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Critical care medicine at a glance

Critical Care Medicine at a Glance is an accessible introduction and revision text for junior clinicians. Fully revised and updated to reflect changes to the content and assessment methods used by medical schools and postgraduate training programmes, this at a Glance provides a user-friendly overvie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leach, Richard M. (Haematologist) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2014
Edition:3rd edition
Series:At a glance series (Oxford, England)
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Critical care medicine > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Critical Care > methods > Handbooks
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Table of Contents:
  • Management of the critically ill patient
  • Monitoring in critical care medicine
  • Oxygen transport
  • Shock
  • Circulatory support: fluid and inotropes
  • Oxygenation failure and oxygen therapy
  • Airways management
  • Non-invasive ventilation
  • Endotracheal intubation
  • Mechanical ventilation
  • Respiratory management, weaning and tracheostomy
  • Arterial blood gases and acid-base balance
  • Sedation, analgesia and paralysis
  • Enteral and parenteral nutrition
  • Hypothermia and hyperthermia
  • Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and sepsis
  • End of life issues
  • Acute coronary syndromes
  • Arrhythmias
  • Heart failure and pulmonary oedema
  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  • Cardiac emergencies
  • Pneumonia
  • Asthma
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Acute respiratory distress syndrome
  • Deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism
  • Pneumothorax and air leaks
  • Respiratory emergencies
  • Renal and metabolic
  • Acute renal failure; pathophysiology and clinical aspects
  • Acute renal failure; management and renal replacement therapy
  • Diabetic emergencies
  • Endocrine emergencies
  • Gastrointestinal
  • Gastrointestinal haemorrhage
  • Acute liver failure
  • Acute pancreatitis
  • Altered mental state, coma and status epilepticus
  • Neurological emergencies: stroke
  • Neurological emergencies: infective
  • Neuromuscular conditions
  • Other systems
  • Transfusion and coagulation disorders
  • Drug overdose and poisoning
  • The immune compromised patient
  • Surgical
  • Trauma
  • Head injury
  • Chest trauma
  • Acute abdominal emergencies
  • Obstetric emergencies
  • Burns, toxic inhalation and electrical injuries

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