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Author:   Mitchell P. Fink ,  Peter M. Suter ,  William J. Sibbald
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2006 ed.
Volume:   43
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.780kg
ISBN:  

9783540260929

ISBN 10:   3540260927
Pages:   436
Publication Date:   29 September 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Setting the Stage.- Setting The Scene.- Managing and Leading in Critical Care.- Critical Care from 50,000 Feet.- Expectations Around Intensive Care — 10 Years On.- The Safety and Quality Agenda in Critical Care Medicine.- The Challenge of Emerging Infections and Progressive Antibiotic Resistance.- Technology Assessment.- Trends in Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care in the Next 10 Years.- Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Information Technologies 10 Years from Now.- The Patient Process as the Basis for the Design of an ICU.- Information Technology.- Diagnostic Technologies to Assess Tissue Perfusion and Cardiorespiratory Performance.- Microcirculatory Distress in Critically Ill Patients: Meaning and Future.- Managing Infection: From Agar Plate to Genome Scan.- Immunological Monitoring, Functional Genomics and Proteomics.- Improving Organ Function.- The Profile and Management of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- The Ventilator of Tomorrow.- My NeuroICU 10 Years from Now.- Disaster Medicine.- How Might Critical Care Medicine be Organized and Regulated?.- Hospital and Medical School Organization of Critical Care Services.- Physician Staffing in the ICU 10 Years from Now.- ICU Research— One Decade From Now.- Organizing Clinical Critical Care Research and Implementing the Results.- Funding and Accounting Systems.- Measuring Performance.- Ethics and End-of-life Care.- Rationing in the ICU: Fear, Fiction and Fact.- Training.- Training Pathways—Physician and Non—Physician.- Simulation Training in Critical Care Medicine.- The Critical Care ‘Agenda’.- The Agenda for the Intensivist.- Transforming Adult Critical Care Service Delivery in Ontario.

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From the reviews: Critical care is distinguished by the absolute need for its clinical leaders to understand and practice interdisciplinary teamwork a ] . This is a ] a book that may facilitate or help initiate a planning process for leaders who recognize the imperative for change and adaptation in critical care. Accordingly, I recommend this book to individuals and groups engaged in all aspects of critical care. Accordingly, I recommend this book to individuals and groups engaged in all aspects of critical care management, now and in the future. (J. Christopher Farmer, Respiratory Care, Vol. 52 (3), 2007) From the reviews: Critical care is distinguished by the absolute need for its clinical leaders to understand and practice interdisciplinary teamwork ??? . This is ??? a book that may facilitate or help initiate a planning process for leaders who recognize the imperative for change and adaptation in critical care. Accordingly, I recommend this book to individuals and groups engaged in all aspects of critical care. Accordingly, I recommend this book to individuals and groups engaged in all aspects of critical care management, now and in the future. (J. Christopher Farmer, Respiratory Care, Vol. 52 (3), 2007)

From the reviews: <p> Critical care is distinguished by the absolute need for its clinical leaders to understand and practice interdisciplinary teamwork a ] . This is a ] a book that may facilitate or help initiate a planning process for leaders who recognize the imperative for change and adaptation in critical care. Accordingly, I recommend this book to individuals and groups engaged in all aspects of critical care. Accordingly, I recommend this book to individuals and groups engaged in all aspects of critical care management, now and in the future. (J. Christopher Farmer, Respiratory Care, Vol. 52 (3), 2007)

From the reviews: Critical care is distinguished by the absolute need for its clinical leaders to understand and practice interdisciplinary teamwork a ] . This is a ] a book that may facilitate or help initiate a planning process for leaders who recognize the imperative for change and adaptation in critical care. Accordingly, I recommend this book to individuals and groups engaged in all aspects of critical care. Accordingly, I recommend this book to individuals and groups engaged in all aspects of critical care management, now and in the future. (J. Christopher Farmer, Respiratory Care, Vol. 52 (3), 2007)

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