Tag: education
Prediction and Management of Severe Acute Pancreatitis
This volume provides a comprehensive summary of the field, with expert recommendations on prediction and management. It details the recent consensus guidelines (2012) updating the definition of pancreatitis and its complications.... read more
Huddling for High Reliability and Situation Awareness
This study objectives were to explore hospital administrator and frontline staff perspectives on the benefits and challenges of implementing a tiered huddle system; and propose a model based on our findings depicting the... read more
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
Using Propensity Scoring Analyses in Critical Care Research
Observational studies are a common and important aspect of critical care research. A key challenge in the design of observational studies is the control of confounding. Confounding arises when the groups being compared in... read more
Impact of Weekly Case-based Tele-education on Quality of Care in a Limited Resource Medical ICU
Limited critical care subspecialty training and experience is available in many low- and middle-income countries, creating barriers to the delivery of evidence-based critical care. We hypothesized that a structured tele-education... read more
Neurocritical Care for the Advanced Practice Clinician
By utilizing a review of case-based studies and providing concise management recommendations from leaders in the field, this book provides essential knowledge for those practicing in a dynamic specialty. In the rapidly developing... read more
Pediatric Hypertension and Hypertensive Emergencies: Recognition and Management in the Emergency Department
Pediatric hypertension generally presents to the ED in 2 forms: (1) the otherwise asymptomatic child with elevated blood pressure, and (2) the child with a true hypertensive emergency. This issue provides recommendations... 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
Handbook on the Neuropsychology of Traumatic Brain Injury
This book collects and synthesizes the latest thinking on the condition in its variety of cognitive and behavioral presentations, matched by a variety of clinical responses. Acknowledging the continuum of injury and the multi-stage... 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
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
Time To Stop Labeling Physicians As Providers
Back when I was in business school, I interviewed for a job at a health care consulting firm. During one of the interviews, a partner there told me that there isn't too much difference between running a hospital and running... read more
