Data Interpretation in Critical Care Medicine

Author: Bala Venkatesh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750652735
Category : Clinical chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The management of critically ill patients not only involves a thorough daily review of investigations and monitoring. A detailed knowledge and understanding of data is crucial in the day-to-day management of patients in intensive care. With over 100 data sets composed of a brief history, relevant clinical findings, investigation and monitoring results, Venkatesh provides a source of real clinical data, with questions and answers, enabling you to tet and develop your interpretation skills. Answers with explanations follow each question, providing instant access to the correct interpretation and additional information to enhance the readers understanding. Important review for anesthesia and critical care personnel who need to know this information for practice or for exams.

Core Topics in Critical Care Medicine

Author: Fang Gao Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139489682
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 409

Book Description
The critical care unit manages patients with a vast range of disease and injuries affecting every organ system. The unit can initially be a daunting environment, with complex monitoring equipment producing large volumes of clinical data. Core Topics in Critical Care Medicine is a practical, comprehensive, introductory-level text for any clinician in their first few months in the critical care unit. It guides clinicians in both the initial assessment and the clinical management of all CCU patients, demystifying the critical care unit and providing key knowledge in a concise and accessible manner. The full spectrum of disorders likely to be encountered in critical care are discussed, with additional chapters on transfer and admission, imaging in the CCU, structure and organisation of the unit, and ethical and legal issues. Written by Critical Care experts, Core Topics in Critical Care Medicine provides comprehensive, concise and easily accessible information for all trainees.

Examination Intensive Care Medicine 2e - eBook

Author: Carole Foot
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 072957962X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 367

Book Description
This is a high quality exam-focused resource to facilitate passage through ICU fellowship examinations. There is currently no specific competing publication that specifically meets the goals of an examination guide for ICM trainees. This book covers the key components of the exam syllabuses for FCICM, EDIC and DICM, and builds on the ICM component of the previous edition, Examination Intensive Care and Anaesthesia. The book deals with all elements of the individual clinical examinations including performance strategies and provides a chapter on paediatric intensive care. The book is suitable for all trainees in Intensive Care Medicine. Trainees in Anaesthesia, Emergency Medicine, Surgery and Medicine will also find it useful. The print edition includes an accompanying interactive DVD which contains a wealth of supplementary material including a procedures and equipment library, case based scenarios to aid recall of important facts and a summary of important critical care literature

Clinical Data Interpretation in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Author: Stephen Bonner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780443064531
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
This new resource explains how to interpret the data encountered in everyday practice, such as in X-rays or coronary angiograms, and how to use them to formulate a diagnosis. Real-world examples in data interpretation prepare readers for the OSCE paper in the primary exam, and for the structured vivas in the final exam for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. Emphasizes the type of data that anaesthetists encounter in general anaesthesia, the respiratory system, cardiology, orthopaedics and trauma, intensive care, paediatrics, pain, obstetrics, and neurosurgery. Presents questions with complete answers.

Adult Critical Care Medicine

Author: Jennifer A. LaRosa
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331994424X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
This clinical casebook provides a comprehensive yet concise state-of-the-art review of adult critical care medicine. Presented in a case-based format, each case focuses on a scenario commonly encountered with an adult patient in the ICU. Case scenarios include management of seizures and acute intracranial hypertension, sepsis, liver failure, brain death, bleeding and thrombosis, and treating hospital acquired infections in the ICU. Written by experts in the field, Adult Critical Care Medicine: A Clinical Casebook is a valuable resource for critical care specialists and practitioners who treat adult patients in critical care settings.

Intensive Care Medicine

Author: Jean-Louis Vincent
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387495177
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1040

Book Description
This reference book compiles the most recent developments in experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive edition. 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.

Intensive Care Medicine

Author: Ned Gilbert-Kawai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108984428
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 839

Book Description
A handbook covering all of the essential topics in Intensive Care Medicine, for those training and practising in the specialty.

Critical Care Medicine Review: 1000 Questions and Answers

Author: Abraham Sonny
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 1975103084
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1400

Book Description
Covering all four critical care board exams (anesthesiology, surgery, internal medicine, and neurology), Critical Care Medicine Review: 1000 Questions and Answers prepares you for exam success as well as clinical practice in today’s ICU. This full-color, easy-to-use review tool provides challenging case studies, relevant images, multiple-choice board-style questions, rationales for correct and incorrect answers, and references for every question. Edited by instructors of anesthesia and critical care from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, this comprehensive resource is an ideal study guide for critical care fellows, recertifying practitioners, and CCRNs.

The Washington Manual of Critical Care

Author: Marin Kollef
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 1451180497
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 680

Book Description
The Washington Manual of Critical Care is a concise pocket manual for physicians and nurses. It is distinguished from the multitude of other critical care handbooks on the market by its consistent presentation of algorithms displaying the decision-making pathways used in evaluating and treating disorders in the ICU. The new edition transitions to a full color format and will include coverage of Deep Venous Thrombosis/Pulmonary Embolism, fetal-maternal critical care, C difficile infection, and alternative hemodynamic monitoring.

Secondary Analysis of Electronic Health Records

Author: MIT Critical Data
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319437429
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 435

Book Description
This book trains the next generation of scientists representing different disciplines to leverage the data generated during routine patient care. It formulates a more complete lexicon of evidence-based recommendations and support shared, ethical decision making by doctors with their patients. Diagnostic and therapeutic technologies continue to evolve rapidly, and both individual practitioners and clinical teams face increasingly complex ethical decisions. Unfortunately, the current state of medical knowledge does not provide the guidance to make the majority of clinical decisions on the basis of evidence. The present research infrastructure is inefficient and frequently produces unreliable results that cannot be replicated. Even randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the traditional gold standards of the research reliability hierarchy, are not without limitations. They can be costly, labor intensive, and slow, and can return results that are seldom generalizable to every patient population. Furthermore, many pertinent but unresolved clinical and medical systems issues do not seem to have attracted the interest of the research enterprise, which has come to focus instead on cellular and molecular investigations and single-agent (e.g., a drug or device) effects. For clinicians, the end result is a bit of a “data desert” when it comes to making decisions. The new research infrastructure proposed in this book will help the medical profession to make ethically sound and well informed decisions for their patients.