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Critical Care Study Guide: Text and Review
Critical care medicine is a dynamic and exciting arena where complex pathophysiologic states require extensive knowledge and up-to-date clinical information. An extensive knowledge of basic pathophysiology, as well as awareness... read more
Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery: Clinical Questions and Answers
A unique question-and-answer book for surgical residents and trainees that covers all surgical aspects of critical care and acute or emergency medicine. This is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind question-and-answer text for... read more
Where Night Is Day: The World of the ICU
Where Night Is Day is a nonfiction narrative grounded in the day-by-day, hour-by-hour rhythms of an ICU in a teaching hospital in the heart of New Mexico. It takes place over a thirteen-week period, the time of the average... read more
Metabolic Acidosis: A Guide to Clinical Assessment and Management
This timely volume provides an overview to the causes, effects on systems and clinical approaches of metabolic acidosis. Beginning with a basic understanding of the physiology, pathophysiology and development of this disease,... read more
Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestseller The Checklist Manifesto. A Johns Hopkins surgeon and professor of public health, he can testify to the amazing power of modern... read more
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome... read more
Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctor-patient relationship--the heart of medicine--is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients, and medical errors and... read more
Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors
From ER and M*A*S*H to Grey's Anatomy and House, the medical drama endures for good reason: we're fascinated by the people we must trust when we are most vulnerable. In Also Human, vocational psychologist Caroline Elton introduces... read more
AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care
The AACN Procedure Manual for High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care, 7th Edition, authored by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, is the authoritative reference to procedures performed in high acuity,... read more
Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare
Enhance your clinical decision-making capabilities and improve patient outcomes through evidence-based practice. Develop the skills and knowledge you need to make evidence-based practice (EBP) an integral part of your clinical... read more
Textbook of Critical Care
Comprehensive, concise, and readable, Textbook of Critical Care, 7th Edition, brings you fully up to date with the effective management of critically ill patients, providing the evidence-based guidance you need to overcome... read more
Critical Care Nursing – Diagnosis and Management
Get a firm understanding and mastery of the unique issues and procedures involved in critical care nursing with Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management, 8th Edition. Praised for its comprehensive coverage and clear... read more
Internal Medicine Board Review E-Book: Certification and Recertification
Don't gamble on the most important exam of your career... ace the boards with The Johns Hopkins Internal Medicine Board Review! Brought to you from the birthplace of Internal Medicine and regarded as the most effective review... read more
Snapshots of Hemodynamics: An Aid for Clinical Research and Graduate Education
This new edition reviews recent developments in genetics and molecular biology and new noninvasive measurement techniques that have enabled vast improvements in the measurement and understanding of cardiovascular hemodynamics.... read more
Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatrics
Children in precarious health present particular problems for healthcare professionals because of their intimate relation to their family, and because of the family's need to provide major long-term source of support and... read more
Critical Care Pearls: Basics for Critical Patient Care and Board Review
Critical Care Pearls for medical professionals involved in taking care of critically ill patients. An excellent resource for board review written by Dr. Iqbal Ratnani and Dr. Salim Surani. Dr. Iqbal Ratnani, MD, FCCP, FCCM... read more
Lights and Sirens
A true account of going through UCLA's famed Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program—and practicing emergency medicine on the streets of Los Angeles. Nine months of tying tourniquets and pushing new medications, of IVs, chest... read more
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctor-patient relationship, the heart of medicine, is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients, and medical errors and... read more
Graceful Exit: How to Advocate Effectively, Take Care of Yourself, and Be Present for the Death of a Loved One
When we are thrust into the role of caregiver for a loved one who is in the process of dying, it's easy to get overwhelmed. Yet it's a situation millions of us face every year with virtually no sort of preparation or guidance.... read more
In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
In Shock is a riveting first-hand account from a young critical care physician, who in the passage of a moment is transfigured into a dying patient. This transposition, coincidentally timed at the end of her medical training,... read more
RRT Board Exam: Dominate the Hemodynamic and ECG Portion of the Respiratory Therapy Board Exam
Our RRT Board exam series helps you study smarter, not harder. Instead of giving you information overload, we focus solely on the most recent NBRC TMC and clinical simulation exam matrix. Start feeling more confident and... read more
Optimizing Hemodynamic Support in Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics
Guest Editor Dane Nichols, MD, has assembled a panel of experts focusing on Hemodynamic Support in Septic Shock. Topics include: Oxygen Delivery and Consumption: A Macro-Circulatory Perspective; Mean Arterial Pressure: Therapeutic... read more
