Product Description: NEW EDITION!! The Tarascon Internal Medicine & Critical Care Pocketbook is designed as the ultimate portable reference for the busy Internal Medicine or ICU practitioner. This concise, organized pocket guide is packed with essential lists, figures, tables and algorithms providing instant remindersof hard-to-remember yet vitally important clinical information. An extensive pharmacology section gives fingertip access to critical drug prescribing information. The newly revised 4th edition contains dozens of new topics and drug listings as well as timely updates for most of the content and references. The Tarascon Internal Medicine & Critical Care Pocketbook is meticulously referenced and provides expert commentary on current academic controversies within the field. You will wonder how you ever practiced medicine without it!
This best-selling resource provides a general overview and basic information for all adult intensive care units. The material is presented in a brief and quick-access format which allows for topic and exam review. It provides enough detailed and specific information to address most all questions and problems that arise in the ICU. Emphasis on fundamental principles in the text should prove useful for patient care outside the ICU as well. New chapters in this edition include hyperthermia and hypothermia syndromes; infection control in the ICU; and severe airflow obstruction. Sections have been reorganized and consolidated when appropriate to reinforce concepts. Purchase of The ICU Book, Third Edition gives you free access to a Website featuring links from references to PubMed, updated regularly; and a directory of Websites handpicked by Dr. Marino.
Bls for Healthcare Providers from: American Heart Association 34 used from $7.94 28 Thirdparty New from $9.95 Edition: Pap/Com Media: Paperback EAN: 9780874934618 ISBN: 0874934613 Number Of Pages: 80 Publication Date: 2006-02-28 Publisher: American Heart Association
Completely updated for its Third Edition, this practical reference is a comprehensive guide to the anesthetic and perioperative management of patients during all procedures performed by general and subspecialist surgeons. The book explains each procedure from both the surgeon's and the anesthesiologist's perspective, presents details on anesthetic technique, and guides the anesthesiologist and surgeon through the decisions that must be made before, during, and after surgery. Emphasis is on factors that impact the anesthesiologist, including patient positioning, duration of surgery, and complications. The Third Edition covers 40 new and variant surgical procedures. New chapters include office-based surgery and invasive procedures in anesthesia.
Relied on for over 20 years by resident and practicing anesthesiologists and CRNAs, this best-selling pocket reference is now in its Seventh Edition. In easy-to-scan outline format, it provides current, comprehensive, concise, consistent, and clinically relevant guidelines for anesthesia procedures throughout the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative periods and in the ICU. The book has been written, reviewed, updated, and field-tested by the internationally recognized anesthesia department of the Massachusetts General Hospital. This edition includes new information on quality assessment, patient safety, the electronic medical record, and new techniques and medications. A new design makes information easier to access. An alphabetical drug appendix is also included. A PDA version of this edition will also be available.
Quick Reference to Critical Care by: Nancy H Diepenbrock 10 used from $28.98 25 Thirdparty New from $28.95 Edition: 3 Media: Paperback EAN: 9780781777148 ISBN: 0781777143 Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: 2007-04-01 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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This pocket-sized book is a quick-reference guide to procedures, treatments, and stabilization techniques for disorders, injuries, and patient situations commonly seen in the critical care setting. The first section is organized by body system, with problems of each system alphabetized. The second section contains essential information on drugs, dosing, conversions, calculations, compatibilities, laboratory tests, and more. Cross-references with page numbers enable users to find the information they need quickly, without searching the index. This edition is thoroughly updated and includes a new chapter on imaging techniques.
