Sepsis: Definitions, Pathophysiology and the Challenge of Bedside Management

Sepsis: Definitions, Pathophysiology and the Challenge of Bedside Management

A comprehensive and state-of-the-art resource for clinicians who care for patients with sepsis and research scientist alike. Patients with severe sepsis requiring ICU admission have very high rates of ICU and overall... read more

Mechanical Ventilation in Patient with Respiratory Failure

Mechanical Ventilation in Patient with Respiratory Failure

This handbook covers the principles of mechanical ventilation, making them easy to understand and apply in clinical settings. Presented in an accessible style and supplemented by a wealth of illustrations and graphs, it includes... read more

A Beginner’s Guide to Vasopressors: Inodilators, Inopressors, Methylene Blue, Midodrine: An Essential Manual to Understanding Cardiac Medications and Cardiovascular Hemodynamic Mechanics

A Beginner’s Guide to Vasopressors: Inodilators, Inopressors, Methylene Blue, Midodrine: An Essential Manual to Understanding Cardiac Medications and Cardiovascular Hemodynamic Mechanics

The use of pressors and dilators are common in intensive care units, especially concerning the heart. With different mechanisms of action and titrations, it is essential to know how each of the drugs perform and the potential... read more

Neonatology Questions and Controversies: Neonatal Hemodynamics

Neonatology Questions and Controversies: Neonatal Hemodynamics

Dr. Richard Polin's Neonatology Questions and Controversies series highlights the toughest challenges facing physicians and care providers in clinical practice, offering trustworthy guidance on up-to-date diagnostic and treatment... read more

Introduction to Hemodynamics

Introduction to Hemodynamics

This book presents a bibliographical work on the modeling of blood dynamics. The first chapter describes the anatomy of the cardiovascular system and the functioning of the blood circulation. The second chapter is devoted... read more

Microbial Endocrinology: Interkingdom Signaling in Infectious Disease and Health

Microbial Endocrinology: Interkingdom Signaling in Infectious Disease and Health

This new edition highlights the numerous advances made in the field of microbial endocrinology over the last five years. Prominent among these new topics featured is the emergence of the microbiota-gut-brain axis and the... read more

Hematologic Challenges in the Critically Ill

Hematologic Challenges in the Critically Ill

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of hematologic issues that clinicians regularly encounter in the critical care environment. The text features hematologic scenarios that affect the adult ICU patient, outlines... read more

Pulmonary Hypertension: Basic Science to Clinical Medicine

Pulmonary Hypertension: Basic Science to Clinical Medicine

This book provides the framework for a singular reference in the field of pulmonary hypertension. Pulmonary vascular disease is a complex and heterogeneous condition characterized by remodeling of distal pulmonary arterioles... read more

Renal Replacement Therapy: Controversies and Future Trends

Renal Replacement Therapy: Controversies and Future Trends

Controversies and trends have always been present in nephrology. Since its inception and throughout its development, renal replacement therapy has been shrouded in uncertainty, even as it advances, and it has always been... read more

Nursing in Critical Care Setting: An Overview from Basic to Sensitive Outcomes

Nursing in Critical Care Setting: An Overview from Basic to Sensitive Outcomes

This book provides essential insights into how the approach to nursing care in ICU patients has markedly changed over recent years. It shows how the focus has progressively moved away from the technical approach that characterized... read more

Nursing Care and ECMO

Nursing Care and ECMO

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... read more

COVID-19 Critical and Intensive Care Medicine Essentials

COVID-19 Critical and Intensive Care Medicine Essentials

This book provides healthcare professionals in Critical Care setting an easy consultation guide to fight against COVID-19. The book is divided into sections: Fundamentals of COVID-19, Pneumological critical care, Neurological... read more

Handbook of Critical Care Medicine

Handbook of Critical Care Medicine

The management of critically ill patients is an important and integral part of internal medicine practice. Often, junior doctors and medical students receive insufficient training in this area of medicine. There are important... read more

Reducing Mortality in Critically Ill Patients

Reducing Mortality in Critically Ill Patients

This book describes the techniques, strategies, and drugs that have been demonstrated by multicenter randomized trials to influence survival in critically ill patients, defined as those who have acute failure of at least... read more