Pocket Guide to Critical Care Pharmacotherapy (eBook)

John Papadopoulos (Herausgeber)

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2008 | 2008
XIX, 208 Seiten
Humana Press (Verlag)
978-1-59745-488-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book serves as a pocket bedside medical reference, providing the unique element of supplying a step-by-step design that will guide clinicians in giving their patient optimal, evidence-based care. The book provides practical points based on both real patient-care experience and review of current medical literature with the aim of providing guidance to all critical care clinicians. The book covers the most common ailments observed in critically ill medical patients. It uses an algorithmic, easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach. Clinicians with varying degrees of training will be able to follow its format.

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Because critical care medicine is a cutting-edge medical field that is highly evidence-based, studies are continuously published altering the approach to patient-care. This creates a challenge for many clinicians to keep abreast of the latest data. This book serves as a pocket bedside medical reference, providing the unique element of supplying a step-by-step design that will guide clinicians in giving their patient optimal, evidence-based care. The book provides practical points based on both real patient-care experience and review of current medical literature with the aim of providing guidance to all critical care clinicians. By covering the most common ailments observed in critically ill medical patients and using an algorithmic, easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach while focusing on pharmacotherapeutics with a greater in-depth review of optimal pharmacological principles, clinicians with varying degrees of training will be able to follow. Additionally assessment tools (e.g., sedation assessment), preventative strategies (e.g., stress-related mucosal damage prophylaxis), drug-induced disease states, and pharmacological pearls (e.g. [from sample chapters], neuromuscular blockade reversal, adverse effects of blood transfusions, and propylene glycol content of various medications) are provided, along with up to date references and web-links for many disease states so clinicians who want to review the available literature are able to do so. One order to make the book easy to reference in an emergency or ICU setting, individual chapters utilize one table per disease state. The current books on the market do not emphasis specific disease therapeutics - this book offers very specific context for the therapeutic treatment and management of a disease.

Inhalt

Preface 6
Contents 7
Editor 8
List of Tables 9
1 Advance Cardiac Life Support 16
2 Cardiovascular 36
3 Cerebrovascular 70
4 Critical Care 79
5 Dermatology 114
6 Endocrinology 116
7 Gastrointestinal 122
8 Hematology 132
9 Infectious Disease 138
10 Neurology 143
11 Nutrition 148
12 Psychiatric Disorders 154
13 Pulmonary 160
14 Renal 166
Index 194

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.1.2008
• Zusatzinfo: XIX, 208 p.
• Verlagsort: Totowa
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Intensivmedizin
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
• Schlagworte: anemia • Care • critical care • infectious disease • Intensive Care Medicine • Kinetics • Neurology • Nutrition • Pain • pharmacotherapy • Sepsis • shock • Steroids • Treatment
• ISBN-10: 1-59745-488-5 / 1597454885
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59745-488-9 / 9781597454889