Tag: education
Advanced Perioperative Crisis Management
Advanced Perioperative Crisis Management is an ideal resource for trainees, clinicians, and nurses who work in the perioperative arena, from the operating room to the postoperative surgical ward. Advanced Perioperative Crisis... read more
Prevention of VAP: Effects of a National multi-modal Approach in Spain
This large, prospective multi-centre study demonstrates that a national approach (incorporating a care bundle, education cascade, and clinical governance process) for Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) prevention is feasible... read more
A Fundamentals Train-the-Trainer Approach to Building Pediatric Critical Care Expertise in the Developing World
Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support (PFCCS) is an educational tool for training non-intensivists, nurses, and critical care practitioners in diverse health-care settings to deal with the acute deterioration of pediatric... read more
The Next Generation of Doctors May be Learning Bad Habits at Teaching Hospitals with Many Safety Violations
Teaching hospitals like Jackson South, located in metro Miami, are where physician trainees get practice treating patients. They prepare the next generation of doctors, and they have a reputation as places of cutting-edge... read more
What’s Your Doctor Reading? How Social Media is Disrupting Medical Education
Traditionally, research would be presented at conferences, discussed at meetings, and gradually incorporated into international guidelines and textbooks. It would then filter down into clinical practice, years after its original... read more
Critical Care Reviews Book 2018
The Critical Care Reviews Book summarises, critiques and puts in context the biggest trials of the year. Five intensivists from Belfast, Northern Ireland, spend a year writing this in their own time. This is available as... read more
Precision Medicine, Genome Sequencing, and Improved Population Health
Despite controversy, major health systems across the globe are obtaining and making use of genome sequence data in patients they care for, hoping this approach will prove beneficial.1 Genome sequencing technology, a key driver... read more
I Wasn’t Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
This collection of true narratives reflects the dynamism and diversity of nurses, who provide the first vital line of patient care. Here, nurses remember their first “sticks,” first births, and first deaths, and reflect... read more
Helping Without Harming
You've been resuscitating the patient for hours and finally caught up with volume. You come back on your next shift only to find your colleague has been diuresing them all day. What the heck were they thinking!?! This normal... read more
Hidden Curricula, Ethics, and Professionalism: Optimizing Clinical Learning Environments in Becoming and Being a Physician
The educational and social milieu of medical learning environments is a complex system of influences. Role models across peer relationships and the hierarchy of medicine contribute to the formation of professional identity,... read more
ECMO, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics
This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Mechanical Circulartory Support. Editors Nitin Puri and Michael Baram have assembled an expert team of authors on topics such as: History of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation... read more
Why Do Nurses Quit?
Estimates are that up to 30-50% of nurses leave their position or quit nursing altogether in the first year. What drives nurses away? Some new grads do not survive the shock. Nursing school is insufficient preparation for... read more
Teaching Internal Medicine Residents About Palliative Care
A survey of nearly 800 resident physicians suggested that 90% deemed their residency education on the topic to be inadequate; 25% did not feel comfortable discussing end-of-life care with patients. Teachable moments in medicine... read more
Why Millennials are Choosing to be Physician Assistants, not Doctors
More and more young people are gravitating to the role of physician assistant over doctor. Several Delaware millennials cite its flexibility, condensed schooling, and cost as major reasons why they chose to become PAs. According... read more
Animal-assisted Intervention in the ICU: A Tool for Humanization
The combination of an aging population and advances in critical care medicine is resulting in a growing number of survivors of critical illness. Survivors' descriptions of their stay in an intensive care unit (ICU) are frequently... read more
Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
Formerly Clinical Pharmacokinetics: Concepts and Applications, this fully updated Fourth Edition has been retitled Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics: Concepts and Applications to reflect the increasing body of... read more
The Gene: An Intimate History
A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies, a fascinating history of the gene... read more
