Tag: education
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
Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation: Theory, Equipment, and Clinical Applications
The new edition presents updates regarding new clinical applications of noninvasive mechanical ventilation and discusses recent technical advances in this field. The opening sections are devoted to theory, equipment, with... 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
MACE in Acute Exacerbation of COPD – Troponin I – A Dramatic Predictor
The burden of COPD is rising due to continued exposure to risk factors that trigger lung inflammation and repeated secondary infections thereby contributing to the third leading cause of death globally. More COPD deaths... read more
Clinical Cases in Critical Care
In Clinical Cases in Critical Care, the authors explore core clinical topics and basic sciences in a practical and realistic way, and include comprehensive discussions focusing on critically unwell patients with a variety... read more
Practical Trends in Anesthesia and Intensive Care 2020-2021
This book offers an essential guide to managing the most-debated hot topics of practical interest in anesthesia and intensive care. Part I reviews the state of the art in issues concerning both intensive care medicine... read more
Hospital Acquired Infections, Multidrug Resistant (MDR) Bacteria, Alternative Approaches to Antibiotic Therapy
Bacterial resistance to known and currently used antibiotics represents a growing issue worldwide. It poses a major problem in the treatment of infectious diseases in general and hospital-acquired infections in particular.... read more
Targeted Immunomodulation: A Primer for Intensivists
Targeted immunomodulation is a topic that gained wide interest from translational researchers in the past decades, yet immunomodulatory drugs were not frequently administered to intensive care patients. The coronavirus... read more
The High-risk Surgical Patient
It is well known that certain diseases and patient conditions are associated with increased perioperative risk. The aim of this book is to define and identify the clinical factors that warrant a broader and more detailed... read more
