Global Health and Critical Care Medicine, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

1st Edition, Volume 38-4 - September 28, 2022
Editors: Kristina Elizabeth Rudd, Wangari Waweru-Siika
Language: English
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In this issue, guest editors bring their considerable expertise to this important topic.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Forthcoming Issues
Preface
Essential Emergency and Critical Care: A Priority for Health Systems Globally
Key points
Neglected care of critically ill patients
Care of critically ill patients at different resource levels
The COVID-19 pandemic
The optimal approach to the care of critically ill patients
Essential emergency and critical care
Relationship between essential emergency and critical care and other approaches, initiatives, and disciplines
Implementing essential emergency and critical care
Summary
Clinics care points
Current State of Critical Care Nursing Worldwide: Current Training, Roles, Barriers, and Facilitators
Key points
Background
Methods
Results
Discussion
Clinics care points
The State of Global Trauma and Acute Care Surgery/Surgical Critical Care
Key points
Introduction
Trauma and global burden of disease
Economic costs to nations
The interplay between trauma and critical care
Summary
Clinics care points
Factors to be Considered in Advancing Pediatric Critical Care Across the World
Key points
Introduction
Where does pediatric critical care begin and end?
Summary
Clinics care points
The Next Frontier in Neurocritical Care in Resource-Constrained Settings
Key points
Introduction
Building Critical Care Capacity in a Low-Income Country
Key points
Introduction
Summary
Clinics care points
Author contributions
Critical Care Pandemic Preparation: Considerations and Lessons Learned from COVID-19
Key points
Introduction
Clinics care points
Future and summary
Bleeding, Hemorrhagic Shock, and the Global Blood Supply
Key points
Introduction
Hemorrhage in trauma
Obstetric hemorrhage
Upper gastrointestinal bleeding
Global blood supply
Summary
Clinics care points
Oxygen as an Essential Medicine
Key points
Introduction
History of oxygen therapy in critical care medicine
Physiologic and clinical relevance of oxygen therapy
Choosing the right “dose” of oxygen
Global and public health impact
Oxygen therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic
Summary
Clinics care points
Telemedicine to Expand Access to Critical Care Around the World
Key points
Introduction
History
Tele-critical care set up
Case studies––illustrations
Illustrations
Dominican Republic COVID-19 Tele-Intensive Care Unit—illustrations
Case study: United States and international tele-critical care
India and international tele-critical care
Summary
The future
Clinics care points
Focused Cardiac Ultrasound Training for Non-cardiologists: An Overview and Recommendations for a Lower Middle-Income Country
Key points
Introduction
The development and application of point-of-care applications
The scope of focused cardiac ultrasound
Scanning protocols
Focused cardiac ultrasound training curricula
Competency assessment methods within different clinical specialties
Focused cardiac ultrasound in the critically ill
Research implications and suggestions for the future
Summary
Clinics care points
Facility-Oriented Simulation-Based Emergency Care Training in Kenya: A Practical Approach for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Key points
Introduction
Discussion
Summary
Clinics care points
Living on the Edge of Possibility: Ethical Issues in the Care of Critically Ill Patients in Resource-Limited Settings
Key points
Background
Summary
Clinics care points
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