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

• Autore: Cooper Nicola
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Blackwell, 2006
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.02/8; 616.028
• Soggetto topico: Critical care medicine; Internal medicine
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ForrestKirsty CrampPaul
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Essential guide to acute care
• ISBN: 1-280-74875-3; 9786610748754; 0-470-76402-3; 0-470-75790-6; 1-4051-7230-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910143321103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II