This handbook is a guide to best practice in interventions commonly encountered in the ICU. It is clinically orientated providing step-by-step explanations and illustrations of most invasive procedures, check lists to make sure the indication is right, checklists to ensure appropriate assessment once the procedure has been carried out.

The information is easily accessible providing practical advice and essential background for every member of the multi-disciplinary team caring for critically ill patients.

It will serve the senior consultant who has not performed a procedure for some time as well as the junior doctor in need of an aide memoire.

At often critical times, ICU staff require immediate access to information regarding the management of patients in terms of procedures, drugs or any other aspect of treatment.

Written by experts in the field of ICU, Bedside Procedures in the ICU facilitates rapid acquiring of clinical knowledge in a concise and didactic format.

Focusing on the most commonly performed procedures in the Intensive Care Unit, this book examines 20 procedures all the way from indication to the management of possible complications.

This easy to follow guide provides practical advice and essential background for every member of the multi-disciplinary team caring for critically ill patients, from the senior practitioner who has not performed a procedure for some time, to the junior doctor in need of step by step guidance.

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