Product Description: As the required textbook for NAEMT's worldwide prehospital trauma life support courses, Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) is the definitive resource for learning basic and advanced prehospital trauma skills and concepts. Now revised and expanded to cover all aspects of prehospital trauma with new chapters on burns, wilderness trauma, tactical considerations, weapons of mass destruction, triage and disaster management, and environmental trauma the 6th edition is the ultimate trauma text for any prehospital care provider! The 6th edition is also ideal for use as the trauma component of an EMT or paramedic course or as a general reference tool on trauma assessment and management. The Instructor's Resource Manual with CD-ROM is available for certified PHTLS instructors ONLY. It can be ordered through MosbyJems, but customers must first obtain an access code from the National PHTLS office at 1-800-94-PHTLS or 1-601-924-7744. Individuals may also call the above numbers for information on How to Become a PHTLS Instructor.
Provides CEUs for First Responders, EMTs, paramedics, nurses, & physicians; proceeds from the course go to the NAEMT and are used to support the profession; it improves the quality of care (research is available); can be incorporated into initial training or as a stand-alone continuing education course; promotes critical thinking as the foundation for providing quality care.
PHTLS is a continuing education program authored and administered by the PHTLS division of the National Association of EMTs (NAEMT) in conjunction with the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons.
A consistent approach for every body region makes the book easy to follow and includes content on anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, and assessment and management.
Airway, Thoracic, and Spinal Skills are presented in a heavily illustrated, step-by-step format.
Scenarios and Scenarios Solutions are provided for every chapter to promote critical thinking and allow "real-world" application of the chapter.
More information on kinematics than any similar book on the market.
More comprehensive, covering ALL aspects of prehospital trauma
More thoroughly referenced than ever with the most accurate, up-to-date, evidence-based information available
Information on Prolonged/Extended Transport added to all applicable chapters
Chapter on Burns provides an in-depth view of how to treat burn trauma patients.
A companion DVD-ROM (new format) shows full-screen video clips of all airway and spinal skills used in PHTLS. Skills are even subtitled in six languages! It also contains information - such as the Glasgow Coma Scale, Revised Trauma Score, Rule of Nines, Parkland Formula, and Pediatric Vital Signs - to download to your PDA.
Chapter on Triage and Disaster Management addresses the multiple casualty incident in detail, whether the incident is as small as 3-4 people to a disaster involving hundreds.
Chapter on Weapons of Mass Destruction explains how to correctly react at the scene of an incident involving biological, nuclear, incendiary, chemical, or explosive agents.
Chapter on Civilian Tactical EMS describes how prehospital providers can support police operations, promote crime scene awareness, and apply PHTLS concepts to civilian tactical settings.
Chapter on Wilderness Trauma Care describes treatment of trauma patients in wilderness situations, including information on extended transport times.
Two Environmental Trauma chapters offer more information on a wide variety of environmental emergency topics.
8 laminated quick reference cards with helpful information such as the Glasgow Coma Scale, spinal immobilization, and morethey can go anywhere for easy quick-reference.
A Nurse's Story by: Tilda Shalof 10 used from $7.77 18 Thirdparty New from $7.99 Edition: 1 Media: Paperback EAN: 9780771080876 ISBN: 0771080875 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: 2005-02-22 Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Product Description: The team of nurses that Tilda Shalof found herself working with in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a big-city hospital was known as “Laura’s Line.” They were a bit wild: smart, funny, disrespectful of authority, but also caring and incredibly committed to their jobs. Laura set the tone with her quick remarks. Frances, from Newfoundland, was famous for her improvised recipes. Justine, the union rep, wore t-shirts emblazoned with defiant slogans, like “Nurses Care But It’s Not in the Budget.” Shalof was the one who had been to university. The others accused her of being “sooo sensitive.”
They depended upon one another. Working in the ICU was both emotionally grueling and physically exhausting. Many patients, quite simply, were dying, and the staff strove mightily to prolong their lives. With their skill, dedication, and the resources of modern science, they sometimes were almost too successful. Doctors and nurses alike wondered if what they did for terminally-ill patients was not, in some cases, too extreme. A number of patients were admitted when it was too late even for heroic measures. A boy struck down by a cerebral aneurysm in the middle of a little-league hockey game. A woman rescued – too late – from a burning house. It all took its toll on the staff.
