1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910449771503321

Autore

Murray John F (John Frederic), <1927->

Titolo

Intensive care [[electronic resource] ] : a doctor's journal / / John F. Murray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2000

ISBN

1-282-35689-5

0-520-92902-0

9786612356896

1-59734-681-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Disciplina

362.1/74

Soggetti

Intensive care units

Critical care medicine

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Day 1. Thursday -- Day 2. Friday -- Day 3. Saturday -- Day 4. Sunday -- Day 5. Monday -- Day 6. Tuesday -- Day 7. Wednesday -- Day 8. Thursday -- Day 9. Friday -- Day 10. Saturday -- Day 11. Sunday -- Day 12. Monday -- Day 13. Tuesday -- Day 14. Wednesday -- Day 15. Thursday -- Day 16. Friday -- Day 17. Saturday -- Day 18. Sunday -- Day 19. Monday -- Day 20. Tuesday -- Day 21. Wednesday -- Day 22. Thursday -- Day 23. Friday -- Day 24. Saturday -- Day 25. Sunday -- Day 26. Monday -- Day 27. Tuesday -- Day 28. Wednesday -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Intensive Care is an affecting view from the trenches, a seasoned doctor's minute-by-minute and day-by-day account of life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a major inner-city hospital, San Francisco General. John F. Murray, for many years Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division of the hospital and a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, takes readers on his daily ward rounds, introducing them to the desperately ill patients he treats as well as to the young physicians and medical students who accompany him.



Writing with compassion and knowledge accumulated over a long career, Murray presents the true stories of patients who show up with myriad disorders: asthma, cardiac failure, gastrointestinal diseases, complications due to AIDS, the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, emphysema. Readers will come away from this book with a comprehensive understanding of what an ICU is, what it does, who gets admitted, and how doctors and nurses make decisions concerning life-threatening medical problems. Intensive care for critically ill patients is a new but well-established and growing branch of medicine. Estimates suggest that 15 to 20 percent of all hospitalized patients in the United States are treated in an intensive or coronary care unit during each hospital stay, so there is a real possibility that the reader will either be admitted to an ICU himself or herself or knows someone who will be. Murray not only offers a real-time account of the diagnosis, treatment, and progress of his patients over the course of one month but also conveys a wealth of information about various diseases and medical procedures in succinct and easy-to-understand terms. In addition, he elaborates on ethical dilemmas that he confronts on an almost daily basis: the extent of patient autonomy, the denial of ICU care, the withdrawal of life support, and physician-assisted suicide. Murray concludes that ICUs are doing their job, but they could be even better, cheaper, and--most important--more humane. His chronicle brings substance to a world known to most of us only through the fiction of television.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910159435703321

Titolo

Advances in quantum field theories research / / Elmer Morrison, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hauppauge, New York : , : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-63485-714-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (116 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Classical and quantum mechanics

Disciplina

530.14/3

Soggetti

Quantum field theory

Heisenberg uncertainty principle

Graphene

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Studies on quantum field theory, including a study based on the physics of graphene.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810032903321

Autore

Metge Bernat <approximately 1350-approximately 1410.>

Titolo

The book of fortune and prudence / / Bernat Metge ; translated into English and Spanish with an introduction and notes by Antonio Cortijo Ocaña and Vicent Martines

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

90-272-7105-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (122 p.)

Collana

IVITRA research in linguistics and literature : studies, editions and translations ; ; volume 6

Altri autori (Persone)

Cortijo OcañaAntonio

MartinesVicent <1965->

Disciplina

849/.912

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Book of Fortune and Prudence; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Bernat Metge (1340/1346-1413); Bernat Metge's works; Lo Somni; Llibre de Fortuna e Prudència (MSS copies and Summary of Content); Literary sources; Final considerations; Selected bibliography; Translators note; El Llibre de Fortuna e Prudència / Book of Fortune and Prudence; Index

Sommario/riassunto

These new translations of Bernat Metge's Libre de Fortuna e Prudència (1381) into Spanish (verse) and English (prose) make this key early work by 14th-century Catalonia's most challenging writer available to the wider audience it has longed deserved. As with Metge's masterwork, Lo somni (The Dream), recently translated by Cortijo Ocaña and Elisabeth Lagresa (Benjamins, 2013), the writing of The Book of Fortune and Prudence seems to have been precipitated by a larger crisis in Catalan society, in this case, an all-too-familiar-sounding banking crisis. Drawing on sources ranging fr