Sepsis

Sepsis

Written by an international group of experts in the field, Sepsis, Third Edition is a valuable resource that provides the most practical information for clinicians and practitioners who treat this complication in the ICU.... read more

How I Learned to Read ECGs Better than a Cardiologist

How I Learned to Read ECGs Better than a Cardiologist

I left medical school with a poor understanding of ECGs. I could determine the rate, rhythm, and axis, and maybe a "tombstone" STEMI, but that was about it. During the first week of residency at NYU/Bellevue, I became... read more

The Invasion of the Physician Assistants

The Invasion of the Physician Assistants

I was a senior emergency medicine resident at Darnall Army Community Hospital in Fort Hood, TX, in 1992. I wanted to do an elective rotation in anesthesia and to work closer to home because my wife and I lived 50 miles... read more

Trauma Nursing: From Resuscitation Through Rehabilitation

Trauma Nursing: From Resuscitation Through Rehabilitation

Learn to provide state-of-the-art care to any patient in any setting with the most comprehensive trauma nursing resource available. Using the unique cycles of trauma framework, Trauma Nursing: From Resuscitation Through... read more

First ICU Certified in Humanization (H-ICU)

First ICU Certified in Humanization (H-ICU)

250 ICUs around the world that have performed the self-assessment, the baseline compliance referred is between 40 and 60%. For more than a year, the team of the ICU of Valdemoro distributed the pending good practices and... read more

Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation

Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation

#1 Best Seller! New 7th Edition! Powerful resource for interactive, simulation-based teaching and learning! The Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) is an educational program jointly sponsored by the American Academy of... read more

Pain Response to Open Label Placebo in Induced Acute Pain in Healthy Adult Males

Pain Response to Open Label Placebo in Induced Acute Pain in Healthy Adult Males

Open label placebos might play a role in multimodal analgesic concepts. Pain ratings (median, first to third quartile) were 21% lower during placebo treatment compared to no treatment, 4.0 (3.2 to 4.9) versus 5.1 (4.7... read more

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Care of the Critically Ill or Injured Child

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Care of the Critically Ill or Injured Child

The second edition of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine spans three volumes, with major sections dedicated to specific organ systems. Each major section consists of separate chapters dedicated to reviewing the specific... read more

Cardiac Intensive Care

Cardiac Intensive Care

Using a multidisciplinary, team-oriented approach, this unique title expertly covers all the latest approaches to the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with critical cardiac illness. Led by Dr David L. Brown,... read more

Competing and Conflicting Interests in the Care of Critically Ill Patients

Competing and Conflicting Interests in the Care of Critically Ill Patients

Medical professionals are expected to prioritize patient interests, and most patients trust physicians to act in their best interest. However, a single patient is never a physician's sole concern. The competing interests... read more

Snapshots of Hemodynamics

Snapshots of Hemodynamics

This new edition reviews recent developments in genetics and molecular biology and new noninvasive measurement techniques that have enabled vast improvements in the measurement and understanding of cardiovascular hemodynamics.... read more

Neuropharmacotherapy in Critical Illness

Neuropharmacotherapy in Critical Illness

The field of research related to neurocritical care has grown significantly in recent years, and the clinical demands for current and dependable expertise has followed suit. It can be a challenge for the neurocritical practitioner... read more

Presentations from WSD Supporter Meeting at the World Congress of Intensive Care in Melbourne

Presentations from WSD Supporter Meeting at the World Congress of Intensive Care in Melbourne

On Wednesday, October 16th, 2019, World Sepsis Day Supporters from all around the globe came together at the World Congress of Intensive Care in Melbourne, Australia, for a World Sepsis Day Supporter Meeting. Simon Finfer,... read more

Post-ICU Clinics and Peer Support Groups to Reduce PICS

Post-ICU Clinics and Peer Support Groups to Reduce PICS

Kyle B. Enfield, MD, and Kimberley J. Haines, PhD, BHSc, discuss implementing post-ICU clinics and peer support groups following critical illness to help reduce the burden of post-intensive care syndrome (PICS). Dr. Haines... read more