And yet, on good days, they thrived on what they did. Shalof describes a colleague who is managing a “crashing” patient: “I looked at her. Nicky was flushed with excitement. She was doing five different things at the same time, planning ahead for another five. She was totally focused, in her element, in control, completely at home with the chaos. There was a huge smile on her face. Nurses like to fix things. If they can.”
Shalof, a veteran ICU nurse, reveals what it is really like to work behind the closed hospital curtains. The drama, the sardonic humour, the grinding workload, the cheerful camaraderie, the big issues and the small, all are brought vividly to life in this remarkable book.
ICU/CCU Facts Made Incredibly Quick! (Incredibly Easy! Series) from: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2 used from $21.55 30 Thirdparty New from $18.00 Edition: Spi Media: Spiral-bound EAN: 9781582555416 ISBN: 1582555419 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: 2006-05-01 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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ICU/CCU Facts Made Incredibly Quick! is the point-of-care reference every nurse in the intensive care/critical care unit needs. This pocket-sized book of clinical tools provides instant access to essential information ICU/CCU nurses need quickly. The wipeable page surface allows nurses to make notes and remove them easily. Coverage includes significant abnormal assessment findings, complications of diseases and procedures, IV infusion, ACLS medication review, ACLS algorithms, BLS review, ECG interpretation, hemodynamic monitoring, evaluating cardiac output, managing multiple trauma, and dealing with death. Dozens of illustrations and charts are included. Tabs or distinctive colors identify each section.
Prepared by residents and faculty at the Washington University School of Medicine, this pocket manual contains easy-to-read algorithms for the management of more than 80 medical and surgical problems arising in the intensive care unit. Chapters focus on specific problems and the algorithms provide straightforward approaches to the management of these issues. Coverage includes a section on procedures commonly performed in the intensive care unit. Appendices include common equations in the ICU, drug-drug interactions, and common drug dosages and side effects.
Now in its updated Fourth Edition, this popular and practical text presents all the information the clinician needs to read EKGs efficiently and accurately. It is an ideal reference for medical students in ICM courses, house officers, or anyone directly involved in patient care, whether student, teacher, or practitioner. This edition includes new information on pacemakers, ischemic heart disease, and myocardial infarction treatment. The book features more than 200 facsimiles of EKG strips and numerous case studies and clinical examples. Also included is a pocket-sized review section that can be removed from the book and added to a pocket notebook.
Critical Care Medicine 07 by: Matthew, M.D. Brenner 3 used from $14.88 19 Thirdparty New from $13.94 Edition: 1 Media: Paperback EAN: 9781929622726 ISBN: 1929622724 Number Of Pages: 168 Publication Date: 2006-04-15 Publisher: Current Clinical Strategies Pub
Product Description: Geared specifically to primary care practitioners, house officers, and medical students, this colorfully illustrated pocket book is a practical quick-reference guide to the diagnosis and treatment of common skin problems. The book is organized by clinical feature and written in terms that are accessible to non-dermatologists. 118 full-color illustrations depict the key distinguishing features of the diseases. ICD-9 codes are included. This Second Edition includes the latest therapies, plus many new photographs.
Book Description: Heal Your Pain Now with Expressive Writing
What do diarists and journal writers know that can help anyone dealing with a traumatic or emotionally challenging situation recover from pain and regain their peace of mind?
They know that the act of putting thoughts and feelings on paper is, itself, a powerful exercise that makes them feel heard and acknowledged—a way of regaining perspective and control over the events that move through their lives.
