Medical : Critical Care

Serves as a guide to the clinical application of computer assisted systems in monitoring central nervous functions both in the OR and ICU. This book presents guidelines and therapeutic indications for computerized EEG and Somatosensory Evoked Potential (SSEP) monitoring. It also describes what cerebral monitoring can do and its limitations. more...

Price: $179.00

The core of the book focuses on areas common to all critically ill patients including fluid therapy, sedation, shock, infection and other central topics. This key understanding of basic pathophysiological principles provides an excellent launch pad for the section on individual disease entities. more...

Price: $92.00

Zw??lf Jahre nach der Festschreibung der diagnostischen Kriterien der Sepsis werden die SIRS-Kriterien noch immer ignoriert, vor allem im Vorfeld der Intensivmedizin, aber auch auf den Intensivstationen. Nur gut die H??lfte der deutschen Intensivmediziner stellt die Diagnose der Sepsis nach einheitlichen Kriterien. ??hnlich liegen die Dinge bei der Umsetzung therapeutischer Grunds??tze und Empfehlungen. Dieser multidisziplin??r angelegte Band mit Artikeln aus der Zeitschrift Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin erg??nzt in idealer Weise die im Jahr 2005 publizierte S2-Leitlinie Diagnose und Therapie der Sepsis und bildet den aktuellen Stand des Wissens auf diesem Gebiet ab. Damit ist erstmals eine geschlossene Darstellung zur Sepsis verf??gbar, der zurzeit gr????ten Herausforderung an die Intensivmedizin. more...

Price: $49.95

Respiratory failure is a complex disease process whereby the underlying disease and therapeutic measures interact. This book contains an extensive bibliographic review, focusing on preventive and therapeutic studies, that was methodologically standardized, with authors assessing and classifying studies according to statutes of evidence-based medicine. It considers the epidemiology and outcome of mechanical ventilation; addresses ventilator modes and utility of pulmonary mechanics monitoring for treatment; analyzes physiologic effect and patient-outcomes of pulmonary recruitment and lung protective ventilation procedures; describes complications that can be present in these patients such as ventilator-associated pneumonia and useful methods to prevent respiratory infections; covers the impact of bronchodilators, corticosteroids, and antibiotics in acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; discusses how, when, and in whom to do tracheostomy; and evaluates the use of sedation and neuromuscular blockade as well as current clinical trials in acute lung injury. more...

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General Ultrasound in the Critically Ill describes a new clinical tool: ultrasound for the intensive care and emergency physician. Written by an intensivist familiar with ultrasound, it specifically details findings of immediate clinical relevance throughout its approx. 220 pages. Through a whole-body approach, this book considers new emergency applications regarding the abdomen, venous system, head, heart, and the most original topic, the lung.Flow charts are proposed to resolve daily intensive care and emergency occurrences: acute dyspnea, shock, unexplained fever, etc. The strong points and pitfalls of ultrasound are reviewed in detail.This book shows just how critical ultrasound has proven to be in satisfying a major concern in the intensive care and emergency medicine fields: speed and accuracy. With this ever-present requirement for rapid diagnosis in mind, General Ultrasound in the Critically Ill provides a key to practicing a visual medicine, a great benefit to the critically ill patient, especially since ultrasound is noninvasive and can be done at the bedside. This volume is not only an exhaustive atlas dealing with the most variable aspects of the critically ill patient, but it is above all a guide, a permanent aid in the therapeutic decision. more...

Price: $159.00