The Impacts of Gender Disparity in Residency Matching

The Impacts of Gender Disparity in Residency Matching

A critical turning point for the female physician is highlighted in the study by Lorello et al1 as another one of the numerous inequities throughout the female physician’s career life cycle. Their study’s extensive assessment... read more

Clinical Evaluation of a High-fidelity Upper Arm Cuff to Measure Arterial Blood Pressure during Noncardiac Surgery

Clinical Evaluation of a High-fidelity Upper Arm Cuff to Measure Arterial Blood Pressure during Noncardiac Surgery

The new high-fidelity upper arm cuff method met the current international standards in terms of accuracy and precision. It was also very accurate to track changes in blood pressure and reliably detect severe hypotension during... read more

Cardiothoracic Critical Care

Cardiothoracic Critical Care

This new bedside manual guides you through all the practical aspects of managing patients following cardiothoracic surgery and critically ill cardiology patients. Primarily designed to use in cardiothoracic intensive care... read more

Using Dynamic Variables to Guide Perioperative Fluid Management

Using Dynamic Variables to Guide Perioperative Fluid Management

Intravenous fluid administration is an integral part of patient management during anesthesia. This practice has a strong clinical rationale since a decrease in blood volume, either present before or developing during surgery,... read more

Standardized Perioperative Feeding Protocol Improves Outcomes

Standardized Perioperative Feeding Protocol Improves Outcomes

An aggressive, but safe, perioperative feeding protocol implemented in a homogenous low-risk neonatal cardiac surgical population improves feeding outcomes, including increased weight gain, as well as decreased postoperative... read more

When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

A gifted surgeon illuminates one of the most profound, awe-inspiring, and deeply affecting achievements of modern day medicine—the movement of organs between bodies—in this exceptional work of death and life that takes... read more

Pulse Wave Analysis to Estimate Cardiac Output

Pulse Wave Analysis to Estimate Cardiac Output

Cardiac output (CO)–guided therapy is a promising approach to hemodynamic management in high-risk patients having major surgery and in critically ill patients with circulatory shock. Pulmonary artery thermodilution remains... read more

Case Studies in Adult Intensive Care Medicine

Case Studies in Adult Intensive Care Medicine

Guiding FFICM and EDIC exam candidates through the intensive care medicine curriculum, this book provides 48 case studies mapped to eight key areas of study in the UK and European syllabuses. Cases include clinical vignettes,... read more

Angiotensin II in Post Cardiopulmonary Bypass Vasoplegia

Angiotensin II in Post Cardiopulmonary Bypass Vasoplegia

Post cardiopulmonary bypass vasoplegia is common, and associated with poor outcomes. Traditional management strategies involving escalating doses of catecholamines, vasopressin and adjuncts such as methylene blue and hydroxycobalamin... read more

Lange Critical Care

Lange Critical Care

LANGE Critical Care delivers concise, evidenced-based, and highly clinical coverage of the surgical and medical aspects of critical care. The book provides basic fundamentals, applications and insights that will be of lasting... read more

Surgery of the Inferior Vena Cava

Surgery of the Inferior Vena Cava

This book addresses an urgent need, offering an updated, detailed and multidisciplinary review of surgery of the inferior vena cava (IVC). Over the past two decades, tremendous advances have been made in this field and related... read more

Rapid Advancement in Enteral Nutrition Does Not Affect Systemic Inflammation and Insulin Homeostasis Following Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Bypass Surgery

Rapid Advancement in Enteral Nutrition Does Not Affect Systemic Inflammation and Insulin Homeostasis Following Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Bypass Surgery

A FF strategy was not associated with changes to early enteral nutrition delivery. Inflammation, insulin resistance, and morbidity were similar, but FF may modify the relationship between inflammation and adverse event. Multicenter... read more

TOP KNIFE: The Art & Craft of Trauma Surgery

TOP KNIFE: The Art & Craft of Trauma Surgery

A practical guide to operative trauma surgery for residents and registrars, for general surgeons with an interest in trauma, and for isolated surgeons operating on wounded patients in military, rural or humanitarian settings.... read more

The Case for Routine Screening for COVID-19 Before Surgery

The Case for Routine Screening for COVID-19 Before Surgery

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused more than 5 million cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) worldwide and 345,000 deaths as of 25 May 2020. Based on accumulating international experience... read more