In this book, the preeminent psychologist and researcher in the growing field of expressive emotions therapy, or EET, takes readers through a series of guided writing exercises that help them explore their feelings about difficult experiences. Each chapter begins with an introduction that explains how to proceed with the journal exercise and what it is structured to help accomplish. Readers are encouraged to do the exercise in the journal itself—each chapter provides plenty of ruled space—so that they can frequently refer to their own work and gain insight and clarity from their own words. The text offers encouragement and gentle advice for breaking through those inevitable moments when mental block make writing impossible; stream-of-consciousness and automatic writing clears away the obstacle and inspires the journal writer to even deeper levels of self-expression. The text stresses throughout the power for understanding and coping with difficult times that lies in storytelling, whether through fiction, dance, or art. In all, the exercises will leave readers with a strong sense of their value in the world and the ability to accept that which is sometimes hard to accept—that life can be good even when it is sometimes bad.
Product Description: AACN Procedure Manual for Critical Care offers comprehensive coverage of procedures unique to the critical care environment. This edition is thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded to reflect the current state of critical care nursing practice. Information is presented in a highly illustrated step-by-step format with supporting rationales for each step of every procedure. This resource also emphasizes evidence-based practice and provides complete coverage of the latest clinical studies.
Each procedure is organized in a consistent, step-by-step format with categories that include: prerequisite nursing knowledge, equipment, patient and family education, patient assessment and preparation, procedure, expected outcomes, unexpected outcomes, patient monitoring and care, and documentation.
Each procedure is supported by research-based data.
Advanced practice procedures are noted with a special AP icon indicating that these procedures should be done only by qualified personnel.
19 new procedures discuss topics such as combitube insertion and removal, transesophageal echocardiography, and patient controlled analgesia.
A new Quick Tips feature located in the Special Considerations column for quick reference highlights key words and key concepts for each procedure.
A new web-enhanced feature at the beginning and end of each procedure directs readers to online supplement materials such as additional art and photographs.
Web links connect users to hundreds of continually updated web sites that contain information relevant to critical care nursing practice.
200 new line drawings clearly illustrate important techniques and bring key procedures to life.
Product Description: The official publication of the Air & Surface Transport Nurses Association, this comprehensive and timely text is the standard reference for flight nurses and other health professionals involved in medical transportation. Its new title reflects the role and presence of not only flight or air nurses, but also that of surface transport nurses. The contemporary, collaborative focus in each unit emphasizes the role of all team members. Each clinical chapter consistently covers epidemiology, anatomy and physiology and/or pathophysiology, and specific conditions with case studies and notes for assessment and treatment
Comprehensive discussions are presented for diseases or injuries commonly encountered in flight and ground nursing including pathophysiology, assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Detailed coverage of management issues is offered including scene management, communication, safety, disaster management/triage, quality management, and marketing/public relations.
Competencies for each clinical chapter identify key components to providing effective patient care.
Case studies are presented at the end of each clinical chapter to help readers apply the information presented.
Content emphasizes practical application to prepare the reader for practice.
A discussion of the role of air and ground nurses as members of a team is provided, and the roles of the various team members are differentiated so they can more effectively collaborate in patient care and transport.
Each section stresses the collaborative focus that emphasizes the role of all team members.
Content meets the educational and reference needs of readers dedicated to expert care delivery in transport, including paramedics, physicians, respiratory therapists, pilots, mechanics, and communication specialists.
A new unit on the History and Current Role of Ground and Air Transport Nurses includes chapters on the History of Patient Transport (Chapter 1), Preparation for Practice (Chapter 2), Certification (Chapter 3), Members of the Transport Team (Chapter 4), and Research and Quality Management (Chapter 5).
The new unit on Patient Care Issues includes three new chapters that cover legal, ethical, and family issues to provide the reader with a better understanding of the different situations they might encounter in the field.
The Management unit features a new chapter on Accreditation for Air and Ground Medical Transport.
The Selected Patient Populations unit conveniently groups discussions of pregnant, neonatal, and pediatric patients.
A new appendix describes international patient transport and the goals of other transport associations.
