Timothy M. Craft, Jerry Nolan, M. J. A. Parr

Key Topics in Critical Care, Second Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Critical care is now a mandatory part of training for surgeons and physicians as well as anaesthetists. It also forms a comprehensive part of postgraduate medical exams such as FRCA and FRCS. This new second edition of Key Topics in Critical Care has been revised and updated and is written to provide a broad base in the major areas of critical care so that the reader can rapidly acquire an understanding of the principles and practice that apply to this area of modern clinical medicine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9781859962299
• ISBN-10: 1859962297
• Artikelnr.: 13211471

Autorenporträt

Craft, T. M.; Parr, M. J. A.; Nolan, Jerry P.

Inhaltsangabe

Admission and Discharge Criteria. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
Adrenal Disease. AIDS. Analgesia in Critical Care: Basic. Analgesia in
Critical Care: Advanced. Anaphylaxis. Arterial Blood Gases: Acid-base
Physiology. Arterial Blood Gases: Analysis. Arterial Cannulation. Asthma.
Blood and Blood Products. Blood Coagulation. Blood Transfusion and
Complications. Brain Death and Organ Donation. Burns. Calcium, Magnesium
and Phosphate. Cancer Patients and Critical Care. Cardiac Arrhythmias.
Cardiac Chest Pain (Acute Coronary Syndrome). Cardiac Failure. Cardiac
Output: Measurement. Cardiac Pacing. Cardiac Valve Disease. Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation. Central Venous Pressure. Chest Tube Thoracostomy. Chronic
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Coma. Critical Illness Polyneuromyopathy.
Death Certification. Diabetes Mellitus. Drug Overdose. End-of-life Care.
Endocarditis. Epiglottis. Fibreoptic Bronchoscopy. Fluid Replacement
Therapy. Guillain-Barré Syndrome. Head Injury. Hyperthermia. Hypothermia.
Infection Control. Infection Acquired in Critical Care (Nosocomial).
Inotropes and Vasopressors. Liver Dysfunction. Medical Emergency Team
(Outreach Critical Care). Meningitis. Meningococcal Sepsis. Myasthenia
Gravis. Nutrition. Obstetric Emergencies: Major Haemorrhage. Obstetric
Emergencies: Medical. Pancreatitis. Pneumonia: Community Acquired.
Pneumonia: Hospital Acquired. Post Resuscitation Care. Potassium.
Psychological Aspects of Critical Care. Pulmonary Aspiration. Renal
Failure: Rescue Therapy. Renal Failure: Acute. Renal Replacement Therapy.
Respiratory Support: Non-invasive Techniques. Respiratory Support:
Invasive. Scoring Systems. Sedation. Sickle Cell Disease. SIRS, Sepsis and
Multiple Organ Failure. Sodium. Spinal Injuries. Status Epilepticus. Stress
Ulceration. Stroke. Subarachnoid Haemorrhage. Thyroid Emergencies.
Tracheostomy. Transfer of the Critically Ill. Trauma: Anaesthesia and
Critical Care. Trauma: Primary Survey. Trauma: Secondary Survey. Venous
Thromboembo