ESPNIC Children’s Intensive Care Textbook / edited by Joe Brierley, Pierre Tissieres, Akash Deep.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brierley, Joe.

Contributor:

Tissieres, Pierre.

Deep, Akash.

Series:

Medicine Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical care medicine.

Pediatrics.

Emergency medicine.

Anesthesiology.

Intensive Care Medicine.

Emergency Medicine.

Local Subjects:

Intensive Care Medicine.

Pediatrics.

Emergency Medicine.

Anesthesiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1509 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

This textbook provides the fundamental of children’s critical care from a European perspective. It offers a valuable guide for beginners as well as for clinicians working in Intensive Care and allied professionals including the role of an ICU in a modern children’s hospital, specific situations and clinical practice achievements including techniques and the more appropriate therapies to be applied in different conditions. A section is devoted to specific organs – lung, heart and circulation, kidney and RRT, gut, brain, liver and pancreas, inflammation, immunity and sepsis, metabolism and metabolic diseases in ICU – whilst other to Cardiac Critical Care and Neuro Critical Care Edited and written by renowned key opinion leaders in the field, all chapters use a learning-oriented style, with practical examples, key points and take-home messages, so that readers can easily learn the content and, at the same time, apply what they have learned in the clinical setting. ESPNIC Children’s Intensive Care Textbook is also the prime textbook for the EPIC Diploma, matching the published international consensus curriculum and it is accompanied by an MCQ, in the fashion of the exam style.

Contents:

Part 1 Introduction

Part 2 Why do children need critical care

Part 3 Mortality predications and scores

Part 4 ICU structure

Part 5 The Lung and Mechanical Ventilation in ICU

Part 6 Fluids & Hemodynamics

Part 7 Specific Organ System Failure

Part 8 Cardiac Critical Care

Part 9 Neuro Critical Care

Part 10 Hematological issues in PICU

Part 11 Specific situations

Part 12 Vital Support

Part 13 Looking after people

Part 14 Where do critically ill children go?

Part 15 Needed Research in ICU

Part 16 Education.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-031-64762-9

OCLC:

1526862403