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Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (March 31, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0792376714
ISBN-13: 978-0792376712.

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This volume explores how the scarce resources of intensive care units should be distributed. Three hypothetical patients, each with a different chance of survival, desire intensive care. A multinational panel of experienced critical care physicians offers assessments of the patients’ conditions and outlines approaches to treatment. These approaches are then examined by academic medical experts and a medical ethicist, as well as from a legal perspective. The result is a well-rounded and introspective look at care for critically ill patients at or near the end of life.

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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: 196 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (July 31, 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 079230439X
ISBN-13: 978-0792304395.

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Hardcover: 915 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (July 27, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0387207538
ISBN-13: 978-0387207537.

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The Update compiles the most recent, widespread developments of experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in the field of intensive care and emergency medicine. It is addressed to everyone involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergency medicine.

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Hardcover: 442 pages
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone; 1 edition (February 15, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0443055289
ISBN-13: 978-0443055287.

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(Churchill Livingstone) Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Trust, London, UK. Focuses on the growing specialty of pediatric nursing. Emphasis is on immediate care, specific disorders and their management using a systems approach, and important issues related to intensive care. For pediatric nurses.

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Paperback: 454 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 11, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540301585
ISBN-13: 978-3540301585.

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There have been tremendous advances in understanding the cellular mechanisms involved in sepsis and contributing to the development of multiple organ dysfunction and mortality in this setting. The chapters in this book provide up-to-date insights into important pathways that are initiated by sepsis.

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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (March 26, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 019923924X
ISBN-13: 978-0199239245.

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The Oxford Specialist Handbooks series provides readers with clear, concise information on all that is needed to successfully train in the medical sub-specialties. Each book gives an overview of clearly defined procedures, skills, guidelines, and technologies and provides practical tips and case studies to supplement hands-on experience. Where appropriate, each book complements the revised curriculum as developed by the Specialist Advisory Committees.

As palliative medicine does not have the resources to care for all patients with malignant and non-malignant chronic disease, government guidelines have pushed for its inclusion in the curriculum of most medical and surgical specialties. All specialties are being encouraged to become actively engaged in managing end of life care for their own patients.

End of life care in the ICU presents its own unique challenges, and this book highlights real clinical issues which need to be addressed if quality palliative care within ICUs is to be consistently delivered. It details strategies and evidence-based advice on the nature of effective palliative care in the ICU setting, dealing with issues such as diagnosing the dying, communicating with patients and families, the support of families and carers, multidisciplinary working, TPN and fluids, dialysis, inotropic support, autonomy, dignity, effective symptom control, practical ethics, and the process of decision making, management of dying, and bereavement care. This book is ideal for doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals working in the ICU and palliative care.

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Paperback: 546 pages
Publisher: pmph usa (April 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1550092111
ISBN-13: 978-1550092110.

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Manual of Neonatal Surgical Intensive Care provides practical management recommendations for the pre- and postoperative care of infants with surgical conditions. The book focuses on the nonoperative care of the infant with a surgical condition. This interdisciplinary care requires knowledge that has accumulated over the years, much of which is not recorded. As appropriate, chapters cover the embryology, incidence, prenatal diagnosis (treatment), postnatal presentation, postnatal diagnosis, differential diagnosis, preoperative management, implications for anesthesia, surgical management, postoperative management, and complications/outcomes.

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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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Paperback: 344 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (January 22, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540441492
ISBN-13: 978-3540441496.

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For many years, intensive care has focused on avoiding immediate death from acute, life-threatening conditions. However, there are increasing reports of a number of lingering consequences for those who do indeed survive intensive care. Examples include on-going high risk of death, neurocognitive defects, significant caregiver burden, and continued high healthcare costs. Surviving Intensive Care, written by the world’s experts in this area, is dedicated to better understanding the consequences of surviving intensive care and is intended to provide a synopsis of the current knowledge and a stimulus for future research and improved care of the critically ill.

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