Emergencies in Critical Care / Edition 2

by Martin Beed, Richard Sherman, Ravi Mahajan

Overview

This essential handbook provides a practical, accessible guide to all emergency situations encountered in the critical care setting. Emergencies are very common in the critical care setting and this book helps critical care staff identify patients at risk, how to manage them, and be prepared. To help the reader find advice quickly, most chapters begin with a generic description of how to manage emergencies affecting that system, or patient group. This is followed by details of specific diagnoses and how they should be managed. The author team, where possible, follow the 'ABC' approach, which is not only the standard approach to emergency management, but also a widely-used scheme for documenting daily reviews on ICU, and for documenting trauma management.

This second edition covers new areas of importance, including sections on how to deal with adverse events and critical incidents involving critically ill patients, patient-safety and improved patient rescue packages, and on the practicalities of infection control procedures. Normal values have been combined in to one short chapter for easy reference.

Easy to use and evidence-based, this book will help all critical care staff involved with the management of emergencies, from the new junior doctor to the experienced consultant in a portable and easily-readable format.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199696277
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/24/2013
Series:	Emergencies in...
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	4.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Martin Beed, Consultant in Critical Care, Critical Care Directorate, Nottingham City Hospital, UK,Richard Sherman, Consultant in Critical Care, Critical Care Directorate, Nottingham City Hospital, UK,Ravi Mahajan, Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Critical Care Directorate, Nottingham City Hospital, UK

Martin Beed graduated from Nottingham Medical School in 1994, and has worked in a wide variety of hospitals including being a medical SHO in the Shetland Isles. He trained in anaesthesia and intensive care in the Nottingham and East Midlands School of Anaesthesia; and has also worked for a year in the intensive care unit of the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia, where he developed an interest in the retrieval and transfer of critically ill patients by air or by road. He obtained a consultant post in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia in 2006 at the City Campus of Nottingham University Hospitals.


Richard Sherman trained at The University of Sheffield Medical School. He gained his current position as Consultant in Critical Care & Anaesthesia at Nottingham City Hospital in 2002. He has been a member of the Intensive Care Society for over eight years. He is a qualified Advanced Trauma Life Support instructor and enjoys the educational aspect of his work. He is involved with undergraduate and trainee teaching, audit and research.

Ravi Majahan joined the University of Nottingham in 1991 as a lecturer in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, and was awarded chair in 2006. He has a drive for education and research, has been training programme director, honorary secretary of Anaesthetic Research Society, and has held many examinerships. His main research interests include cerebral vascular physiology, and vascular physiology in sepsis.

Table of Contents

1. Assessment and stabilization2. Airway3. Breathing4. Circulation5. Neurology6. Metabolic and endocrine7. Renal8. Gastrointestinal and hepatic9. Haematology and oncology10. Infections and infectious diseases11. Surgical patients12. Trauma, burns and skin injuries13. Obstetrics and fertility patients14. Poisoning and overdose15. Incidents and adverse events16. Transfers and retrievals17. Treatment limitation and organ donation18. Common emergency procedures

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: David James Dries, MSE, MD (Regions Hospital)
Description: This is the second edition of book on emergencies that can occur in patients in the critical care setting.
Purpose: It groups these emergencies by organ system and in specific patient populations.
Audience: Postgraduate trainees and medical students are the intended audience, which is written by physicians from critical care units in the United Kingdom.
Features: The book begins by describing problems based on degree of acuity with each of the major organ systems in patients managed by an intensivist. The first few chapters describe complications related to the airway, breathing, and circulation, while later chapters include renal, gastrointestinal, hematological, and infectious disease concerns. The second part of the book describes problems seen in specific patient populations, such as postsurgical patients, injured patients, and pregnant patients. The final chapters review communication strategies, organ donation, and bedside procedures. Presentations are in outline format with highlights and shading identifying tables and important teaching points. Figures include significant detail. Unfortunately, the typeset for these figures makes many of them difficult to read. Line drawings are used to good effect. Chapters include a small number of references after each subtopic. References come from primary literature and date to within two years of publication. The table of contents lists chapters only by broad subject area. The appendix includes reference laboratory values, emergency drug doses, and a small number of reference drug levels.
Assessment: This is a worthy pocket guide for junior house officers needing a starting point for problem management. Greater detail for understanding physiology and problem management must come from a larger textbook.

Doody's Review Service

"...an essential handbook for the critical care unit where emergencies are expected to occur and staff need to recognise the patients who are most likely to deteriorate...easy to read with a practical format."—Nursing Standard

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