Intensive Care Fundamentals: Practically Oriented Essential Knowledge for Newcomers to ICUs

Author:   František Duška ,  Mo Al-Haddad ,  Maurizio Cecconi
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
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9783031219931


Pages:   271
Publication Date:   16 February 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   František Duška ,  Mo Al-Haddad ,  Maurizio Cecconi
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.611kg
ISBN:  

9783031219931


ISBN 10:   3031219937
Pages:   271
Publication Date:   16 February 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part 1: Introduction.- Ch 1: How to use this book (Prof. Maurizio Cecconi, Dr František Duška, Dr Mo Al-Haddad).- Part 2: Key concepts in intensive care medicine.- Ch 2: Identification and Initial Stablization of Acutely Deteriorated Patients (Dr. Nicholas F. Parchim, Dr Nathan D. Nielsen).- Ch 3: ICU routines and bundles of care (Dr Anne Mecklenburg, Dr María Martinez Martinez, Dr Nathan D. Nielsen, Dr Sabrina Grossenbacher-Eggmann, Dr Carole Boulanger).- Ch 4: Intra-hospital transport (Dr Anne Mecklenburg).- Ch 5: Human factors and non-technical skills (Dr Rahul Costa-Pinto, Dr C Boullanger).- Ch 6: Approach to difficult decisions and end-of-life care (Dr Frauke Weidanz).- Part 3: Organ dysfunction and support.- Ch 7: Respiratory failure and respiratory support (Dr. Eumorfia Kondili, Dr Athanasia Proklou, Dr Georgos Prinianakis).- Ch 8: Shock and Haemodynamic Monitoring (Dr Mo Al-Haddad).- Ch 9: Disorders of consciousness (Dr Frauke Weidanz).- Ch 9: Internal environment and acid basebalance (Dr František Duška).- Ch 10: Acute Kidney Injury (Dr Mo Al-Haddad, Dr Karin Belch).- Ch 11: Sepsis and septic shock (Dr Anne Le Roy).- Part 4: Common challenges and troubleshooting in ICU.- Ch 12: Hypoxia and ventilator asynchronies (Dr. Eumorfia Kondili, Dr Maria Mpolaki).- Ch 13: Arrhythmias (Dr Katie Duncan, Dr Mo Al-Haddad).- Ch 14: Bleeding (Dr Nathan D. Nielsen).- Ch 15: Analgesia and Sedation (Dr Anne Mecklenburg, Dr Joana Berger-Estilita, Dr Ligia Pires).- Ch 16: Delirium, agitation and sleep disturbances (Dr Joana Berger-Estilita, Dr Ligia Pires).- Ch 17: Common Electrolyte Disturbances (Dr Niels Van Regenmortel, Dr František Duška).- Ch 18: Failure to wean from mechanical ventilation (Dr Anne Mecklenburg). Back Matter.- Appendix 1: ICU drug chart (Dr Milada Halačová, Dr Carole Boulanger).- Appendix 2: Useful checklists and algorhithms (Dr Anne Le Roy).- Appendix 3: ICU trainee survival guide (Dr. Gabriel Garcia Rosenbaum).

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Series EditorsProf. Maurizio Cecconi is Head of Department Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Units, IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano (MI), Italy and Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele (MI), Italy. His main fields of research are haemodynamic monitoring, haemodynamic optimisation and physiology of the critically ill patient. He has published extensively and has specific interest in haemodynamic monitoring and fluid management of the critically ill. Prof. Daniel De Backer is Professor of Intensive Care at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium Head of Intensive Care Departments of CHIREC Hospitals (Brussels and Braine l’Alleud-Waterloo). His main fields of investigation are severe sepsis, organ dysfunction, acute circulatory failure and its treatment (in particular vasoactive agents), haemodynamic monitoring, hepato-splanchnic circulation and microcirculatory disorders. Volume editors Frantisek Duska is a head of Intensive Care and associate professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at Charles University, Third Medical Faculty and FNKV University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic.  Mo Al-Haddad is a consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care and Honorary Professor of School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, University of Glasgow.  Mo has been an editor in chief of the ESICM Academy. Maurizio Ceccioni is the director of the Residency School of Anaesthesia at Humanitas University in Rozzano, Italy and Head of the Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Department at Humanitas Research Hospital. He is also the President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (2020-2022). 

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