Tag: education
Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease
This comprehensive textbook on the echocardiographic assessment of pediatric and congenital heart disease has been updated for a second edition with an emphasis on new technologies. This highly-illustrated full-color reference... read more
Dealing with Internet-based Information Obtained by Families of Critically Ill Patients
The increasing availability of web-based health information resources should foster intensivists to step out of their comfort zone and encourage families to discuss their online discoveries. The majority of families of... read more
Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine
With a focus on evidence-based, state-of-the-art information throughout, the eighth edition of Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine offers authoritative guidance to the wide variety of specialty physicians and non-physicians... read more
The ABCDE Bundle Associated with Significant Reductions in Duration of Mechanical Ventilation
The focus on long-term consequences of critical illness has intensified with increasing ICU utilization and survivorship. Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) is increasingly recognized and has profound and long-lasting negative... read more
Effects of a Multimodal Program Including Simulation on Job Strain Among Nurses Working in ICUs
Among ICU nurses, an intervention that included education, role-play, and debriefing resulted in a lower prevalence of job strain at 6 months compared with nurses who did not undergo this program. Further research is... read more
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
Hypertonic vs. Hypotonic, Osmolality, and Other Fun Nursing Concepts
The basic concepts underlying the body's mechanisms for keeping systems functioning are complex processes involving the ebb and flow of fluid and molecules controlled by several systems. It is a delicate balance and one... 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
How I Learned to Read ECGs Better than a Cardiologist
I left medical school with a poor understanding of ECGs. I could determine the rate, rhythm, and axis, and maybe a "tombstone" STEMI, but that was about it. During the first week of residency at NYU/Bellevue, I became... read more
The Invasion of the Physician Assistants
I was a senior emergency medicine resident at Darnall Army Community Hospital in Fort Hood, TX, in 1992. I wanted to do an elective rotation in anesthesia and to work closer to home because my wife and I lived 50 miles... 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
First ICU Certified in Humanization (H-ICU)
250 ICUs around the world that have performed the self-assessment, the baseline compliance referred is between 40 and 60%. For more than a year, the team of the ICU of Valdemoro distributed the pending good practices and... read more
Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation
#1 Best Seller! New 7th Edition! Powerful resource for interactive, simulation-based teaching and learning! The Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) is an educational program jointly sponsored by the American Academy of... read more
Pain Response to Open Label Placebo in Induced Acute Pain in Healthy Adult Males
Open label placebos might play a role in multimodal analgesic concepts. Pain ratings (median, first to third quartile) were 21% lower during placebo treatment compared to no treatment, 4.0 (3.2 to 4.9) versus 5.1 (4.7... 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
Cardiac Intensive Care
Using a multidisciplinary, team-oriented approach, this unique title expertly covers all the latest approaches to the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with critical cardiac illness. Led by Dr David L. Brown,... read more
