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Books in Critical care

This collection covers intensive care management, ventilator support, and sepsis treatment. It supports intensivists, emergency physicians, and researchers in advancing critical care practices. Featuring evidence-based protocols and case studies, these resources address complex, life-threatening conditions with a focus on patient survival and recovery.

  • Neonatal Nursing: Clinical Concepts and Practice Implications, Part 1, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 36-1
    • Leslie Altimier
    • English

  • Infectious Diseases in the Intensive Care Unit, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 42-3
    • Sameer S. Kadri-Rodriguez + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editors Drs. Sameer S. Kadri-Rodriguez and Christina Yek bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Infectious Diseases in the Intensive Care Unit. Top experts cover key issues such as management of meningitis and encephalitis; the global ICU: malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, and more; optimal pathways for source control in the ICU; lower respiratory tract infections: precision diagnostics; and much more.

  • Innovations in Critical Care Nursing, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 38-2
    • Elizabeth Scruth + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, guest editors Elizabeth Scruth and Vanessa A. Martinez bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Innovations in Critical Care Nursing. Innovations in critical care nursing—in areas such as care delivery models, nurse-led initiatives, and virtual nursing—are pivotal in enhancing both patient and nurse satisfaction, reducing practice pain points, and improving patient outcomes. This issue highlights these areas and provides the information critical care nurses need to drive meaningful improvements in patient outcomes and overall healthcare quality.

  • Organization and Management of Critical Care Services, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 42-2
    • Stephen M. Pastores + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editors Drs. Stephen M. Pastores and John M. Oropello bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Organization and Management of Critical Care Services. Top experts cover key issues in the strategic planning, coordination, and delivery of intensive medical care to critically ill patients. Topics include innovation, technology and telemedicine in critical care; how to start and sustain a system-based high-reliability medicine venture for your CCO; the future of critical care: policy, innovation, and global perspectives; and much more.

  • Family-Centered Care in Critical Care, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 38-1
    • Danielle Leone-Sheehan
    • English
    In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, guest editor Danielle Leone-Sheehan brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Family-Centered Care in Critical Care Nursing. A growing body of evidence supports that family-centered care results in shorter hospital stays, reduced complications, reduced anxiety, higher adherence rates, lower health care costs, and reduced nursing burnout. This issue explores the tenets of family-centered care so that the goals of improved patient outcomes, enhanced family satisfaction, reduction of patient and family anxiety, and promotion of continuity of care can be achieved.

  • Vía aérea crítica

    • 1st Edition
    • Antonio Cárdenas Cruz
    • Spanish
    Este manual aborda de forma integral la gestión y el control de la vía aérea en pacientes críticos, desde la conceptualización anatómica y funcional hasta la aplicación clínica avanzada. Fundamentado en la mejor evidencia científica y experiencia clínica, y con una perspectiva internacional, propone un cambio de paradigma basado en la multidisciplinarieda... la prevención y la intervención precoz para el manejo de la vía aérea crítica. Su enfoque eminentemente práctico lo distingue de otras propuestas más teóricas, y su contextualización en el entorno hospitalario le permite ofrecer un modelo replicable en distintos entornos asistenciales. Vía aérea crítica está estructurado en ocho módulos que tratan, respectivamente: la conceptualización; la gestión y la planificación; la formación y la investigación; los recursos logísticos; la farmacología; los recursos técnicos, y las poblaciones y los escenarios especiales -como el control de la vía aérea en la atención obstétrica, pediátrica y geriátrica, la asistencia prehospitalaria y la atención a múltiples víctimas, entre otros-. El último módulo se centra en la aplicación de predictores de vía aérea difícil mediante inteligencia artificial, árboles de decisión y planes secuenciales de actuación.

  • Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 42-1
    • Sarah M. Perman + 2 more
    • English
    In this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editors Drs. Sarah M. Perman, Robert A. Berg, and Vinay M. Nadkarni bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Top experts cover key issues such as physiology-guided CPR; emerging biotechnology: mitochondria, genomics, personalized medicine; implementation challenges in emergency cardiovascular care; a state-of-the-art update in E-CPR; defibrillation strategies; and much more.

