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Critical Care

Standards, Audit and Ethics

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

1995
Hodder Arnold (Verlag)
978-0-340-55424-1 (ISBN)

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Although there are many books on the clinical aspects of intensive care units, very little is available on other issues such as standards of safety, management, planning, staff provision and training. This book sets out to fill this gap.

'Critical Care: Standards, Audit and Ethics' brings together the important issues which are topical and relevant to the dilemmas faced by all concerned with the management of critically ill patients. The standards of resources that should be available to deliver this care are discussed, including transport of the critically ill, the design of intensive care units, technical support, and the staffing and training within related disciplines, viewed from a world wide perspective. The authors review and debate: current theories and practice in audit to quantify critical illnesses; the selection of patients; the results of critical care and the quality of survival as well as the cost benefits; the ethics of establishing health care priorities; withholding and withdrawing life-support; the ethical issues of organ donation; clinical research, medico-legal, moral and religious aspects of critical care.

This is the first book to look in depth at the principles and practice of the organisational aspects of intensive care delivery and will be of value to all members of the multidisciplinary Intensive Care team: physicians, nurses, trainees and managers. Every Intensive Care Unit should have a copy.

Part 1 Critical care - The history of critical care
Critical care today
The development, utilization and cost implications of intensive care medicine - strategies for the future
Part 2 Resource standards - Primary and mobile care: land, sea, and air
General care units
Specialist care units
Non-invasive monitoring
Invasive monitoring
Imaging
The laboratory
Respiratory support
Cardiac support
Renal support
Staff and training: medical
nursing
respiratory and physical
scientific and technical
Part 3 Audit - The process of clinical audit
Quantifying critical illness
Selection of patients for critical care
Results of critical care and quality of survival
Evaluating costs and benefits
Part 4 Ethics - Establishing health care priorities
Withholding and withdrawing life support
Ethical issues of organ donation
Clinical research in critical care
Medico-legal aspects of critical care
Moral and religious dilemmas
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.10.1995
Zusatzinfo	77 b/w illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie
	Pflege ► Fachpflege ► Anästhesie / Intensivmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Palliativpflege / Sterbebegleitung
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Logistik / Produktion
ISBN-10	0-340-55424-X / 034055424X
ISBN-13	978-0-340-55424-1 / 9780340554241
Zustand	Neuware