Oxford Desk Reference Critical Care Neil Soni Andy Rhodes Carl Waldmann by Neil Soni; Andy Rhodes; Carl Waldmann 9780199229581, 0199229589 instant download after payment.

Intensive care medicine is an evolving speciality in which the amount of available information is growing daily and increasingly, textbooks refl ect this in terms of their size. Size and immediate clinical utility are often inversely related and ‘bottom line’ practicality is drowned in comprehensive discussion. The natural habitat of this new textbook of critical care and emergency medicine is on the desktops of Intensive Care units, High Dependency units, acute medical or surgical wards, Accident & Emergency departments and maybe even operating theatres where it is easily accessible with useful and relevant information. While aimed primarily at a specialist readership including clinicians, nurses, and other allied health professionals in Critical Care, Anaesthesia and the acute specialities, we hope it will fi nd a niche with anyone involved in care of the critically ill, whether in specialist areas or in the wards. It is intended that the key feature of this book is ease of access to up-to-date relevant evidenced-based information regarding the management of commonly encountered conditions, techniques, and problems in those who are critically ill. Most importantly that it is practical and useful. The content of the book is based, wherever possible and useful, upon the latest sets of guidelines from national or international bodies (e.g. Society of Critical Care Medicine, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine). We hope the book will be useful not only in the United Kingdom, but to anyone using international guidelines. Indeed, the range of invited authors incorporates a large number of countries but for all, the common theme is management of the critically ill. To facilitate the key aim of rapid and easy access to information, the book is designed such that each subject will form a self-contained topic in its own right, laid out across two (or, for larger subjects, up to four) pages. This format facilitates the use of the book as a desk reference …