Product Description: Principles and Practice of Mechanical Ventilation, Second Edition, features:
Up-to-the minute, rigorous coverage that addresses every important scientific, clinical and technical aspect of the field
70 well-organized chapters encompassing the full scope of mechanical ventilation, including the physical basis of mechanical ventilation; conventional, alternative, noninvasive, and unconventional methods of ventilator support; complications and airway management; ethics and economics
24 new chapters on current issues in mechanical ventilation: Closed loop Ventilation, Inhales Antibiotic Therapy, Sleep and Speech in the Ventilated Patient, Mechanical Ventilation in ARDS, Ventilation Outside the ICU, and more
Highly relevant new chapters on pharmacological and adjuvant therapy
Greater use of tables and lists that conveniently summarize key information and solidify chapter concepts
Product Description: This best-selling volume in The Secrets Series® is back in an exciting, fully updated 4th Edition! You'll find all of the features you rely on the Secrets forsuch as a question-and-answer format · bulleted lists · mnemonics · "Key Points" boxes · and tips from the authors.
Equips you with the evidence-based guidance you need to provide optima care for the critically ill.
Expedites reference and review with a question-and-answer format, bulleted lists, mnemonics, and practical tips from the authors.
Features a two-color page layout, "Key Points" boxes, and lists of useful web sites to enhance your reference power.
Presents a chapter containing "Top Secrets", providing you with an overview of essential material for last-minute study or self-assessment
Provides coverage of the principles of gas and fluid flow · pulmonary mechanics · and electronic circuitry.
Discusses protocols and guidelines.
Offers effective solutions to patients' medical and ethical problems from a wide range of specialists such as pulmonologists · surgeons · anesthesiologists · psychiatrists · pharmacists · and infectious disease experts.
Thoroughly updated for its Sixth Edition, this classic reference remains an unsurpassed source of definitive, practical guidance on adult patient care in the ICU. It provides encyclopedic, multidisciplinary coverage of both medical and surgical intensive care and includes a "how-to" atlas of procedures and a new section on noninvasive monitoring. Each Sixth Edition chapter, for the first time, identifies Advances in Management based on randomized controlled clinical trials. The cardiology section has been completely rewritten to reflect advances in management of acute coronary syndromes. Also included are extensive updates on management of COPD, diabetes, oncologic emergencies, and overdoses and poisonings. A companion Website will provide instant access to the complete and fully searchable online text.
Product Description: This is a practical and concise introduction to bedside emergency ultrasound. It covers the full spectrum of conditions diagnosed via this modality, both for guiding invasive procedures and for diagnosis in critical-care settings. It introduces the major applications for emergency ultrasound by using focused diagnostic questions and teaching the image acquisition skills needed to answer these questions. Images of positive and negative findings for each application (FAST, ECHO, etc.) are presented, as well as scanning tips for improved image quality. Each section contains a review of the literature supporting each application.
Relied on for 20 years by resident and practicing anesthesiologists and CRNAs, this best-selling pocket reference is now in its Sixth Edition. In easy-to-scan outline format, it provides current, comprehensive, concise, consistent, and clinically relevant guidelines for anesthesia procedures throughout the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative periods. Each chapter is written by a Massachusetts General Hospital resident with a faculty mentor, and the entire book has been reviewed, updated, and field-tested by the anesthesia staff. This edition includes new information on muscle relaxants, opioids, minimally invasive abdominal surgery, pediatrics, end-of-life issues, and latex allergies, plus a comprehensive, alphabetical drug appendix.
Product Description: This evidence-based text is designed to help the undergraduate nursing student in a critical care rotation and for nurses new to critical care. Each clinical chapter has application to the AACN Synergy Model, identifying and matching patient characteristics and nurse competencies, leading to optimal patient outcomes. In addition to the core critical care nursing content, this unique text covers the following topics: Organ donation (including care of the donor as well as the organ recipient) Care of the postanesthesia patient Complementary therapies Common drug overdoses and poisonings Palliative care and death and dying in the ICU Family-focused care The book features case studies, critical thinking questions, multiple choice NCLEX-style review questions, evidence-based online resources, and student activities.
