 19, 2004, the resulting
malpractice lawsuit suit and years of hard research on our health
care system. My wife was an outstanding lady. She was the first
woman bank vice president in Lubbock, Texas . Her death devastated
me and my son and his family to this day. In fact she was rocking
one of his two daughters two nights before she went into hospital.
Her death haunts me even more me because it was preventable A
preventable infection. I blindly trusted the health care system and
was betrayed.
Best of Five MCQs for the Acute Medicine SCE is a new revision
resource designed specifically for this high-stakes exam.
Containing over 350 Best of Five multiple choice questions, this
dedicated guide will help candidates to prepare successfully. The
content mirrors the SCE in Acute Medicine Blueprint to ensure
candidates are fully prepared for all the topics that may appear in
the exam. Topics range from how to manage acute problems in
cardiology or neurology to managing acute conditions such as
poisoning. All answers have full explanations and further reading
to ensure high quality self-assessment and quick recognition of
areas that require further study.
Although Clinical alarm systems at the Critical Care Settings are
proposed to alert caregivers of potential patients' problems it
produce a noise environment that induce momentous negative
alterations in the patients' health and safety especially if
ignored or desensitized as a re-sult of overwhelming, This book
aims at highlighting the clinical alarms in the Critical Care
Settings and associated hazards to the patients and caregivers in
addition to suggest clinical solutions and identify advanced
systems that may be solving these problems. ECRI Institute
scheduled alarm hazards as the number one issue of its annual list
of the top 10 health-technology dangers since 2014. In fact almost
of alarms in Critical Care Settings considered as a false alarms
(has no clinical significant) so the author aiming at finding
evidenced based strategies to preventing these false alarms and
consequently minimizing the entire alarms in Critical Care Setting
and it's hazards.
There are some relatively-general books which have been written to
address broad issues with respect to Mechanical Ventilation Support
(MVS). There are also some general courses and training programs
for use of such technology in patient care. However, there is a
need for a practitioner resource that focuses on the specialized
clinical issues which arise when treating patients with acute
neurological injury who require mechanical ventilation. This book
has been written to address this need. This book shares insights
gleaned from many years of practice and leadership in neurocritical
care, including mechanical ventilation for neurocritical care
patients, and should prove useful for practitioners caring for such
patients.
When a boy named Billy follows a 70's man with a 70's hair style,
he is suddenly thrust into an underground world filled with
mystical creatures, such as dwarves. He finds out that his father
was an important man in the land underneath, which is called Inbet.
In a battle between good and bad, Retros versus Rock Devils, Billy
joins the fight for the Retros. This book is written in the unique
style of a medium book. There are short stories and regular books,
but this is the best of both worlds. This style allows a more
developed plot and more characters, while having more action in
less space. Therefore more interesting and exciting, but still an
easy to read and quick book. 62 pages
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