Description
Book SynopsisRecent Advances in Critical Care - 1 features a collection of in-depth reviews of the latest developments in the field. Written in an accessible format and featuring such topics as trauma coagulopathy, renal replacement therapy and the use of focussed transthoracic echocardiography in haemodynamic assessment, each chapter provides a comprehensive overview and emphasises points of interest. This first volume in the series is an invaluable resource for busy clinicians.
Key points
- 12 chapters summarising important recent advances within the field of critical care.
- All topics are written in a practical and clinically relevant manner, further enhanced by the ‘Key Points for Clinical Practice’ section at the end of each chapter
- All chapters are written by expert authors ensuring authoritative and accurate content
- Full colour photographs throughout
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Advances in respiratory support
Peter Macnaughton
Chapter 2 Trauma-induced coagulopathy
Mark Burgess, Karim Brohi
Chapter 3 Prognostication following cardiac arrest
Matthew Thomas, Nick Kane
Chapter 4 Nutrition in critical care – the last 10 years
William Woodward
Chapter 5 Candida infection in non-neutropenic critical care patients: current difficulties and future developments in diagnosis and risk stratification
William A English, Elizabeth M Johnson
Chapter 6 Renal replacement therapy
Alex Harrison
Chapter 7 Clinical epidemiology and management of viral
pneumonia
Jonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam, Kevin Rooney
Chapter 8 Thoracic ultrasonography
David Ashton-Cleary
Chapter 9 Re-establishing heart transplantation: donation after circulatory death
Stephen Large, Simon Messer, Aravinda Page
Chapter 10 Management of the adult congenital heart disease patient in general critical care
Sebastian Brown, Haslan Ghazali, Peter Murphy
Chapter 11 Transthoracic echocardiography in haemodynamic assessment
Ray Sinclair, Barnaby Scrace
Chapter 12 Poisonings: old favourites and novel designer drugs
Gemma Dignam, Colin Bigham