Product Description: Although near-miss situations are relatively rare in anesthesiology, it is essential to know how to respond if the situation arises. This collection of actual cases, compiled from the author’s 30+ years practice in major metropolitan hospitals in the US, Sweden and South Africa, is an excellent review of potential problems and solutions all anesthesiologists should be familiar with. The cases are succinct, with the problem and a solution described, then concluded by a retrospective analysis that examines whether the solution used was actually the best (or only) choice, or if other solutions might provide equally satisfactory outcomes. Also included in the analyses are tips to help avoid the problem altogether, when possible. This book is an excellent review for the ABA oral exam and is an easy and practical way to prepare for the unexpected in the daily practice of clinical anesthesia.
Ideally suited for students in critical care rotations and residents, this concise, practical handbook presents the essentials of medical and surgical critical care in an easy-to-read format. The authors succinctly explain the pathophysiology underlying clinical disorders and the key principles of diagnosis and patient management, emphasizing cost-effective approaches. The Third Edition features greatly expanded coverage of surgical critical care and new information on echocardiography, hemodynamics, circulatory support, hazards of excessive fluid resuscitation, lasix drips, respiratory monitoring, post-extubation care, weaning from ventilators, sedation, use of opiates, new drugs, emergency room interventions for myocardial infarction, stroke management, infectious disease issues, and sepsis.
Critical Care Transport Field Guide by: UMBC 7 used from $15.15 23 Thirdparty New from $15.08 Edition: 1st Media: Spiral-bound EAN: 9780763715809 ISBN: 0763715808 Number Of Pages: 64 Publication Date: 2001-12 Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
Product Description: This guide is designed with the special needs of field practitioners in mind. This useful, quick reference guide helps speed recognition of lab values, 12 lead ECG interpretation, fibrinolytics agents, hemodynamic monmitoring, IABP's, rapid sequence intubation, chest tubes, and therapeutic medications and toxology for the critial care transport provider.
Product Description: Why waste time guessing at what you need to know for the CCRN exam? Maximize your exam preparation time with this quick-hit question and answer review. The unique question and single-answer format eliminates the guesswork associated with traditional multiple-choice Q&A reviews and reinforces only the correct answers you'll need to know on exam day. Emphasis is placed on distilling key facts and clinical pearls essential for exam successs. Great for certification and re-certification, this high-yield review for the CCRN exam is the perfect compliment to larger tests for intense, streamlined review in the days and weeks before your exam.
Product Description: This practical, hands-on training book offers Paramedics and advanced providers a complete reference covering all skills necessary for rapid assessment, resuscitation, stabilization, and transportation of the trauma patient.
For more than 25 years, ITLS has been at the forefront of trauma education at all levels of prehospital care worldwide. This latest edition continues the tradition of excellence by refining and updating the rapid assessment, resuscitation, stabilization, and transport of the trauma patient. This expanded edition conforms to the most recent AHA guidelines for artificial ventilation and CPR. New key features include: new flow sheets, new and expanded appendices, including Tactical EMS, updated photo and art program through out, and a CD-ROM with review questions, games, animations, and much more! For advanced providers, EMS workers, and nurses, MDs, and others in the trauma care field. Its comprehensive appendices make this book an excellent handy reference.
Product Description: This handy reference provides essential information for physical therapists providing patient care in the hospital setting. This is the only book written by physical therapists that addresses all of the areas in the complex acute care environment.
Rogers' Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care from: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 3 used from $182.69 18 Thirdparty New from $182.70 Edition: 4 Media: Hardcover EAN: 9780781782753 ISBN: 0781782759 Number Of Pages: 1886 Publication Date: 2008-01-01 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Rogers' Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care, Fourth Edition continues the tradition of this classic text--detailed discussions of the scientific principles of pediatric critical care translated into practical clinical applications. This new edition has an international roster of over 250 contributors and emphasizes areas of collaboration between critical care physicians and nurses. Other highlights of this edition include a new section on basic concepts of critical care, including genetic medicine; a new section on PICU systems, organization, and management; chapters on worldwide threats to children's health; and sections on life support technologies and invasive procedures. A companion Website will offer instant access to the fully searchable text.
