Reducing Mortality in Critically Ill Patients

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Landoni, Giovanni (Editor), Mucchetti, Marta (Editor), Zangrillo, Alberto (Editor), Bellomo, Rinaldo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Emergency medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Cardiology.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Emergency Medicine.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.

This book describes the techniques, strategies, and drugs that have been demonstrated by multicenter randomized trials to influence survival in critically ill patients, defined as those who have acute failure of at least one organ, due to either a pathological condition or a medical intervention, an...