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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 31, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0792333829
ISBN-13: 978-0792333821.

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Critical Choices and Critical Care brings together the traditional reflections on ordinary and extraordinary means with Catholic social thought. It examines the difficult questions on the allocation of high technology resources used in intensive care medicine. The book also provides relevant background information (e.g. statements by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith). It is accessible to theologians, philosophers, and health care professionals.

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Hardcover: 250 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (March 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1402074212
ISBN-13: 978-1402074219.

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Severe Infections Caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa emphasizes controversies worldwide in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and pathogenesis of pseudomonas aeruginosa infections. By including both chapters written by European authors and chapters written by North American experts, the reader is ensured of receiving a broad spectrum of opinions on controversial topics. Special attention is paid to such topics as the diagnosis of hospital-acquired pneumonia caused by p. aeruginosa, scheduled antibiotic therapy for patients with cystic fibrosis, empiric therapy for febrile neurotropenic patients, combination vs. single agent antibiotic therapy for severely ill patients, and alternatives to conventional antibiotic therapies.

This excellent overview of our current understanding of pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenesis will prove useful to clinicians and microbiologists around the globe.

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Hardcover: 411 pages
Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 1 edition (July 12, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1859962378
ISBN-13: 978-1859962374.

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A thorough understanding of the cardiopulmonary system is one of the foundations of critical care. In this important new text, specialists in respiratory medicine, cardiology and critical care have created an authoritative, integrated presentation of the core information essential for effective patient management. This book is a clinically relevant reference, not only as a study resource, but also for everyday use in the unit. The style and layout of the book reflect this, with numerous diagrams, flowcharts and checklists complementing the text and providing easy access to the key information.

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Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 1 edition (September 26, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0826102689
ISBN-13: 978-0826102683.

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Nursing is a crucial component of our healthcare system, and yet, unlike the services provided by doctors, the care given to patients by our nurses remains largely undocumented in a measurable format. Because of the lack of available data, nursing is rarely considered by the government when changes are made to our healthcare system, and as a consequence nursing continues to suffer the most severe budget cuts and lack of support. All of which greatly affect the care patients receive and damages our overall healthcare system. To address this oversight and counter the growing frustration in the nursing community, Virginia Saba created a PMRI compatible coding system that fully documents the specifics and impact of nursing in a singular terminology. The Clinical Care Classification (CCC) system can be used regardless of health care setting and covers Nursing Diagnoses and Outcomes as well as Nursing Interventions and Action Types. This manual brings together the CCC terminology that was previously only available on Dr. Saba’s website with background on its development and instructions on how best to code and apply the terminology. The CCC is the only system of its kind devoted to streamlining and classifying nursing and its impact in medicine. It is already changing the way nursing is viewed in the medical community and with this manual it is another step closer to bringing nurses the recognition they deserve as integral members of patient care.

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Hardcover: 248 pages
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA); 1 edition (January 31, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1591472067
ISBN-13: 978-1591472063.

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Critical Events in Psychotherapy Supervision helps supervisors understand the dilemmas they most frequently encounter when supervising psychotherapist trainees. Such dilemmas may include ambiguity about roles, misunderstandings related to cultural background and gender, problematic attitudes and behavior, skill deficits, countertransference, and sexual attraction to clients. Resolving these difficulties effectively is particularly important in the supervisor-supervisee relationship, because doing so models positive ways of handling interactions with clients. Drawing on their extensive supervisory experience, the authors propose a model for turning problems into opportunities for growth. By closely analyzing transcripts of dialogs between trainees and supervisors, they show how dilemmas can be identified, mutually explored, and overcome. The dialogs make for fascinating reading and illustrate a range of situations commonly encountered during the supervision of mental health professionals. This book offers solutions for academic and clinical supervisors in fields such as counseling and guidance, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, social work, and psychiatric nursing.

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Hardcover: 564 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (March 24, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521872839
ISBN-13: 978-0521872836.

