Practical Approach to Pediatric Intensive Care - Hardcover

Khilnani, Praveen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340905824 ISBN 13: 9780340905821

Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

This comprehensive textbook covers all aspects in the management of the critically ill infant or child. Adopting a practical approach throughout, the book takes the reader through the intensive care management of common paediatric emergencies, including cardiorespiratory arrest, shock, coma, respiratory distress, cardiac failure, renal, hepatic and multi-organ failure, poisoning, multiple trauma, heat and electrical injuries and life-threatening infections. Frequently performed emergency procedures such as endotracheal intubation, intraosseous line placement, arterial and central venous line placement, chest tube insertion, bronchoscopy, thoracoscopy and pericardial drainage are discussed in detail. The book also considers all aspects of assisted ventilation, central to critical care, including the care of the ventilated patient, non-invasive ventilation, nitric oxide and surfactant therapies and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Guidelines for running existing, and setting up, new pediatric intensive care facilities, admission and discharge criteria, quality issues, infection control, sedation, transport of critically ill children, end of life care, training and basic research complete the comprehensive coverage. The text is supported throughout with explanatory line diagrams and photographs.

About this title

About the Author

Praveen Khilnani MD FAAP FCCM(USA), Senior Consultant, Pediatric Intensivist and Pulmonologist, Apollo Centre for Advanced Pediatrics, IP Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, India

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340905824
• ISBN 13: 9780340905821
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 826