Product Description: Case Studies in Critical Care Nursing contains detailed and up-to-date case studies on critical care conditions with accompanying questions and answers for applied learning of the practice of critical care nursing. The organization of the book has been changed to mirror that of Thelan's Critical Care Nursing, 4th Edition; the chapters in this 3rd edition are grouped according to body systems. This book allows the reader to hone vital skills necessary in a critical care environment, such as assessment, critical thinking, decision-making, and judgment. Additionally, this text provides an excellent resource to those practitioners who want to update themselves on current critical care practice prior to taking the CCRN examination.
Each chapter contains the case presentation, questions and answers, and references.
Each case study includes patient assessment and history of the disorder, laboratory observations and results, and pharmacological options for the patient.
Comprehensive discussion and evaluation of the critical thinking questions follow each case study.
Internet resources are included throughout the case studies to further the user's access to information on a variety of disorders.
Contains an all-inclusive glossary of key critical care abbreviations.
* Five NEW case studies have been added to this edition (33 total): Cardiac Trauma and Cardiac Tamponade; Hypertensive Crisis/Emergency; Drug Overdose; Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation; and End of Life/Organ Donation. * The critical thinking questions that follow each case study will now begin on a new page, and include space within the book for users to write in their answers, making the book more of workbook. * The trim size has been increased to 8 ½ x 11 inches to accommodate the need for additional space. * Updated real-life case studies reflect the evolving treatment modalities and current pharmacology in the critical care environment. * Each chapter contains the case presentation, Q&A's, and references. * Comprehensive discussion and evaluation of the critical thinking questions follow each case study.
This portable paperback bench manual contains the thoroughly updated atlas of procedures and techniques and the new section on noninvasive monitoring from Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine, Sixth Edition. In a user-friendly format, this extremely practical "how-to" guide provides graphically illustrated, step-by-step instructions for every diagnostic, therapeutic, and noninvasive monitoring procedure used in adult critical care. Coverage of each procedure includes indications, contraindications, equipment, anatomy, technique, complications, and ongoing care. All ICU staff as well as general practitioners can depend on this manual for immediate access to reliable, easy-to-follow instructions.
The leading reference on anesthesia during pregnancy and delivery is now in its thoroughly updated Fourth Edition. This volume provides complete information on anesthesia for vaginal delivery, cesarean section, obstetric complications, anesthetic complications, anesthesia for nonobstetric disorders during pregnancy, and management of the fetus and newborn. This edition provides expanded coverage of infectious diseases during delivery, including HIV, herpes, chorioamnionitis, labor epidural fever, and sepsis. The section on anesthetic complications includes a new chapter on the difficult airway, failed intubation, and cardiac arrest. There is a revised chapter on evaluation of the neonate and more information about CT, ultrasound, and MRI.
Management of the Patient in the Coronary Care Unit from: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 3 used from $63.75 15 Thirdparty New from $63.76 Edition: 1 Media: Paperback EAN: 9780781764391 ISBN: 0781764394 Number Of Pages: 348 Publication Date: 2007-10-01 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Designed for quick, easy use in emergency situations, this concise coronary care manual focuses on the diagnosis and management of acute cardiac conditions. The authors succinctly summarize the evidence-based strategies and successful diagnostic and therapeutic modalities used at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic. Chapters are written in outline format with short narratives to explain the diagnostic or management decisions. Bulleted lists, sidebars, figures, tables, and algorithms help readers grasp key information at a glance.
