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Main description:
This handbook is a synopsis of the clinical chapters from Rogers' Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care, Fourth Edition. Readers will find the core information they need for quick reference and safe practice in the pediatric ICU. The book includes a large number of tables and line drawings.
Contents:
SECTION HEADINGS
PART ONE EMERGENCY CARE AND ACUTE MANAGEMENT
- CH.1 Airway Management
- CH.2 Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- CH.3 Transport
- CH.4 Invasive Procedures
- CH.5 Recognition and Initial Management of Shock
- CH. 6 Multiple Trauma
- CH. 7 Drowning and Near Drowning: Submersion Injuries
- CH. 8 Burns, Electrical Injuries, and Smoke Inhalation
- CH.9 Terrorism and Mass Casualty Events
- CH.10 Poisoning
- CH.11 Thermoregulation
- CH.12 Envenomation Syndromes
- CH.13 Mechanical Ventilation
- CH.14 Inhaled Gases
- CH.15 Extracorporeal Life Support
- CH.16 Renal Replacement Therapies
- CH.17 Blood Products in the PICU
- CH.18 Plasmapheresis and Transfusion Therapy
- CH. 19 The Molecular Biology of Acute Lung Injury
- CH. 20 Respiratory Physiology
- CH. 21 Respiratory Monitoring
- CH. 22 Status Asthmaticus
- CH. 23 Neonatal Respiratory Failure
- CH. 24 Bronchiolitis and Pneumonia
- CH. 25 Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- CH. 26 Chronic Respiratory Failure
- CH. 27 Sleep and Breathing
- CH. 28 Acute Neuromuscular Disease
- CH. 29 Chronic Neuromuscular Disease
- CH. 30 Developmental Neurobiology, Neurophysiology, and the PICU
- CH. 31 Molecular Biology of Brain Injury
- CH. 32 Evaluation of the Comatose Child
- CH. 33 Neurologic Monitoring
- CH. 34 Neurologic Imaging
- CH. 35 Head and Spinal Cord Trauma
- CH. 36 Status Epilepticus
- CH. 37 Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke
- CH. 38 Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
- CH. 39 Metabolic Encephalopathies in Children
- CHAPTER 40 Brain Death
- CH.41 Cardiac Anatomy
- CH.42 Cardiovascular Physiology
- CH.43 Cardiorespiratory
- CH.50 Neurohormonal Control in the Immune System
- CH.51 The Immune System
- CH.52 The Polymorphonuclear
- CH.53 The Immune System and Viral Illness in the Critically Ill
- CH.56 Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy
- CH.57 Bacterial Sepsis and Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis
- CH.58 Critical Viral InfectionsSECTION VII NUTRITIONAL AND GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS
- CH.64 Principles of Nutrition and Metabolism
- CH.65 Nutritional Support in the Critically Ill Child
- CH.66 The Acute Abdomen
- CH.67 Fulminant Hepatic Failure and Transplantation
- CH.68 Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation
- CH.69 Critical Aspects of Intestinal Disorders
- CH.70 Adrenal Dysfunction
- CH.71 Disorders of Glucose Homeostasis
- CH.72 Disorders of Water, Sodium, and Potassium Homeostasis
- CH.73 Disorders of Calcium, Magnesium, and Phosphate
- CH.78 Cancer Therapy: Mechanisms, Toxicity, and Ethics in the PICU
- CH.79 Oncologic Emergencies and Complications
- CH.80 Hematologic Emergencies
- CH.81 Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation
- CH.82 Coagulation Issues in the PICU
- CH.83 Sickle Cell Disease
SECTION I INITIAL STABILIZATION
SECTION II ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES
SECTION III LIFE-SUPPORT TECHNOLOGIES
PART TWO CRITICAL CARE ORGAN SYSTEMS
SECTION I RESPIRATORY DISEASE
SECTION II NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE
SECTION III NEUROLOGIC DISEASE
SECTION IV CARDIAC DISEASE
SECTION V IMMUNOLOGIC DISEASES
SECTION VI INFECTIOUS DISEASES
SECTION VIII RENAL, ENDOCRINE, AND METABOLIC DISORDERS
SECTION IX ONCOLOGIC AND HEMATOLOGIC DISORDERS
Index
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Publication date: October, 2008
Pages: 1072
Weight: 3g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Anaesthetics and Pain, Critical Care Medicine, General Issues, General Practice, Nursing, Paediatrics and Neonatal, Respiratory Medicine
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