Essential Guide to Acute Care (eBook)

N Cooper (Autor)

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2008 | 2. Auflage
216 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-4051-7230-1 (ISBN)

Infos

What you really need to know, but no one told you.

The Essential Guide to Acute Care contains everything youreally need to know about acute care that you can't find in astandard textbook and have probably never been taught before.

Starting with the concept of patients at risk, the EssentialGuide to Acute Care explains how to recognise and manage thegeneric altered physiology that accompanies acute illness.

The principles of acute care are explained simply yetcomprehensively. Throughout the book 'mini-tutorials'expand on the latest thinking or controversies, and practical casehistories reinforce learning at the end of each chapter. Thechapters are designed to be read by individuals or used for grouptutorials in acute care.

Extensively rewritten and updated, this second edition isessential reading for anyone who looks after acutely ill adults,including:
* * Foundation Programme trainees and trainers

* Trainees in medicine, surgery, anaesthesia and emergencymedicine

* Final year medical students

* Nursing staff and allied professionals working in criticalcare

Autor

Dr Nicola Cooper, MRCP, Specialist Registrar in GeneralInternal Medicine and Care of the Elderly, Yorkshire, UK Dr Kirsty Forrest, FRCA, Consultant in Anaesthesia, TheLeeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Yorkshire, UK Dr Paul Cramp, MRCP FRCA, Consultant in Anaesthesia andIntensive Care, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Yorkshire,UK

Inhalt

Forewrod.

Introduction.

Acknowledgements.

Units used in this book.

1 Patients at risk.

2 Oxygen therapy.

3 Acid-base balance.

4 Respiratory failure.

5 Fluid balance and volume resuscitation.

6 Sepsis.

7 Acute renal failure.

8 Brain failure.

9 Optimising patients before surgery.

10 Pain control and sedation.

Appendix - Practical procedures.

Index

Rezensionen

"This book is for trainees who regularly come into contact with acutely ill adults. By explaining the physiological changes it aims to provide a logical basis for management and optimal care. To provide a book that will be useful to a range of grades from a variety of disciplines is certainly a challenge. However I think this book succeeds admirably. It really does provide a lot of information that you really want to know and understand and which is not available in the standard texts...I think this is an excellent book which I would certainly recommend to all grades - as a learning tool for trainees and as a refresher to senior staff." Clinical Tutor and Foundation Programme Director, Cheltenham General Hospital

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Intensivmedizin
• Schlagworte: Intensive/Critical Care • Intensivpflege • Medical Science • Medizin
• ISBN-10: 1-4051-7230-4 / 1405172304
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-7230-1 / 9781405172301