Examination intensive care medicine. (©2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Intensive care medicine
• Further Information: Note: Carole Foot [and others].
• Other Names: Foot, Carole
• Contents: Front Cover; Examination Intensive Care Medicine; Copyright; Dedication; Text contents; DVD contents; About the DVD; Foreword; Preface; About the authors; Acknowledgements; DVD Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 -- Training in intensive care medicine in Europe and Australasia; European Diploma of Intensive Care Medicine (EDIC); Chapter 2 -- Strategies for success; Timing; Preparation courses; Textbooks, journals and online resources; Study notes; Looking after yourself; Study groups; Clinical cases; Vivas; Creating the right impression; Travel considerations; On the day; Coping with failure. Imaging studiesElectrocardiographs; Haemodynamic monitoring; Respiratory function tests; Ventilator waveforms; Indirect calorimetry; Capnography; Biochemistry tests; Haematology; Analysis of body fluids; References; Chapter 7 -- Vivas; Generic advice; Format; Vivas for the Primary examination of the CICM; Chapter 8 -- Clinical cases in the ICU; Introduction; A generic approach to the clinical case; Diagnostic problems; 1. Why does this patient have severe respiratory failure?; 2. Why is this patient failing to wean from ventilation?; 3. Can you extubate this patient? 4. Why is this patient shocked?5. Why is this patient not passing urine?; 6 Why is this patient jaundiced?; 7. Why is this patient not waking up?; 8. Why is this patient weak?; 9. Is this patient brain dead?; 10. Why is this patient febrile?; 11. What injuries has this multiple trauma patient sustained?; 12. How is this patient with multi-organ failure progressing?; Specific patient groups; 1. The patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; 2. The cardiac arrest survivor; 3. The post-cardiac surgical patient; 4. The patient with a subarachnoid haemorrhage. 5. The patient with a head injury6. The patient with a spinal injury; 7. The patient with an intra-abdominal catastrophe; 8. The patient who has had an abdominal aortic aneurysm repair; 9. The obstetric patient; 10. The transplant patient; 11. The oncology patient; 12. The patient with burns; 13. The patient receiving extracorporeal life support; 14. The bariatric patient; 15. The long-stay patient; Chapter 9 -- Critical care literature; Introduction to the reference library; Statistics; Sample question; References; Chapter 10 -- Paediatric intensive care; Introduction; Key paediatric facts.
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: Sydney New York : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 616.028; Critical care medicine -- Australia -- Textbooks; Anesthesia -- Australia -- Textbooks; Emergency Medicine -- education; Critical Care; Anesthesia; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Australia; Textbooks; Electronic books; Examinations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780729579629
• Related ISBNs: 072957962X; 9780729539623; 0729539628
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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