Tag: book
Floating Feathers: A Doctor’s Harrowing Experience as a Patient Within Conventional Medicine and an Impassioned Call for the Future of Care in America
Dr. Ross I.S. Zbar spent his career as a plastic surgeon, in the US as well as abroad in developing countries, mending disease- and trauma-related deformities--and he was never hesitant to make his voice heard as an advocate... read more
Sedation Practices and Characteristics of Ventilated Patients
Patients on mechanical ventilator experience anxiety and physiological stress. Sedating them can help those patients to cope up with ET tube, to bear all the interventions, for accessing adequate oxygenation and above... read more
Inhaled Sedation in the ICU: A New Option and Its Technical Prerequisites
Andreas Meiser summarizes the current literature on inhalation sedation of critically ill patients. To meet clinical demands, he describes the development of new devices to administer volatile anesthetics together with common... read more
Point of Care Ultrasound
Compact, hand-carried ultrasound devices are revolutionizing how healthcare providers practice medicine in nearly every specialty. The 2nd Edition of this award-winning text features all-new chapters, a greatly expanded... read more
Case Files Critical Care (LANGE Case Files)
Experience with clinical cases is key to mastering the art and science of medicine and ultimately to providing patients with competent clinical care. Case Files: Critical Care provides 42 true-to-life cases that illustrate... read more
The Practice and Principles of Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
As demonstrated in the first book, the management of patients with profound respiratory failure or cardiogenic shock has evolved significantly over the years with advances in diagnostic and therapeutic options. While the... read more
Undercover Epicenter Nurse: How Fraud, Negligence, and Greed Led to Unnecessary Deaths at Elmhurst Hospital
What would you do if you discovered that the media and the government were lying to us all? And that hundreds, maybe thousands of people were dying because of it? Army combat veteran and registered nurse Erin Olszewski’s... read more
Critical Care Emergency Medicine
The groundbreaking text on critical care emergency medicine – updated with the latest evidence and recommendations. Critical Care Emergency Medicine has become the standard reference for all clinicians who wish to understand... read more
Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Modeling and Simulation
This is a second edition to the original published by Springer in 2006. The comprehensive volume takes a textbook approach systematically developing the field by starting from linear models and then moving up to generalized... read more
Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics: Concepts and Applications
Updated with the latest clinical advances, Rowland and Tozer’s Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics, Fifth Edition , explains the relationship between drug administration and drug response, taking a conceptual... read more
Trauma: My Life as an Emergency Surgeon
TRAUMA is Dr. Cole's harrowing account of his life spent in the ER and on the battlegrounds, fighting to save lives. In addition to his gripping stories of treating victims of gunshot wounds, stabbings, attempted suicides,... read more
Operative Techniques and Recent Advances in Acute Care and Emergency Surgery
The aim of this book is to identify and shed new light on the main surgical practices involved in acute care and trauma surgery. Adopting an evidence-based approach, a multidisciplinary team of surgeons and intensivists... read more
Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice
Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice: Model and Guidelines has proven to be one of the most foundational books on EBP in nursing. This fully revised third edition builds on the strength of the first two editions... read more
Mayo Clinic Critical and Neurocritical Care Board Review
Mayo Clinic Critical and Neurocritical Care Board Review is an all-inclusive review of the pathophysiology and care of the neurocritically ill and critically ill patient. The book reviews the core major critical care... read more
Biomarkers of Kidney Disease
Biomarkers of Kidney Disease, Second Edition, focuses on the basic and clinical research of biomarkers in common kidney diseases, detailing the characteristics of an ideal biomarker. The latest techniques for biomarker detection,... read more
Traumatic and Ischemic Injury: Methods and Protocols
This volume focuses on procedures for the development and application of several research animal models and in vitro methods that allow researchers to gain insight into the underlying cellular, biochemical, and physiological... read more
Common Problems in the ICU
A concise learning tool designed for residents, nurses, and other ICU professionals, Textbook of Critical Care: Common Problems in the ICU highlights the most common conditions encountered in the ICU – all in a convenient... read more
Left Septal Fascicular Block
This book provides clinical and electrovectorcardiographic evidence of the existence of left septal fascicular blocks and demonstrates the clinical importance of these blocks in the clinical scenario of acute coronary syndrome.... read more
Key Topics in Critical Care
High quality critical care medicine is a crucial component of advanced health care. Completely revised and updated, Key Topics in Critical Care, Second Edition provides a broad knowledge base in the major areas of critical... read more
Duty of Care: One NHS Doctor’s Story of Courage and Compassion on the COVID-19 Frontline
The first book to tell the full story of the Covid-19 pandemic, from an NHS doctor working inside hospitals to save lives and combat the virus on the front line. Duty of Care is the first book to tell the full story of... read more
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. Striking humanity in waves, the cycle of plagues set the tempo of civilizational growth and decline, since... read more
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread – And Why They Stop
From ideas and infections to financial crises and fake news, an "utterly timely" look at why the science of outbreaks is the science of modern life These days, whenever anything spreads, whether it's a YouTube fad or a... read more
