Your Must-Have Guide for Navigating the ICU The House Officer’s Guide to ICU Care is an eminently practical handbook for junior house officers, medical students, PAs, and nurses that offers nuts-and-bolts guidelines for optimal management of medical and surgical patients in the ICU setting.

The authors methodically guide clinicians through the decision-making process, first by outlining the pathophysiology of abnormalities seen in the ICU and then by explaining the principles underlying today’s therapeutic measures and describing how these agents and devices are used to ensure safe patient recovery.

While the text focuses on the postoperative cardiothoracic surgery patient, the principles and therapies covered are broadly relevant to all medical and general surgery ICU patients.

Important concepts were easy to understand for both the novice and more experienced ICU provider.

Another strength noted was the degree of cardiology content integrated into ICU material.

The illustrations depicted were also simple and easy to understand.

The book was interesting and would be easy to read for a variety of healthcare practitioners, such as registered nurses, residents, nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants, or even respiratory therapists.

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