Full Description
Dr. Pyrsopoulos has assembled the top authors in the field to provide current reviews on acute liver failure, to be the first time this topic is addressed in one volume. Topics are devoted to Classification and Epidemiologic Aspects of Acute Liver Failure; Acute Liver Failure: Mechanisms of disease and multi-systemic involvement; The Pathology of Acute Liver Failure; Liver Regeneration in the Acute Liver Failure Patient; Viral Hepatitis and Acute Liver Failure: Still a Problem; Drug- induced Liver Injury and Acute Liver Failure; Acetaminophen and Acute Liver Failure; Non-Viral Or Drug-Induced Etiologies of Acute Liver Failure; The Clinical Spectrum and Manifestations of Acute Liver Failure; Non ICU Management of Acute Liver Failure; Management of Acute Liver Failure in the ICU Setting; Prognostic Models of Acute Liver Failure; The Role of Liver Transplantation in Acute Liver Failure; and Future Approaches and Therapeutic Modalities for Acute Liver Failure. Readers will come away with a current point of view about how to approach and manage the patient with acute liver failure.
Contents
Pediatric Emergency Medicine - Contents
Foreword: Pediatric Emergencies
Preface: Pediatric Emergencies: The Common and the Critical
Section 1: Common
Evaluation and Management of Dehydration in Children
Bronchiolitis: From Practice Guideline to Clinical Practice
Pediatric Minor Head Injury 2.0: Moving from Injury Exclusion to Risk Stratification
Pediatric Syncope: High-Risk Conditions and Reasonable Approach
Pediatric Pain Management
What to Do when Babies Turn Blue: Beyond the Basic Brief Resolved Unexplained Event
Imaging Gently
Inborn Errors of Metabolism in the Emergency Department (Undiagnosed and Management of the Known)
Section 2: Critical
Pediatric Emergency Noninvasive Ventilation
Pediatric Ventilator Management in the Emergency Department
Postoperative Tonsillectomy Hemorrhage
Emergency Department Management of Pediatric Shock
Emergency Care of Pediatric Burns
Pediatric Major Head Injury: Not a Minor Problem
Pediatric Thoracic Trauma: Recognition and Management