  • Creating Healthy Work Environments in Critical Care Nursing, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 37-4
    • Sarah Delgado + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, guest editors Sarah Delgado and Kathryn Ann Connell bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Creating Healthy Work Environments in Critical Care Nursing. Top experts discuss how implementing and maintaining healthy work environments is foundational to addressing current, pervasive issues in critical care nursing, including poor quality of care, inappropriate staffing, workplace violence, medical/nursing errors, bias/ discrimination/ inequity, and threats to nurse wellbeing. Additional articles describe the roles of leaders, advanced practice nurses, staff nurses, contingent staff, nurses on alternate shifts, and nurse scientists in contributing to the health of the work environment.

  • Raisonnement clinique en médecine d'urgence

    • 1st Edition
    • Maurice Raphaël + 1 more
    • French
    Sur des problématiques rencontrées par les praticiens dans leur exercice quotidien, la collection « Elsevier Pratique » apporte des réponses cliniques précises, rapidement accessibles. Ces ouvrages sont conçus pour être une aide à la pratique clinique. Aux urgences, le médecin se retrouve fréquemment face à l’imprévisible : symptômes flous, données incomplètes, pression du temps, patients inquiets, flux incessant. Dans ce contexte, le raisonnement clinique n’est pas un luxe intellectuel, mais un outil capital qui permet de guider le praticien dans les décisions à prendre ou à ne pas prendre.Raisonner vite, mais bien. Le défi principal est d’identifier la gravité avant la probabilité, pour éviter de manquer l’urgence vitale, sans céder à la tentation de multiplier les examens inutiles qui engorgent les services. C’est aussi maîtriser les circuits courts, ces raccourcis cognitifs qui parfois nous égarent de bonne foi. Tel est l’équilibre délicat que ce livre propose d’explorer.Fruit de réflexions, d’expériences et de regards croisés, cet ouvrage ne se contente pas d’énoncer des algorithmes. Il met en lumière les mécanismes de pensée, les biais cognitifs qui menacent la clarté du jugement, et les stratégies qui permettent de sécuriser l’action. Il rappelle que raisonner, c’est protéger : protéger le patient de l’erreur diagnostique, protéger le système des sur-prescriptions, protéger le clinicien du chaos cognitif.Ce livre s’adresse à tous les médecins d’urgence, débutants comme confirmés, qui veulent affiner leur art de décider sous contrainte. Ni manuel figé, ni recette miracle, il se veut une invitation à cultiver un raisonnement clinique rigoureux, adaptable et lucide : une compétence essentielle pour transformer l’incertitude en action juste et pertinente. POINTS CLÉSLes méthodes de raisonnement clinique et les biais cognitifsLes freins au raisonnement et le concept de médecine défensiveRaisonner en pratique devant les grands motifs de recoursMaurice Raphaël est médecin urgentiste au centre des urgences Hirslanden de Lausanne, membre du CA du CFMU et d’urgences DPC. Membre du comité scientifique du traité EMC, conseiller éditorial de la collection Elsevier Pratique Urgences, référent urgentiste au DIU d’urgences traumatologiques (Paris XI et Paris XIII, Rennes, Besançon, Strasbourg), chargé de cours au sein du programme MSc IPS. UNIL Lausanne.Frédéric Thys est médecin interniste et urgentiste, chef de pôle de Médecine Aiguë, adjoint à la direction médicale et maître de stage en médecine d’urgence au Grand Hôpital de Charleroi (Belgique). Professeur au sein des facultés de médecine et de santé publique à l’UCLouvain, il est responsable académique de la formation continue dans le secteur de la santé et co-président du Board Management de la SFMU.

  • Optimizing Sedation & Analgesia in the ICU, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 41-4
    • Yahya Shehabi + 2 more
    • English
    In this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editors Drs. Yahya Shehabi, Joanna L. Stollings, and Timothy D. Gerard bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Optimizing Sedation and Analgesia in the ICU. Top experts cover key issues such as the role of antipsychotic agents for adjunct sedation; analgesia first for every patient: current concepts in critical illness; monitoring sedation depth in critical illness; inhalational agents as ICU sedatives; and much more.