Tag: education
Sedation Practices and Characteristics of Ventilated Patients
Patients on mechanical ventilator experience anxiety and physiological stress. Sedating them can help those patients to cope up with ET tube, to bear all the interventions, for accessing adequate oxygenation and above... read more
Diaphragm Ultrasonography in ICU: Why, How, and When To Use It?
An overview of the principles and current applications of diaphragm ultrasound and innovative ultrasound-based techniques. In the ICU, ultrasound is starting to be acknowledged as a useful tool for studying the diaphragm.... read more
Point of Care Ultrasound
Compact, hand-carried ultrasound devices are revolutionizing how healthcare providers practice medicine in nearly every specialty. The 2nd Edition of this award-winning text features all-new chapters, a greatly expanded... read more
Delirium and long term cognition in critically ill patients
Delirium, a form of acute brain dysfunction, is very common in the critically ill adult patient population. Although its pathophysiology is poorly understood, multiple factors associated with delirium have been identified,... read more
Do team and task performance improve after training situation awareness?
This intervention study shows that a 2-h education in situation awareness improved parts of team performance in an acute care situation. Team leadership and task management improved in the intervention group, which may indicate... read more
Case Files Critical Care (LANGE Case Files)
Experience with clinical cases is key to mastering the art and science of medicine and ultimately to providing patients with competent clinical care. Case Files: Critical Care provides 42 true-to-life cases that illustrate... read more
Precision Medicine in ARDS
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a devastating critical illness that can be triggered by a wide range of insults and remains associated with a high mortality of around 40%. The search for targeted treatment for... read more
The Practice and Principles of Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
As demonstrated in the first book, the management of patients with profound respiratory failure or cardiogenic shock has evolved significantly over the years with advances in diagnostic and therapeutic options. While the... read more
Guidance on COVID-19 Clinical Care and Treatment by Specialty
We are providing these links as part of our support to members seeking specialty advice for specific medical conditions, particularly those outside their own specialty. The situation is a fast-evolving one, and while we will... read more
Promoting Evidence-Based Practice in ARDS
There is a dearth of literature addressing interventions to improve implementation of evidence-based practices in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Existing interventions to improve clinician knowledge and facilitate... read more
Assess the Intensity of Inspiratory Efforts Using CVP Waveforms
Real case: You are passing by the room of an awake mechanically ventilated patient with advanced IPF. Peeking in from outside the room, the following CVP waveform catches your attention. In a recent post, we discussed... read more
Transesophageal Echocardiography Training of Emergency Physicians Through an E-Learning System
A transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) training course resulted in a 50% increase in surveyed participants feeling comfortable using TEE in cardiac arrest and a 40% increase in participants scoring ≥80% on a test of knowledge. We... read more
Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Modeling and Simulation
This is a second edition to the original published by Springer in 2006. The comprehensive volume takes a textbook approach systematically developing the field by starting from linear models and then moving up to generalized... read more
Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics: Concepts and Applications
Updated with the latest clinical advances, Rowland and Tozer’s Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics, Fifth Edition , explains the relationship between drug administration and drug response, taking a conceptual... read more
Peripheral Arteriovenous Malformations: Classification and Endovascular Treatment
In this review we cover the classification and endovascular management of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). We begin by viewing AVMs in relation to the broader class of congenital vascular malformations and subsequently... read more
Trauma: My Life as an Emergency Surgeon
TRAUMA is Dr. Cole's harrowing account of his life spent in the ER and on the battlegrounds, fighting to save lives. In addition to his gripping stories of treating victims of gunshot wounds, stabbings, attempted suicides,... read more
Operative Techniques and Recent Advances in Acute Care and Emergency Surgery
The aim of this book is to identify and shed new light on the main surgical practices involved in acute care and trauma surgery. Adopting an evidence-based approach, a multidisciplinary team of surgeons and intensivists... read more
Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice
Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice: Model and Guidelines has proven to be one of the most foundational books on EBP in nursing. This fully revised third edition builds on the strength of the first two editions... read more
Mayo Clinic Critical and Neurocritical Care Board Review
Mayo Clinic Critical and Neurocritical Care Board Review is an all-inclusive review of the pathophysiology and care of the neurocritically ill and critically ill patient. The book reviews the core major critical care... read more
Traumatic and Ischemic Injury: Methods and Protocols
This volume focuses on procedures for the development and application of several research animal models and in vitro methods that allow researchers to gain insight into the underlying cellular, biochemical, and physiological... read more
Common Problems in the ICU
A concise learning tool designed for residents, nurses, and other ICU professionals, Textbook of Critical Care: Common Problems in the ICU highlights the most common conditions encountered in the ICU – all in a convenient... read more
Left Septal Fascicular Block
This book provides clinical and electrovectorcardiographic evidence of the existence of left septal fascicular blocks and demonstrates the clinical importance of these blocks in the clinical scenario of acute coronary syndrome.... read more
