Tag: education
Nursing Care and ECMO
This highly informative book provides essential insights for ICU nurses at ECMO centers around the world, who face the substantial challenges involved in the management of ECMO patients. Above all, it meets their training... read more
Fleisher & Ludwig’s Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Fleisher & Ludwig's Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine has long been acknowledged as the indispensable comprehensive clinical reference on diagnosing and managing emergent health issues in children. Now, a new editorial... read more
A Beginner’s Guide to Vasopressors: Inodilators, Inopressors, Methylene Blue, Midodrine: An Essential Manual to Understanding Cardiac Medications and Cardiovascular Hemodynamic Mechanics
The use of pressors and dilators are common in intensive care units, especially concerning the heart. With different mechanisms of action and titrations, it is essential to know how each of the drugs perform and the potential... read more
Neonatology Questions and Controversies: Neonatal Hemodynamics
Dr. Richard Polin's Neonatology Questions and Controversies series highlights the toughest challenges facing physicians and care providers in clinical practice, offering trustworthy guidance on up-to-date diagnostic and treatment... read more
Introduction to Hemodynamics
This book presents a bibliographical work on the modeling of blood dynamics. The first chapter describes the anatomy of the cardiovascular system and the functioning of the blood circulation. The second chapter is devoted... read more
Microbial Endocrinology: Interkingdom Signaling in Infectious Disease and Health
This new edition highlights the numerous advances made in the field of microbial endocrinology over the last five years. Prominent among these new topics featured is the emergence of the microbiota-gut-brain axis and the... read more
Renal Replacement Therapy: Controversies and Future Trends
Controversies and trends have always been present in nephrology. Since its inception and throughout its development, renal replacement therapy has been shrouded in uncertainty, even as it advances, and it has always been... read more
Nursing in Critical Care Setting: An Overview from Basic to Sensitive Outcomes
This book provides essential insights into how the approach to nursing care in ICU patients has markedly changed over recent years. It shows how the focus has progressively moved away from the technical approach that characterized... read more
Manual of Cardiac Intensive Care
Addressing the changing needs of clinicians in today’s CCU, ICU and CICU, Manual of Cardiac Intensive Care is an easy-to-use, point-of-care reference for cardiologists, intensivists, physicians, trainees, and other health... read more
Endoscopic Cardiac Surgery: Tips, Tricks and Traps
This book is unique in describing the practical considerations of endoscopic cardiac surgery. It covers this topic from basic concepts such as patient selection to imaging and outlines the different approaches to particular... read more
Fast Facts About EKGs for Nurses: The Rules of Identifying EKGs in a Nutshell
In an easy-to-use "Fast Facts" format, this pocket-sized reference provides clear and precise access to basic EKG information and EKG recognition guidelines that nurses use daily. The guide helps readers to accurately... read more
Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU
A world-renowned critical care doctor offers hope for ICU patients and their families in this timely, urgent, and compassionate narrative. Over the next ten years, 40 to 60 million people in this country will be admitted... read more
Critical Care Books Published Recently
We understand that navigating the vast array of resources in the medical field can be overwhelming and time-consuming, especially when it comes to identifying the most valuable and worthwhile ones. To make your search easier,... read more
Bronchoscopy in ICU: A Practical Guide
This practical guide focuses on Bronchoscopy in ICU. Bronchoscopy is one of the most commonly performed medical procedures, but is limited to the practice of a handful chest physicians and surgeons. The field of bronchoscopy... read more
Mechanical Ventilation in Emergency Medicine
This book discusses mechanical ventilation in emergency settings, covering the management of patients from the time of intubation until transfer to the ICU. It provides an introduction to key concepts of physiology pertinent... read more
Critical Care Sedation
This book provides a comprehensive guide to delivering analgesia and sedation to critically ill patients for professionals and caregivers being involved in the management of these patients. It discusses and explains in... read more
Oxford Textbook of Critical Care
The thoroughly revised 2nd edition of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Care is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary text covering all aspects of adult intensive care management. Uniquely the book takes a problem-orientated approach... read more
The ICU Book
A fundamental and respected resource book in critical care, The ICU Book, continues to provide the current and practical guidance that have made it the best-selling text in critical care. The text addresses both the medical... read more
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Advances in Diagnostic Tools and Disease Management
Divided into thirteen chapters, this book provides a wealth of research-oriented findings and practical guidance, ranging from the definition, epidemiology and pathophysiology, to the diagnosis and management of the disease.... read more
Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia in the Intensive Care Setting
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a serious iatrogenic complication of heparin treatments. The diagnosis of HIT is difficult in the intensive care setting because thrombocytopenia is a frequent and multifactorial... read more
Mechanical Ventilation from Pathophysiology to Clinical Evidence
This new book aims to give a comprehensive overview of the current challenges and solution posed to the health care professionals who need to use mechanical ventilation to treat their patients. Mechanical ventilation is... read more
