Full Description
The fully revised, fourth edition of this bestselling Oxford Handbook describes best practice of critical care in a succinct, concise and clinically-orientated way. Covering the principles of general management, it includes therapeutic and monitoring devices, specific disorders of organ systems, as well as detailed information on drugs and fluids. New material has been added on key areas such as airway maintenance, dressing techniques, infection control, echocardiography, tissue perfusion monitoring, coma and more. With up-to-date references and invaluable clinical advice, there is also plenty of space to add notes or amend sections to suit local protocols.
Patient-centred and practical, it will serve the consultant, trainee, nurse, or other allied health professionals as both a reference and aide memoir. This is the indispensable Oxford Handbook for all those working within critical care.
Contents
1: Organisation & management
2: Critical care scoring systems
3: Respiratory therapy techniques
4: Cardiovascular therapy techniques
5: Renal & blood therapy techniques
6: Gastrointestinal therapy techniques
7: Nutrition
8: Wound and pressure area management
9: Respiratory monitoring
10: Cardiovascular monitoring
11: Neurological monitoring
12: Laboratory & point of care monitoring
13: Fluids
14: Respiratory drugs
15: Cardiovascular drugs
16: Gastrointestinal drugs
17: Neurological drugs
18: Haematological drugs
19: Antimicrobial drugs
20: Immunological drugs
21: Resuscitation
22: Respiratory disorders
23: Cardiovascular disorders
24: Renal disorders
25: Gastrointestinal disorders
26: Hepatopancreatobiliary disorders
27: Neurological disorders
28: Haematological disorders
29: Metabolic and endocrine disorders
30: Poisoning
31: Infection, sepsis & inflammation
32: Trauma and burns
33: Disorders of temperature
34: Pain & peri-operative critical care
35: Oncological critical care
36: Obstetric emergencies
37: Transport of the critically ill
38: End of life care