AACN Advanced Critical Care Nursing by: AACN 1 used from $92.21 3 Thirdparty New from $89.96 Edition: 1 Media: Hardcover EAN: 9781416032199 ISBN: 1416032193 Number Of Pages: 1632 Publication Date: 2008-04-24 Publisher: Saunders
Product Description: From AACN experts comes a resource dedicated to helping you oversee or care for critical care patients in any practice setting. This comprehensive critical care nursing textbook addresses serious and potentially life-threatening patient conditions with a foundation rooted in the critical thinking process: the comprehension, analysis, synthesis, and application of knowledge.
Endorsed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the largest specialty nursing organization in the United States, for the most authoritative coverage available.
Thorough discussions of each body system emphasize advanced concepts, presenting physiology in an application format that examines the clinical implications of physiological science.
Coverage of assessment focuses on interpreting abnormal findings and linking those findings to diagnosis and intervention.
Appropriate interventions are discussed from an interdisciplinary, evidence-based perspective.
Hundreds of new, full-color illustrations and design clarify important concepts and improve the book's usability.
Complex, unfolding case studies are presented in all disease chapters, accompanied by review questions with a comprehensive answer key.
Multidisciplinary Plans of Care provide at-a-glance information for common ICU conditions.
Nutrition boxes appear in each relevant chapter, offering guidelines for patient needs with specific illnesses.
Research-Based Practice Guidelines boxes and Promoting Evidence-Based Practice features appear throughout the text whenever applicable to present the latest research-supported nursing assessment and intervention practices.
Drug boxes include common classifications of critical care drugs for specific disorders, including drug, actions, dosage, and special considerations.
Applying the Technology features help you apply the latest technology to patient care.
NIC Interventions boxes list NIC intervention labels appropriate for the conditions discussed in a chapter.
Today every ICU provides rapid and automated blood gas testing twenty-four hours a day. The emphasis in this handy manual on blood gases is on interpreting readings and wisely using the information derived. The self-testing questions and glossary make it particularly useful. The Second Edition includes patient scenarios, more figures, a revised bibliography, and pertinent Internet addresses.
Written by the multidisciplinary intensive care unit staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Fourth Edition of this best-selling handbook is a practical, complete, and current guide to medical and surgical critical care. In a user-friendly outline format designed for rapid reference, this pocket-sized book presents reliable, hospital-tested protocols that reflect today's most advanced critical care practices. This edition includes new information on hemodynamic monitoring and management, respiratory monitoring, airway problems, new transfusion agents and infection control techniques, wound care, ventilator management, end-of-life issues, outcomes evaluation, and evidence-based practice. Appendices provide key information on drugs and blood laboratory values.
Product Description: Heres the most clinically oriented critical care text focusing on the adult patient. In full-color and superbly illustrated with clinical photographs, imaging studies, and management algorithms, and with a broad multidisciplinary focus, this text will help you enhance your skills at any level of training.
Stands alone as a clinically oriented comprehensive reference.
Completely updated and authorship expanded to reflect the evolution in critical care practice.
In color for the first time, with new color schematics and treatment algorithms for greater ease of reference.
Utilizes key points lists at the end of chapter, to help you make decisions rapidly and easily.
Delivers key references that list other useful resources for information.
Includes these seven new chapters to keep you on the cutting edge of your specialty:
Assessment of Cardiac Filling and Blood Flow
Mechanical Ventilation of Obstructive Airways Disease
Mechanical Ventilation of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Severe Sepsis and Multiple Organ Dysfunction
Stroke
Delirium, Psychosis, Sleep and Depression in the ICU
This handy pocket guide features a "how to" approach to common problems that require immediate attention in an ambulatory care setting. The book emphasizes the ability to handle urgent and emergent care situations quickly and efficiently with a focus on low-tech procedures and skills. Descriptions are concise and provide basic procedures with the necessary skills. More than 200 illustrations supplement the text. Plus, a "Practical Tips" section for easy learning.
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