Hemodynamics in the Echocardiography Laboratory

Hemodynamics in the Echocardiography Laboratory

The book provides a practically focused review of the latest techniques used for hemodynamic assessment in the echocardiography laboratory. It features a methodical case-based approach covering how to measure hemodynamic... read more

Sepsis Management in Resource-limited Settings

Sepsis Management in Resource-limited Settings

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. It constitutes a unique source of knowledge and guidance for all healthcare workers who care for patients with sepsis and septic shock in resource-limited settings. More... read more

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Unlimited Reading. Unlimited Listening. Any Device. We're excited to offer 30 days of unlimited reading for free. Enjoy unlimited access to over 1 million books. Kindle Unlimited 6, 12 and 24-month membership plans. Explore... read more

The Intensivist’s Challenge: Aging and Career Growth in a High-Stress Medical Specialty

The Intensivist’s Challenge: Aging and Career Growth in a High-Stress Medical Specialty

This book brings together personal narratives from critical care medicine specialists around the world. Most of these physicians started in critical care at or before the exponential increase in technological modalities to... read more

Critical Care and Hospitalist Medicine Made Ridiculously Simple

Critical Care and Hospitalist Medicine Made Ridiculously Simple

A fundamental and thorough guide to the treatment of hospitalized patients in critical care situations, "Critical Care and Hospitalist Medicine Made Ridiculously Simple" provides both introductory information as well as a... read more

The Ethics of Allocation

The Ethics of Allocation

One of the greatest challenges in health care - and in generations - is upon us COVID-19 continues to detrimentally affect every aspect of our healthcare system. Clinicians have been faced with grim life-and-death decisions... read more

Crisis Management in Anesthesiology

Crisis Management in Anesthesiology

The fully updated Crisis Management in Anesthesiology continues to provide updated insights on the latest theories, principles, and practices in anesthesiology. From anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists to emergency physicians... read more

Clinical Utility and Technique for Lung Ultrasound in COVID-19 Cases

Clinical Utility and Technique for Lung Ultrasound in COVID-19 Cases

Since the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan in December 2019 and its subsequent evolution to a pandemic in March 2020, there has been growing interest in the utility of lung ultrasound in the workup and management... read more

Holding Intubated Infants Well Tolerated and Safe

Holding Intubated Infants Well Tolerated and Safe

Critically ill infants who are old enough to move on their own but too young to cooperate with care instructions have been among the last to benefit from patient mobility initiatives. Results from a holding intervention... read more

Association Between Hospital Staffing Models and Failure to Rescue

Association Between Hospital Staffing Models and Failure to Rescue

Low failure to rescue (FTR) hospitals had significantly more staffing resources than high FTR hospitals. Although hiring additional staff may be beneficial, there remain significant financial limitations for many hospitals... read more

Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine

Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine

Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine is the only book that uses a practical, question-and-answer approach to address evidence-based decision making in palliative medicine. Dr. Nathan E. Goldstein and Dr. R.... read more

Physical Rehabilitation in the ICU

Physical Rehabilitation in the ICU

Survivors of critical illness frequently experience poor physical outcomes, including persistent impairments in muscle strength, exercise capacity and physical function. In this article, we review these impairments and... read more

Fragility Index Calculator

Fragility Index Calculator

The fragility index is a measure of the robustness (or fragility) of the results of a clinical trial. The fragility index is a number indicating how many patients would be required to convert a trial from being statistically... read more

Recognizing Acute Delirium as Part of Your Routine

Recognizing Acute Delirium as Part of Your Routine

The screening tool (RADAR) proved to be efficient, reliable, sensitive and very well accepted by nursing staff. Consequently, it becomes an appropriate new option for delirium screening among older adults, with or without... read more