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By Jonathan M. Handy, Bala Venkatesh
Key Features
- Balances information on management and treatment of conditions with essential pathophysiological and pharmacological background—all with an increased focus on clinical management strategies to optimise patient outcomes
- Offers authoritative treatment guidelines covering both adult and paediatric patients in the ICU
- Discusses the latest developments in such areas as ARDS, sepsis, neurological disorders, and morbid obesity
- Provides an increased number of summary boxes, tables, and charts to facilitate quick retrieval of essential information
- Contains new sections on Decision Making, Special Populations, The Post-Operative Patient, and more.
- Includes numerous new chapters: Allied health professionals in ICU; Clinical assessment of the critically ill patient; Determination of death in ICU; Mechanical cardiac supports; Acute aortic syndrome; Overview of respiratory failure in ICU; COVID-19; Neuromonitoring; Pre-operative assessment of high-risk patient; Post-operative thoracic surgical patient; Post-operative neuro-surgical patient; Principles of organ procurement and donation; and more
- Shares the knowledge and global expertise of a “who’s who” of international specialist ICU Consultants, including new editor Professor Bala Venkatesh, Universities of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia
- Provides an extensive list of important, up-to-date references
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