Pocket ICU (Pocket Notebook Series)

Frendl MD PhD, Gyorgy; Urman MD, Richard D.

ISBN 10: 1496358171 ISBN 13: 9781496358172

Publisher: LWW, 2017

Synopsis

Part of the popular Pocket Notebook Series, Pocket ICU, Second Edition provides concise, evidence-based information for critical care students, interns, residents, and professionals at all levels of experience. Now fully revised and up to date, this portable handbook can be used for quick, easy reference both in the wards and in the operating room.
Key Features:

• Provides fast access to the most relevant, evidence-based information in every area of critical care, including adult and pediatric critical care, neuro-critical care, cardiac critical care, and transplant, burn, and neonatal critical care.
• Includes a new chapter, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and Ventricular Assist Devices
Addresses special considerations for obese patients and older adults with critical illness
• Features an improved table of contents and index for faster access to essential information.
• Includes current contributions from leading critical care experts, as well as the most recent evidence available in the field.
• Uses a reader-friendly, bulleted outline format with numerous tables and diagrams throughout.

About this title

From the Author:

Our book Pocket ICU is intended to be a quick reference guide for all practitioners of critical care medicine (medical students, residents, nurses and ICU physicians of all sub-specialties). We recruited some of the best minds (clinicians and researchers) to create the most up-to-date and concise version of critical care guide. The structure of this book was significantly altered for the second edition to help the readers find the right content in an instant. This also facilitates its use in an electronic version.We cannot wait to hear your feedback to help us further improve the presentation of the most current knowledge of intensive care.

About the Author:

Dr. Frendl is an intensivist and anesthesiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, USA and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School.He is the director of Research for Surgical Critical Care. His research interest is focused on nosocomial infections, the mediators of and treatment strategies for sepsis and the models of care improvement in the ICU.

About this edition

• Publisher: LWW
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1496358171
• ISBN 13: 9781496358172
• Binding: Loose Leaf
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 412