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    • 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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      • eBook
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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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      • eBook
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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!

    • Réanimation - OFFRE PREMIUM

      • 3rd Edition
      • June 11, 2016
      • Georges Offenstadt + 8 more
      • French
      • eBook
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      Réanimation 3ème édition Cette offre Premium propose un pack qui regroupe : - le livre papier Réanimation : Les Essentiels en Médecine Intensive-Réanimatio... composé de chapitres du Traité complet, spécialement sélectionnés par les membres du Comité de Rédaction, - l’accès à l’intégralité du Traité complet de plus de 4000 pages au format électronique (eBook -Pour IOS, Android, Mac et PC-) : toutes les connaissances en Réanimation en quelques clics ! L’objectif de cette nouvelle édition entièrement révisée est de présenter de manière exhaustive l’évolution des connaissances dans tous les domaines de la Réanimation. Son approche à la fois complète et didactique destine ce traité aussi bien aux réanimateurs accomplis qu’aux étudiants en réanimation. Le livre traite de toutes les connaissances indispensables à la bonne pratique de la Réanimation : les principes essentiels en physiologie ; les réponses à l’agression ; les procédures et les techniques de suppléance ; toutes les affections prises en charge en Réanimation ; le management d’un service de Réanimation et enfin l’éthique en Réanimation. Plus de 700 illustrations et schémas ainsi que 16 vidéos enrichissent cet ouvrage. L’évolution universitaire de la discipline qui s’associe dès la rentrée universitaire 2017-2018 à l’Anesthésie pour devenir un diplôme d’enseignement supérieur : DESARMIR (Diplôme d’Enseignement Supérieur d’Anesthésie-Réanima... et de Médecine Intensive-Réanimatio... est, bien entendu, prise en compte dans cette nouvelle édition. Publié sous l’égide du CNER et écrit par un collectif d’experts, cet ouvrage a été coordonné par le professeur Georges Offenstadt, service de réanimation de l’Hôpital Saint-Antoine à Paris.

    • 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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      • eBook
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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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      • eBook
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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!

    • Pass PCCN!

      • 1st Edition
      • October 20, 2015
      • Robin Donohoe Dennison + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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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.

    • Nephrology, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 31-4
      • October 5, 2015
      • John Kellum
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Dr. John Kellum has assembled an essential update on the topic of Nephrology as it relates to Critical Care Medicine. Articles include: Diagnostic criteria, Biomarkers for AKI, Sepsis-induced AKI,Drug-induced AKI, Cardio-renal syndrome,Surgery Associated AKI,Contrast-induced AKI, Principles of Fluid Therapy,Fluid composition and clinical effects, Renal replacement therapy, and Understanding acid-base.

    • Manual of Critical Care Nursing

      • 7th Edition
      • October 1, 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.

    • Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in the ICU, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 31-3
      • July 6, 2015
      • Vipin Malik
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This issue provideds a comprehensive update to Sleep Medicine in the Intensive Care Unit, with editor Vipin Malik assembling a line-up of key topics such as:Sleep Neurobiology and Critical Care Illness,Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome and Respiratory Failure,Obstructive Sleep Apnea,Non-Invasive Ventilation in Critically Ill Patients,Restless Leg Syndrome,Sleep and Endocrine System,Congestive Heart Failure and Central Sleep Apnea,Circadian Dysrhythmias,Neuromu... Disorders and Sleep in Critically Ill Patients, Perioperative Issues and Sleep Disordered Breathing, Seizures, and more!

    • Management of Patients with Traumatic Injuries, An Issue of Critical Nursing Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 27-2
      • June 4, 2015
      • Karen Bergman
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      Special considerations arise as critical care nurses care for victims of trauma and violence. This issue highlights the recent advances in the care of these patients, including victims of street crime and domestic violence. As a result of the wars in Afganistan and Iraq, changes in the echelons of care have been brought to U.S. trauma centers in order to better triage, manage, and provide post-surgical care to trauma patients. Articles in this issue address the advances in this field.