Medical : Critical Care

This concise and easy to read handbook combines a balanced review of the latest knowledge, research and future developments in this area with practical guidance based on the authors' considerable personal experience of dementia care. more...

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This is a guide to best practice in residential care homes. John Burton uses his extensive experience as a care consultant and realistic case studies to analyze common problems and proposes models to help managers and their staff succeed. more...

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Der Mensch in der Akutmedizin: Risikofaktor oder Garant sicheren Handelns? Notflle und kritische Situationen gehren zum Alltag der Akutmedizin - ihre Vermeidung und sichere Beherrschung kann gelernt und trainiert werden. Das vorliegende Buch bietet als erstes deutschsprachiges Werk alle wesentlichen Grundlagen, Ursachenanalysen und gezielte Hilfestellungen: - Fehler und Fehlerursachen - Die Psychologie menschlichen Handelns - Menschliche Wahrnehmung  und Informationsverarbeitung - Einfluss von Stress und Mdigkeit - Kommunikation - Teamarbeit  - Fhrung - Organisation und Sicherheitskultur Das Autorenteam  - rzte und Psychologen  - haben hier ihre jahrelange Erfahrung im Notfallmanagement und in der Expertise auf dem Gebiet der Human-factor-Forschung zusammengetragen und praxisnah aufbereitet. Unentbehrliches  Wissen in  allen Notfallsituationen  fr rzte aller Fachrichtungen, Intensivpflege- und Rettungsdienstpersonal! more...

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Specialized units for critically ill children and infants are concentrated in the major hospitals. This guide covers the management of children in a critical condition who have been admitted to a general hospital and will need safe transfer to a special unit. more...

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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 specificcontext for the therapeutic treatment and management of a disease. more...

Price: $39.95