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Civetta, Taylor and Kirby's critical care / edited by Andrea Gabrielli, A. Joseph Layon, Mihae Yu.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Critical care medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (2809 p.)
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins : Wolters Kluwer, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The leading critical care textbook since 1988, Civetta, Taylor and Kirby's Critical Care is now in its Fourth Edition, with a new editorial team, over thirty new chapters, and completely updated information. The book addresses every problem encountered in the intensive care unit and covers surgical critical care more thoroughly than any other text. Each chapter begins with immediate concerns and proceeds to broader-based discussions of relevant pathophysiologic and clinical issues.Includes access code for web site with additional resources.
- Contents:
- ""CRITICAL CARE""; ""CONTENTS ""; ""Contributors ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Preface ""; ""SECTION I: Introduction/General Concepts ""; ""Chapter 1: National Health Systems and the Place of Intensive Care Medicine: Which Model? ""; ""Chapter 2: Life and Death in the ICU: Ethical Considerations ""
- ""Chapter 3: Understanding Reactions of Patients and Families """"Chapter 4: Breaking Bad News to Patients ""; ""Chapter 5: Informed Consent ""; ""Chapter 6: Judicial Involvement in End-of-Life Decisions ""
- ""Chapter 7: Collaborative Care: Physician and Nursing Interactions and the Foundation of a Successful Unit """"Chapter 8: Clinical Decision Making ""; ""Chapter 9: How to Read a Medical Journal and Understand Basic Statistics ""; ""Chapter 10: Quality Assurance, Safety, and Outcomes ""
- ""Chapter 11: External Compliance Organizations and Measures """"Chapter 12: The Virtual ICU and Telemedicine: Computers, Electronics, and Data Management ""; ""Chapter 13: Universal Precautions: Protecting the Practitioner ""; ""Chapter 14: Intrahospital Transport of Critically Ill Patients ""
- ""Chapter 15: Interhospital Transport of Critically Ill Patients """"SECTION II: Monitoring ""; ""Chapter 16: Invasive Pressure Monitoring: General Principles ""; ""Chapter 17: Noninvasive Cardiovascular Monitoring ""; ""Chapter 18: Hemodynamic Monitoring: Arterial and Pulmonary Artery Catheters ""
- ""Chapter 19: Monitoring Tissue Perfusion and Oxygenation ""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4698-6757-5
- 1-4511-6559-5
- OCLC:
- 923528770
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