Core Concepts in Acute Kidney Injury

Core Concepts in Acute Kidney Injury

This comprehensive guide covers the causes, characteristics, and presentations of acute kidney injury (AKI), as well as prevention and treatment. The first part of the book features chapters on the epidemiology and diagnosis... read more

Biomarkers of Kidney Disease

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

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

Pediatric Liver Intensive Care

Pediatric Liver Intensive Care

Acute management of children with liver disease and liver transplantation has rapidly evolved over the last two decades due to worldwide availability of complex liver surgery and liver transplantation. This book edited... read more

Common Problems in the ICU

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

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

Perioperative Fluid Management

Perioperative Fluid Management

This book presents the most recent evidence-based facts on perioperative fluid management and discusses fluid management from basic sciences to clinical applications and the patients’ outcomes. Recent advances in understanding... read more

Evidence-Based Critical Care: A Case Study Approach

Evidence-Based Critical Care: A Case Study Approach

This book provides learners with a unique opportunity by virtue of the format outlined above. Each case presentation has a case vignette, which leads up to an important clinical question, and is followed by additional discussion... read more

Key Topics in Critical Care

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

Clinical Examination Skills in the Adult Critically Ill Patient

Clinical Examination Skills in the Adult Critically Ill Patient

This well-illustrated book provides detailed guidance on all aspects of physical examination in patients requiring emergency or intensive care. After an introductory section covering basic principles and the recognition of... read more

Duty of Care: One NHS Doctor’s Story of Courage and Compassion on the COVID-19 Frontline

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

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

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

Stop Nurse Burnout: What to Do When Working Harder Isn’t Working

Stop Nurse Burnout: What to Do When Working Harder Isn’t Working

The first step-by-step manual for any nurse in any specialty to stop nurse burnout, build a more ideal career and a more balanced life. Chart your course from Nurse Burnout to Your Ideal Career using this first comprehensive... read more