Intensive Care Unit in Disaster,An Issue of Critical Care Clinics (Volume 35-4) (The Clinics: Internal Medicine (Volume 35-4))

ISBN 10: 0323683916 / ISBN 13: 9780323683913

Published by Elsevier, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Intensive Care Unit in Disaster,An Issue of Critical Care Clinics (Volume 35-4) (The Clinics: Internal Medicine (Volume 35-4))
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323683916
• ISBN 13: 9780323683913
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Marie Baldisseri, Mary Reed, and Randy Wax, in collaboration with Consulting Editor John Kellum, is devoted to Intensive Care Unit in Disaster. Topics in this issue include: Intensive care role in disaster management; Preparing the ICU for disaster; Augmenting capacity; Triage; Natural disasters; Biological/pandemic disasters; Chemical disasters; Radiation; Anthropogenic (terrorist/criminal act) disasters; Special populations (i.e., chronically ill, morbidly obese, pregnant); Pediatrics; Austere environments; Hospital as disaster Ground Zero; and Special considerations (i.e., mental health, ethics, public relations).