Oh's Intensive Care Manual E-Book

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Elsevier Health Sciences, Oct 31, 2013 - Medical - 1154 pages

Whether you’re a newcomer to the ICU or a seasoned practitioner, Oh's Intensive Care Manual delivers the practical, expert answers you need to manage the conditions you see every day in the intensive care unit. This highly esteemed, bestselling medical reference book presents comprehensive detail on each topic, while maintaining a succinct, accessible style so this information can be seamlessly incorporated into your daily practice.

  • Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability.
  • Access everything you need to know about disease processes and their management during the course of ICU rotations.
  • Gain valuable insight into the consensus of practice and standard of ICU care as followed in the UK, Europe, India, and Australia.
  • Take advantage of expert advice on practical issues that will be encountered on a day-to-day basis in the ICU, as well as common pitfalls in treatment and management emphasized in each chapter.
  • Overcome the latest challenges in intensive care medicine. Ten brand-new chapters in this edition include: Palliative Care; ICU and the Elderly; Health Care Team in Intensive Care Medicine; Preparing for Examinations in Intensive Care Medicine; Ultrasound in the ICU; ECMO for Respiratory Failure; ECMO for Cardiac Failure; Cirrhosis and Acute-on-Chronic Liver Disease; Solid Tumours and their Implications in the ICU; and Delirium.
  • Optimize patient outcomes through an even greater focus on clinical management strategies.
  • Quickly locate essential information with an increased number of summary boxes, tables, and charts, and a new chapter organization that expedites reference.
 

Contents

Two Shock
114
Three Acute Coronary Care
166
Four Respiratory Failure
327
Five Gastroenterological Emergencies and Surgery
487
Six Acute Renal Failure
534
Seven Neurological Disorders
548
Eight Endocrine Disorders
629
Nine Obstetric Emergencies
677
Sixteen Transplantation
1030
Seventeen Paediatric Intensive Care
1070
Appendix 1 Normal biochemical values
1168
Appendix 2 Système International SI units
1171
Appendix 3 Respiratory physiology symbols and normal values
1173
Appendix 4 Physiological equations
1176
Appendix 5 Plasma drug concentrations and American nomenclature
1179
Appendix 6 Confirmation of intubation
1183

Ten Infections and Immune Disorders
698
Eleven Severe and Multiple Trauma
754
Twelve Environmental Injuries
816
Thirteen Pharmacologic Considerations
880
Fourteen Metabolic Homeostasis
937
Fifteen Haematological Management
973
Appendix 7 Parameters monitored and measured by the PiCCO monitor
1184
Appendix 8 Mortalitydysfunction risk scores and models
1185
Appendix 9 Therapeutic hypothermia
1189
Appendix 10 The ChildPugh classification
1189
Index
1190
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