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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143321103321

Autore

Cooper Nicola

Titolo

Essential guide to acute care [[electronic resource] /] / Nicola Cooper, Kirsty Forrest & Paul Cramp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Blackwell, 2006

ISBN

1-280-74875-3

9786610748754

0-470-76402-3

0-470-75790-6

1-4051-7230-4

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ForrestKirsty

CrampPaul

Disciplina

616.02/8

616.028

Soggetti

Critical care medicine

Internal medicine

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previous ed.: published as by Nicola Cooper and Paul Cramp. 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Essential Guide to Acute Care; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Units used in this book; Chapter 1 Patients at risk; Chapter 2 Oxygen therapy; Chapter 3 Acid-base balance; Chapter 4 Respiratory failure; Chapter 5 Fluid balance and volume resuscitation; Chapter 6 Sepsis; Chapter 7 Acute renal failure; Chapter 8 Brain failure; Chapter 9 Optimising patients before surgery; Chapter 10 Pain control and sedation; Appendix Practical procedures; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What you really need to know, but no one told you. The Essential Guide to Acute Care contains everything you really need to know about acute care that you can't find in a standard textbook and have probably never been taught before.  Starting with the concept of patients at risk, the Essential Guide to Acute Care explains how to recognise and manage the generic altered physiology that accompanies acute illness.  The principles of acute care are explained simply yet comprehensively.



Throughout the book 'mini-tutorials' expand on the latest thinking or cont