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Understanding the Essentials of Critical Care Nursing
Understanding the Essentials of Critical Care Nursing provides novice critical care nurses with a firm foundation so that they are able to understand the complexities of care; deliver safe, effective care; and begin their... read more
Clinical Practice Manual for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Clinical Practice Manual for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, by Judd W. Landsberg, MD, is a unique point-of-care manual that provides essential information on managing inpatients and outpatients with common, serious... read more
Clinical Prediction Models: A Practical Approach to Development, Validation, and Updating
Prediction models are important in various fields, including medicine, physics, meteorology, and finance. Prediction models will become more relevant in the medical field with the increase in knowledge on potential predictors... read more
Emergency Medicine: Diagnosis and Management
Emergency Medicine: Diagnosis and Management incorporates the latest ideas and evidence base underpinning best practice emergency medicine care. This book covers a wide variety of emergencies, including general medical, critical... read more
Ventilator Management: Advanced Concepts In Critical Care
Mechanical ventilation is a broad subject that encompasses many factors that must be considered while providing overall resuscitation. It is not as easy as just entering in a rate and tidal volume and pushing start. Critical... read more
Intracranial Pressure & Neuromonitoring XVI
This book introduces the latest advances relating to the pathophysiology, biophysics, monitoring and treatment of traumatic brain injury, hydrocephalus, and stroke presented at the 16th International Conference on Intracranial... read more
New Hope for Concussions TBI & PTSD
Dr. Larry Komer and Joan Chandler Komer offer new hope to those with brain injuries. Millions of people of all ages experience concussions. Many others have a more serious event known as a traumatic brain injury. Battlefield... read more
Practical Transfusion Medicine
The fifth edition of this practical textbook on transfusion medicine has been thoroughly revised with the latest in scientific and technological developments and edited by a leading team of international expert hematologists,... read more
Acute Lung Injury: Epidemiology, Health Effects and Therapeutic Treatment Strategies
ALI/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is characterized by diffuse alveolar damage, alveolar capillary leakage, lung edema, neutrophil-derived inflammation, and surfactant dysfunction. These changes lead to clinical... read more
Hypothermia and Cerebral Ischemia: Mechanisms and Clinical Applications
A comprehensive review of the scientific and clinical studies that have led to the resurgence of interest in hypothermia as a neuroprotective strategy in the treatment of stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Topics... read more
Tales From The Bedside: True Stories From A Night-Shift ICU Nurse
Tales From The Bedside is a collection of short stories from a caring and brilliant ICU nurse. Her stories will captivate you, make you laugh, warm your heart, shake your head, and just maybe... will inspire you, too. Step... read more
The Oxygen Revolution: The Definitive Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) & Other Disorders
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is based on a simple idea—that oxygen can be used therapeutically for a wide range of conditions where tissues have been damaged by oxygen deprivation. Inspiring and informative, The... read more
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
Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
The only comprehensive source of information on this frequently misdiagnosed problem, with information critical for physicians, ER and ICU doctors, and psychiatrists. An under-recognized condition that can potentially... read more
Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome
After completing her medical training in New York, Susan Levenstein set off for a one year adventure in Rome. Forty years later, she is still practicing medicine in the Eternal City. In Dottoressa: An American Doctor... read more
That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf between her parents' experiences and her own was impossible to bridge, save for two elements: medicine and spirituality. Between... read more
Intensive Care Unit Telemedicine, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics
This issue of Critical Care Clinics, edited by Dr. Kianoush Kashani in collaboration with Consulting Editor Dr. John Kellum, is focused on Intensive Care Unit Telemedicine. Topics in this issue include: ICU telemedicine... read more
When Brains Collide: What Every Athlete and Parent Should Know About the Prevention and Treatment of Concussions and Head Injuries
There is nearly a 20% chance that you or someone close to you will suffer a concussion this year. Whether they are in a car accident, fall off their bike, or suffer a helmet-to-helmet hit at football practice, over 30%... read more
Practical Trends in Anesthesia and Intensive Care 2018
This book offers an essential guide to managing the most-debated hot topics of practical interest in anesthesia and intensive care. It reviews the state of the art in issues concerning both intensive care medicine and anesthesia,... read more
Complications in Acute Care Surgery: The Management of Difficult Clinical Scenarios
This text provides the reader a starting point for the most difficult and uncommon complications in acute care surgery. It is designed to provide options to that ubiquitous intra-operative or bedside question "Well, now what... read more
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
