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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The occurrence of deleterious or even fatal drug-drug interactions (DDIs) in the perioperative period is no longer a theoretical concern but a harrowing reality. A Case Approach to Perioperative Drug-Drug Interactions addresses the complex realm of pharmacokinetic drug interactions in an easy-to-read...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years much enthusiasm and energy has been directed toward the development of human gene therapies, especially for inherited conditions and cancers. However, current gene transfer technology is limited in its transduction efficiency and ability to permanently and safely correct genomic defects....
Surgical Metabolism
The Metabolic Care of the Surgical Patient
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This volume is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review for clinicians with an interest in the peri-operative nutritional management of all surgical patients. The text reviews normal physiology, the pathophysiology of starvation and surgical stressors, and focuses on appropriate nutritional repletion...
Acute Medicine
Uncommon Problems and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Uncommon problems tend to be overlooked; they are usually difficult to diagnose and a challenge to manage. Acute Medicine: Uncommon Problems and Challenges gathers together all uncommon problems relevant to the treatment of seriously ill patients in a quick one-stop reference. Each topic contains...
MEDICAL MALADY
Survival in a Minefield of Medical Mistakes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
He was in his Montreal apartment with a woman. He had made the apartment meticulously nut free. Nuts were a deadly poison to him, he was anaphylactic. The woman knew it. They were drinking wine. Then it happened. Suspecting the worst, he jabbed himself with EpiPen, an antidote, and rushed to the ER...
by Robert J. Vissers, MD, Michael A. Gibbs
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, edited by Drs. Robert Vissers and Michael Gibbs, focuses on Pulmonary Emergencies. Articles include: Approach to the Adult Patient with Acute Dyspnea,Approach to the Pediatric Patient with Acute Dyspnea,Advances in Pulmonary Imaging,Respiratory Monitoring,Management...
Neonatal Pulmonary Graphics
A Clinical Pocket Atlas
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
This pocket atlas explains how to use pulmonary graphics as a valuable adjunct for patient management. Actual patterns commonly encountered in neonatal practice are presented side-by-side with schematic illustrations that take apart the graphic and identify its key features, accompanied by brief...
Clinical Neurophysiology in Disorders of Consciousness
Brain Function Monitoring in the ICU and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Over the past two decades, electrophysiology has undergone unprecedented changes thanks to technical improvements, which simplify measurement and analysis and allow more compact data storage. This book covers in detail the spectrum of electrophysiology applications in patients with disorders of consciousness....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book presents a comprehensive survey in which internationally recognized experts discuss specific topics. Physiological and biophysical foundations of hemodynamics are reviewed and clinical tools to evaluate these newer parameters are described. Monitoring strategies integrating theoretical and...
Cellular Engineering and Cellular Therapies
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Symposium on Blood Transfusion, Groningen, Organized by the Sanquin Division Blood Bank North-East, Groningen
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Welcome to the City of Groningen, the center of the North of the Netherlands. Groningen is proud of the long lasting tradition of scientific symposia organised by the Sanquin Blood Bank. These Sanquin International Symposia on Blood Transfusion have become a true traditional event in Groningen, marking...
Quality Management in Intensive Care
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This book is one of the first to comprehensively summarise the latest thinking and research in the rapidly evolving field of quality management in intensive care. Quality indicators and outcome measures are discussed with a practical focus on patient-centred, evidence-based implementation for safer...
Atlas of Airway Management
Techniques and Tools
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Successful airway management demands strict attention to anatomic detail and the ability to tailor management strategies to each patient’s illness and presentation. With the Atlas of Airway Management, readers will discover a clinically focused, abundantly illustrated guide to relevant anatomy,...
by Brian A. Hall, MD, Robert C. Chantigian
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Lead editor of Braunwald’s Heart Disease, Dr. Douglas L. Mann, and nationally and internationally recognized heart failure expert Dr. G. Michael Felker, bring you the latest, definitive state-of-the art information on heart failure in this outstanding Braunwald’s companion volume. Heart Failure,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
The hemodynamic evaluation of patients with acute circulatory failure and respiratory failure has in the past usually been performed using invasive procedures but in recent years less invasive monitoring devices have been introduced. Echocardiography can be used for both the diagnosis and the management...