Modern Intensive Care Diagnosis and Treatment (Second Edition)

Author: Frederic S. Bongard et al.
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: "Modern Critical Care Diagnosis and Treatment" meets the unique needs of critical care physicians, especially those with backgrounds in internal medicine, respiratory medicine, surgery, or anesthesiology. It provides a unified solution to the problems encountered in adult critical care practice. This book transcends disciplinary boundaries, enabling you to quickly grasp the key diagnostic features, related pathophysiology, brief disease processes, and practical management principles of a wide range of critical illnesses. It helps you successfully manage critically ill patients and serves as a one-stop reference for practicing adult critical care physicians. It is convenient for critical care education, practice, and review—especially for those preparing for professional exams. It integrates perspectives from both internal and surgical medicine in terms of diagnostic and treatment expertise. "Modern Critical Care Diagnosis and Treatment" meets the unique needs of critical care physicians, especially those with backgrounds in internal medicine, respiratory medicine, surgery, or anesthesiology. It provides a unified solution to the problems encountered in adult critical care practice. This book transcends disciplinary boundaries, enabling you to quickly grasp the key diagnostic features, related pathophysiology, brief disease processes, and practical management principles of a wide range of critical illnesses. It helps you successfully manage critically ill patients and serves as a one-stop reference for practicing adult critical care physicians. It is convenient for critical care education, practice, and review—especially for those preparing for professional exams. It integrates perspectives from both internal and surgical medicine in terms of diagnostic and treatment expertise; covers 40 key topics in critical care basics, medical critical care, and surgical critical care highlights; includes knowledge on pregnancy, mental illness, imaging, patient transport, and other aspects; proposes new treatment principles for acute respiratory distress syndrome (latest), provides updates on the pathophysiology of respiratory failure and fluid/electrolyte disorders (latest), and offers the best treatment recommendations for supportive care measures in critical illness, such as nutrition, bleeding prevention, and deep vein thrombosis prevention; suitable for the following individuals: medical students rotating through internal medicine, surgery, and critical care; residents and fellows; practicing physicians who need a concise reference to manage daily critical care tasks.