Key Topics in Management of the Critically Ill

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Vizcaychipi, Marcela P. (Editor), Corredor, Carlos M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Emergency medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Emergency Medicine.

This book is designed to assist clinicians who are new to intensive care by providing information on a range of important and novel topics of relevance in the day-to-day management of critically ill patients. Guidance is given on the appropriate response to various emergencies and circumstances, inc...

Table of Contents:

• Simulation Training in the Intensive Care Unit
• Assessment and management of the delirious patient in the Intensive Care Unit
• Management of stroke in a non neuro-intensive care unit
• Neuropsychological Rehabilitation for Critically Ill Patients
• Pain in Intensive Care
• Regional Anaesthesia in the Intensive Care Unit
• Dynamic Assessment of the Heart-Echocardiography in the Intensive Care Unit
• The Role of Lung Ultrasound on the Daily Assessment of the Critically Ill Patient
• Acute Liver Failure: Diagnosis and Management for the General Intensive Care
• The Initial Surgical Management of the Critically Ill Burn Patient
• The Critically Ill Burn Patient - How do we get it right?
• Venous Thromboembolism Prevention and the Role of Non-Coumarin Oral Anticoagulants in the Intensive Care Units
• Magnesium and Cell Membrane Stability in the Critically Ill Patient
• Transfer of the Sickest Patient in the Hospital: When, How and by Whom.