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Advances in Trauma, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 33-1
  • November 30, 2016
  • Lena M. Napolitano
  • English
  • Hardback
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Guest editor Lena Napolitano has assembled an expert team of authors on the topic of Trauma in the ICU. Articles will focus on: Non-compressible Torso Hemorrhage; Prediction of Massive Transfusion in Trauma; Coagulopathy of Trauma; Viscoelastic testing and Hyperfibrinolysis in Trauma; Tranexamic Update in Trauma; Optimal Reversal of Novel Anticoagulants in Trauma; Optimal Transfusion for Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock; and more!

Mechanical Ventilation in the Critically Ill Patient: International Nursing Perspectives, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 28-4
  • October 31, 2016
  • Sandra Goldsworthy
  • English
  • Hardback
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Dr. Goldsworthy has created a state-of-the-art issue that emphasizes the nurse's role in mechanical ventilation. Pertinent clinical topics include the following: basics of mechanical ventilation for nurses; current modes for mechanical ventilation; best practices for managing pain, sedation, and delirium in the mechanically ventilated patient; mobilization of and optimal oxygenation for the mechanicaly ventilated patient; managing complications; and effective weaning strategies. Authors also address mechanical ventilation in both children and neonates. The current content in this issue will leave nurses with the clinical information they need to effectively manage mechanically ventilated patients.

Manual de medicina intensiva

  • 5th Edition
  • October 7, 2016
  • Juan Carlos Montejo González + 3 more
  • Spanish
  • eBook
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La nueva edición del Manual de medicina intensiva continua con el compromiso de ofrecer una herramienta actualizada y de gran valor para el día a día de la atención a los pacientes críticos, convirtiéndose en una guía básica en el conocimiento de la medicina intensiva y en la aplicación de sus fundamentos a los pacientes críticos. Más de 185 autores procedentes de más de 50 centros hospitalarios participan en esta obra, la mayoría de ellos médicos especialistas en medicina intensiva, aunque se han incorporado también especialistas de otras disciplinas involucradas en el tratamiento del paciente crítico. Especialistas en medicina de urgencias y atención extrahospitalaria, medicina del aparato digestivo y cardiología son algunos de ellos. Esta edición presenta contenidos revisados y totalmente actualizados, incluidos los apéndices. Algunos de los temas que se han actualizado con más profundidad en esta nueva edición con las técnicas de soporte circulatorio extracorpóreo, técnicas ecográficas, trasplantes y nuevos datos sobre los diferentes sistemas de monitorización, entre otros. El contenido electrónico de esta edición se ha enriquecido con nuevos materiales. Se mantienen los casos clínicos y los vídeos sobre técnicas y equipos.

Burn Resuscitation, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 32-4
  • September 10, 2016
  • Kevin N. Foster + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Burn Resuscitation in the ICU. Articles include: The Physiologic Basis of Burn Shock and the Need for Aggressive Fluid Resuscitation; The Use of Colloid in Burn Resuscitation; Monitoring and Endpoints of Burn Resuscitation; Vitamin C in Burn Resuscitation; Pediatric Burn Resuscitation; Burn resuscitation in the Austere Environment; Failed Burn resuscitation; and more!

Hepatology and Critical Care, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 32-3
  • July 6, 2016
  • Rahul S. Nanchal + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Hepatology and Critical Care. Articles include: Acute on Chronic and Decompensated Chronic Liver Failure, Hepatic Encephalopathy, Respiratory Complication in Liver Disease, GI Issues in Liver Disease, Bridging the Patient with Liver Disease to Transplant or Recovery, Infections in Liver Disease, Kidney Injury in Liver Disease, The Liver in Critical Illness, Hematological Issues in Liver Disease, Pharmacological Issues in Liver Disease and more!

Vascular Nursing

  • 4th Edition
  • July 2, 2016
  • Victora A. Fahey
  • English
  • eBook
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Vascular Nursing remains the only clinical reference devoted solely to the nursing care of patients with peripheral vascular disorders. This thoroughly updated and revised text provides a comprehensive overview of vascular disease and presents specific nursing management strategies for each vascular disorder. Valuable for practitioners in both the inpatient and the outpatient setting, the fourth edition includes information on the new minimally invasive endoluminal surgery that is replacing traditional surgery. New technology for diagnostic evaluation of vascular disease and non-operative management of vascular disease is covered in detail.

Gastrointestinal Issues in Critical Care, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 32-2
  • March 31, 2016
  • Rahul S. Nanchal + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Gastrointestinal Critical Care. Articles include: Non variceal Upper Gastrointestinal bleeds; Lower Gastrointestinal bleeds; Mesenteric Ischemia; Peritonitis; The open abdomen and intra abdominal infections; Gut motility issues in critical illness; Gut as the motor of multiple organ dysfunction; Intra abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome; Abdominal circulatory interactions in critical illness; Severe acute pancreatitis and necrotizing pancreatitis; and Nutrition in the critically ill.

Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 32-1
  • December 11, 2015
  • Peter J. Papadakos + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies in the ICU. Articles include: Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation in the Pregnant Patient, Anesthetic Complications in Pregnancy, Neurologic Complications in Pregnancy, Renal Failure in Pregnancy, Management Complex Cardiac Issues in the Pregnant Patient, Liver Failure in Pregnancy, Hypertensive Emergencies in Pregnancy, Ethical Issues in Pregnancy, and more!

Manual of Critical Care Nursing

  • 7th Edition
  • November 13, 2015
  • Marianne Saunorus Baird
  • English
  • eBook
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The compact, yet comprehensive, Manual of Critical Care Nursing: Nursing Interventions and Collaborative Management, 7th Edition is your students’a go-to reference forto help you provide safe, high-quality nursing care in the clinicalcritical care settings. Written in an abbreviated outline format, this easy-to-use Manual presents essential information on more than 75 disorders and conditions, as well as concepts relevant to caring for all critically ill patients and functioning in the critical care environment. Award-winning clinical nurse specialist Marianne Baird separates the content first by body system and then by disorder, with each disorder including a brief description of pathophysiology, assessment, diagnostic testing, collaborative management, nursing diagnoses, desired outcomes, nursing interventions, and patient teaching and rehabilitation. With the latest NANDA-I nursing diagnoses and new sections on Bariatric Considerations and Caring for the Elderly, this practical manual is designed to help critical care nurses and nursing students better care for any critically ill patient.

Pass PCCN!

  • 1st Edition
  • October 20, 2015
  • Robin Donohoe Dennison + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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From the author of the bestselling Pass CCRN! and Pass CEN!, Pass PCCN! applies Dennison's time-tested approach to the Progressive Care Nursing Certification exam and follows the latest PCCN exam test plan, with one or more chapters for each section of the exam. This all-new review book features a thorough review in narrative format for each chapter — and covers all the content you need, including the disorders unique to the PCCN, to master the PCCN exam. Learning Activities interspersed throughout the book, as well as more than 900 review questions on the companion Evolve website, are geared towards progressive care nurses and offer valuable test-taking experience.