Critical Care Management of the Obese Patient.

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: El Solh, Ali
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
• Θέματα: Critical care medicine.; Obesity > Complications.; Comorbidity.; Critical care > Methods.; Critical illness.; Obesity > Physiopathology.; Medicine.; MEDICAL > Endocrinology & Metabolism.; MEDICAL > Nutrition.; Critical Care > methods.; Critical Illness.; Obesity > complications.; Obesity > physiopathology.; Electronic books.

 This book provides health professionals with sound clinical advice on management of the obese patient admitted into hospital. It addresses all aspects of the patient's care, as well as serving as a resource to facilitate the management of services, use of clinical information, and negotiation of ethical issues that occur in intensive care. As the number of obese patients in intensive care continues to grow, this book will serve as a comprehensive clinical resource for everyday use by both obesity specialists and emergency medicine physicians. 

 CRITICAL CARE MANAGEMENT OF The Obese Patient; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Part I Physiology and Consequences of Obesity; 1 Cardiovascular Physiology in Obesity; 2 Effects of Obesity on Respiratory Physiology; 3 Gastrointestinal Physiology in Obesity; 4 Metabolic and Endocrine Physiology in Obesity; 5 Renal Physiology in the Critically Ill Obese Patient; Part II Positive Pressure Ventilation; 6 Sedation, Paralysis, and Pain Management of the Critically Ill Obese Patient; 7 Upper Airway Management in the Morbidly Obese Patient; 8 Mechanical Ventilation of the Obese Patient.