EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OF THE HI-TECH PATIENT IN ACUTE AND CRITICAL
CARE Emergency Management of the Hi-Tech Patient in Acute and
Critical Care helps practitioners stabilize and care for pediatric
and adult patients who have specialized medical devices such as
prosthetic valves, cochlear transplants, insulin pumps, orthopedic
hardware, and ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunts. Using a
step-by-step approach to acute presentations of patients with
clinical hardware, this concise yet comprehensive guide provides
specific instructions for the initial evaluation and management of
numerous clinical scenarios including device malfunctions,
infections, trauma, surgical complications, and more. Encompassing
management of both the patient and the device, the guide enables
emergency and critical care clinicians to rapidly make appropriate
treatment decisions without the immediate need for extensive
research, extended discussions with subspecialists, or recalling
complex diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms. Clear, concise, and
easy-to-follow chapters--written by a panel of highly experienced
experts across specialties--include numerous algorithms, figures,
tables, diagrams, and color illustrations and clinical images. An
invaluable resource for improving the quality of care for the
unique hi-tech patient population, this advanced practical manual:
Provides algorithms for the most common clinical scenarios of
device malfunction and related complications Covers management of
patients who have undergone major operations such as organ
transplantation or complex congenital heart disease repair Presents
detailed management plans for a wide range of hardware types and
medical conditions Offers expert guidance to practitioners in
settings where not all specialties are readily available, such as
rural and remote areas or community hospitals Features
contributions from a team of experts in various areas of adult and
pediatric emergency and critical care medicine Emergency Management
of the Hi-Tech Patient in Acute and Critical Care is a must-have
clinical reference and guide for pediatric and adult emergency
medicine physicians, general pediatricians, internists, general
practitioners, critical care specialists, and allied health
practitioners.
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