Essential Guide to Acute Care

The principles of acute care are explained simply yet comprehensively. Throughout the book ‘mini–tutorials’ expand on the latest thinking or controversies, and practical case histories reinforce learning at the end of each chapter. The chapters are designed to be read by individuals or used for group tutorials in acute care.
Extensively rewritten and updated, this second edition is essential reading for anyone who looks after acutely ill adults, including:

Foundation Programme trainees and trainers
Trainees in medicine, surgery, anaesthesia and emergency medicine
Final year medical students
Nursing staff and allied professionals working in critical care

Spis treści:
Forewrod.
Introduction.
Acknowledgements.
Units used in this book.
1 Patients at risk.
2 Oxygen therapy.
3 Acid–base balance.
4 Respiratory failure.
5 Fluid balance and volume resuscitation.
6 Sepsis.
7 Acute renal failure.
8 Brain failure.
9 Optimising patients before surgery.
10 Pain control and sedation.
Appendix – Practical procedures.
Index

Nota biograficzna:
Dr Nicola Cooper, MRCP, Specialist Registrar in General Internal Medicine and Care of the Elderly, Yorkshire, UK
Dr Kirsty Forrest, FRCA, Consultant in Anaesthesia, The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Yorkshire, UK
Dr Paul Cramp, MRCP FRCA, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Yorkshire, UK

Okładka tylna:
The principles of acute care are explained simply yet comprehensively. Throughout the book ‘mini–tutorials’ expand on the latest thinking or controversies, and practical case histories reinforce learning at the end of each chapter. The chapters are designed to be read by individuals or used for group tutorials in acute care.
Extensively rewritten and updated , this second edition is essential reading for anyone who looks after acutely ill adults, including:

Foundation Programme trainees and trainers
Trainees in medicine, surgery, anaesthesia and emergency medicine
Final year medical students
Nursing staff and allied professionals working in critical care