ICU care of abdominal organ transplant patients [[electronic resource]] / edited by Ali Al-Khafaji

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463086003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, England ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2013
• ISBN: 0-19-935291-7; 0-19-998274-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Collana: Pittsburgh Critical Care Medicine Series
• Altri autori (Persone): Al-KhafajiAli
• Disciplina: 617.9/54028
• Soggetti: Liver - Surgery; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Contributors; Section 1 Intensive Care Unit Management of Patients with Decompensated Liver Disease; 1 Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis; 2 Hepatic Encephalopathy; 3 Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding; 4 Refractory Ascites and Hepatic Hydrothorax; 5 Acute Renal Failure Including Hepatorenal Syndrome; 6 Respiratory Failure in Patients With End-Stage Liver Disease; 7 Malnutrition in Chronic Liver Disease; Section 2 Transplantation; 8 General Principles of Immunosuppression; 9 Infectious Complications After Abdominal Solid Organ Transplant; 10 General Management of Patients in Intensive Care Unit11 Nursing Considerations; 12 Indications for Liver Transplantation; 13 An Approach to Anesthesia for Liver Transplantation; 14 Liver Transplant Surgical Techniques; 15 Graft Dysfunction and Technical Complications After Liver Transplant; 16 Kidney Transplantation; 17 Anesthesia Care for Kidney Transplant Recipients; 18 Kidney Transplantation-Surgical Techniques; 19 Pancreas Transplantation; 20 Anesthetic Management of Pancreatic Transplant Recipients; 21 Surgical Techniques of Pancreas Transplantation; 22 Islet Cell Transplantation; 23 Small Bowel and Multivisceral TransplantationIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: Pre- and post-operative care of transplant patients is an aspect of Critical Care Medicine in which most ICU physicians and nurses have received little or no formal training and are left to cope with this complex population with only incomplete ""on the job experience"" as a guide. In response to this clinical knowledge gap, ICU Care of Abdominal Organ Transplant Patients provides a concise at the bedside resource fo intensivists, surgeons, and nurses caring for abdominal organ transplant patients before and after surgery. In a concise, practical style, the authors offer concrete solutions to