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Most patients with critical cardiac or thoracic conditions will at some stage pass through the cardiothoracic critical care unit. Critical care presents more complex clinical data than any other area of medicine. Continuous monitoring makes diagnosis easy and further information can be easily obtained via a variety of diagnostic tools. Core Topics in Cardiothoracic Critical Care will guide clinicians from all disciplines in the management of cardiothoracic patients, demystifying the critical care unit and providing the key knowledge in a concise and accessible manner. The central section is a detailed discussion of the management of each physiologic system; additional sections cover admission, general considerations in cardiothoracic critical care, procedure-specific care, discharge and follow-up, structure and organization of the unit, and ethical and legal issues. All aspects of the overall care of the critically ill cardiothoracic patient are explained concisely and comprehensively by experts in the field.

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Spiral-bound: 191 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (January 5, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813823315
ISBN-13: 978-0813823317.

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Veterinary emergency and critical care medicine is one of the fastest-growing fields in veterinary medicine today. While there are many books out on the subject there has been no image-based manual for common emergency procedures aimed at the general practitioner as well as emergency specialist. This text provides step-by-step instructions for a variety of common procedures with photographs illustrating each step in the procedure. This is the ideal guide for veterinarians providing emergency and critical care.

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Paperback: 230 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (January 15, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0192625837
ISBN-13: 978-0192625830.

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Doctors working for the first time in an intensive care unit are faced with a variety of extremely ill and technically demanding patients. Very often they are exposed to situations for which they have not been properly prepared. Although most disciplines and professional examinations now demand some understanding of intensive care, opportunities for learning intensive care medicine are limited, with few courses available. Critical Care Cases presents a cross section of common problems seen in intensive care, presented by experienced teachers working in this field. Each topic begins with a real life case history, complete with examination findings, biochemistry, and blood gases. Readers are then given the opportunity to consider how they would manage the situation, before turning over to find a full discussion and recommendations from an expert in the field. The book covers all the common intensive care problems, including respiratory failure, trauma, infection, and neurological disorders, and will provide a stimulating and thought provoking text for anyone preparing to work in intensive care medicine.

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Hardcover: 672 pages
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (August 8, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0750675721
ISBN-13: 978-0750675727.

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This new bedside manual guides you through all the practical aspects of managing patients following cardiothoracic surgery and critically ill cardiology patients. Primarily designed to use in cardiothoracic intensive care units and coronary care units, it covers the perioperative management for the full range of cardiothoracic surgical procedures, the management of complications, and related issues. Core topics in cardiothoracic critical care, such as hemodynamic instability, arrhythmias, bleeding, and mechanical cardiac support, are afforded broad coverage. Also included are sections on advanced ventilatory techniques and veno-venous ECMO for treating severe respiratory failure, as well as nutritional support, treating and preventing infection, renal failure, and care of the dying patient. Concisely written and featuring liberal use of illustrations as well as an integrated, tightly edited style, and a limited number of key references, this volume will become your reference of choice for the care of of cardiothoracic surgery patients and critically ill cardiology patients. Also included is a companion CD-ROM featuring over 700 still and 200 video clips of radiographs, CT scans, MRI scans, and echocardiograms, both transthoracic and transesophageal.

• Find information quickly with concisely written text.
• Get a more complete picture with extensive illustrations.
• Focus on just the information you need using a a limited number of key references.
• Navigate the complexities of critical care for a fulll range of cardiothoracic surgery patients with in-depth coverage of perioperative care, management of complications, and more.
• Enhance your knowledge through a companion CD-ROM featuring the latest in cardiothoracic imaging techniques.

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Hardcover: 1200 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (December 29, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 013119271X
ISBN-13: 978-0131192713.

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Critical Care Paramedic is the first and only book written for the expanding field of critical care transport. Utilizing the successful format of Brady’s best-selling Paramedic Care: Principles & Practice, this book is both written and extensively reviewed by leading experts in the field. This comprehensive book addresses all aspects of critical care transport including: operations, safety, advanced pharmacodynamics, advanced physiologic monitoring, advanced airway management, medical emergencies, trauma emergencies, organ donation, and other important areas of critical care. Critical Care Paramedic will be the industry standard for critical care paramedic education and available only from Brady.

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