(Ebook) Acute and critical care medicine at a glance 3rd Edition by Leach, Richard ISBN 978-1118302767 1118302767

(Ebook) Acute and critical care medicine at a glance 3rd Edition by Leach, Richard ISBN 978-1118302767 1118302767

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ISBN 10: 1118302767

ISBN 13: 978-1118302767

Author: M.D. Leach, Richard 
Critical Care Medicine at a Glance is an accessible introduction and revision text for junior clinicians. Fully revised and updated to reflect changes to the content and assessment methods used by medical schools and postgraduate training programmes, this at a Glance provides a user-friendly overview of critical care medicine to encapsulate all that the student needs to know.

This new edition of Critical Care Medicine at a Glance:

• Is fully revised and updated to increase coverage of a rapidly expanding area of medicine
• Provides a simple and straightforward, yet rapid, introduction to the care of the acutely ill
• Features new 'Pearls of Wisdom', to aid learning and understanding
• Includes an appendix of top nutrition tips from the Royal College of Physicians
• Provides increased coverage of neurological emergencies, acute and abdominal emergencies, arrhythmias, imaging and fluid management

Critical Care Medicine at a Glance is ideal for medical students, junior doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals expected to acquire the skills and knowledge needed to care for acutely ill patients.

Table of contents: 

1. Preface
2. Acknowledgements
3. Units, symbols and abbreviations

General
4. Recognizing the unwell patient
5. Admission and ongoing management of the acutely unwell patient
6. Monitoring in acute and critical care medicine
7. Oxygen transport
8. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
9. Shock
10. Circulatory assessment
11. Fluid management
12. Fluid choice: specific situations
13. Inotropes and vasopressors
14. Failure of oxygenation and respiratory failure
15. Oxygenation and oxygen therapy
16. Airways obstruction and management
17. Non-invasive ventilation
18. Endotracheal intubation
19. Mechanical ventilation
20. Respiratory management, weaning and tracheostomy
21. Arterial blood gases and acid-base balance
22. Analgesia, sedation and paralysis
23. Enteral and parenteral nutrition
24. Hypothermia and hyperthermia
25. SIRS, sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock
26. Hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infections
27. End of life issues

Medical

Cardiac
28. Acute coronary syndromes I: clinical pathophysiology
29. Acute coronary syndromes II: investigations and management
30. Arrhythmias
31. Heart failure and pulmonary oedema
32. Cardiac emergencies
33. Deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism

Respiratory
34. Community-acquired pneumonia
35. Hospital-acquired (nosocomial) pneumonia
36. Asthma
37. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
38. Acute respiratory distress syndrome
39. Pneumothorax and air leaks
40. Respiratory emergencies

Renal and metabolic
41. Acute kidney injury: pathophysiology and clinical aspects
42. Acute kidney injury: management and renal replacement therapy
43. Diabetic emergencies
44. Endocrine emergencies

Gastrointestinal
45. Gastrointestinal haemorrhage
46. Acute liver failure
47. Acute pancreatitis

Neurological
48. Acute confusional state, coma and status epilepticus
49. Neurological emergencies: cerebrovascular accidents
50. Neurological emergencies: infective
51. Neuromuscular conditions

Other systems
52. Coagulation disorders and transfusion
53. Drug overdose and poisoning
54. The immune compromised patient

Surgical
55. Trauma
56. Head injury
57. Chest trauma
58. Acute abdominal emergencies
59. Obstetric emergencies
60. Burns, toxic inhalation and electrical injuries

Self-assessment
61. Case studies and questions
62. Case studies answers

Appendices
63. Appendix I: Classification of antiarrhythmic drugs
64. Appendix II: Acute injury network staging system 2008 for acute kidney injury
65. Appendix III: Rockall risk-scoring system for GI bleeds
66. Appendix IV: Child-Pugh grading
67. Appendix V: Typical criteria for liver transplantation

68. Index

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