The Oxford Specialist Handbook in Cardiothoracic Critical Care summarises current knowledge and provides an evidence-based approach to all aspects of patient care. It is written by leading experts in the field and provides a guide to clinical decision making in a user-friendly format.
Written in the Oxford Handbook format, each section is comprised of short topics ideal for quick reference. Portable, accessible, and reliable, the book equips the clinician with the basic scientific and clinical knowledge to safely assist in formulating management plans, based on current best practice. It is intuitively divided in to four sections, concisely covering; postoperative management, organ dysfunction, specific patient groups and treatments and procedures.
This allows confidence in the management of all patients in the cardiothoracic critical care unit, including patients immediately following cardiac surgery, those with acute cardiovascular disorders, those with pre-existing cardiac disease and many others. It will provide knowledge and instil confidence for the procedures regularly performed such as pacing, central venous cannulation and echocardiography.
This concise and practical handbook would be useful to the general intensivist and is an indispensable pocket reference for intensive care nurses, advanced critical care practitioners and trainees & consultants in cardiothoracic surgery and critical care. This edition has been updated to cover all recent advances in the management of this critically unwell patient group.
Written in the Oxford Handbook format, each section is comprised of short topics ideal for quick reference. Portable, accessible, and reliable, the book equips the clinician with the basic scientific and clinical knowledge to safely assist in formulating management plans, based on current best practice. It is intuitively divided in to four sections, concisely covering; postoperative management, organ dysfunction, specific patient groups and treatments and procedures.
This allows confidence in the management of all patients in the cardiothoracic critical care unit, including patients immediately following cardiac surgery, those with acute cardiovascular disorders, those with pre-existing cardiac disease and many others. It will provide knowledge and instil confidence for the procedures regularly performed such as pacing, central venous cannulation and echocardiography.
This concise and practical handbook would be useful to the general intensivist and is an indispensable pocket reference for intensive care nurses, advanced critical care practitioners and trainees & consultants in cardiothoracic surgery and critical care. This edition has been updated to cover all recent advances in the management of this critically unwell patient group.
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1: Robyn Smith; Sarah Finlayson: The normal postoperative cardiac patient 2: Vallish Bhardwaj; Stephen Webb: Risk Prediction and Outcome 3: Stefan Schraag: Fast-tracking the low-risk patient 4: Tim Strang; Dr Lajos Szentgyorgyi: Resuscitation in the cardiac intensive care setting 5: Robyn Smith: Myocardial ischaemia and infarction 6: Rajamiyer Venkatswaran; Stuart Grant: Bleeding management reexploration 7: Mark Thornton: Postoperative Hypotension 8: Alice Montalti; Rita Lopes: Glucose, lactate, and acidDSbase 9: Ben Shelley; Jonathan Neil: Postoperative medications 10: Andrew McGuire: Information handover and care planning 11: Robyn Smith: Left ventricle 12: Philip McCall: Right ventricular failure 13: Robyn Smith: Valvular heart disease 14: Robyn Smith: Common arrhythmias and their management 15: Neil Brain: Lung 16: Neal Padmadhaman: Organ Dysfunction: Kidney 17: Anton Buter: Gastrointestinal 18: Geoffrey Warnock; Chris Hawthorne: Nervous system 19: Lynne Anderson: Haematology 20: Tim Hayes: Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT) and cardiac surgery 21: Adam Glass; Ben Shelley: The thoracic patient 22: Robyn Smith; Niki Walker: The adult patient with congenital heart disease 23: Mark Thornton; Rachel Darling: The obstetric patient with cardiac disease 24: Yuran Zheng; Paul Callan: Heart failure resistant to standard medical therapy 25: Alice Brennan; Jonathan R Dalzell: The cardiac transplant patient 26: John Blaikley: The transplant patient DS lung transplant 27: Rachel Fraser; Kenneth McKinlay: Acute cardiology 28: Ashleigh Taylor: Central venous cannulation, pulmonary artery catheter, and minimally invasive cardiac output monitoring 29: Martin Hughes; Lia Paton: Airway management 30: Martin Hughes; Kathryn Puxty: Respiratory management 31: Jennifer Willder: Circulatory support: pharmacological 32: Sam Howitt; Alan Ashworth: Circulatory support: mechanical 33: David A.W. Reid: Epicardial pacing 34: Stefan Schragg: Sedation and pain relief 35: Prashant Mohite; Doshi Harikrishna: Wound management 36: Tristan Banks; Stephanie Thomas: Infection control and prevention 37: Philip McCall: Bedside echocardiography: transthoracic echocardiography 38: Philip McCall: Transoesophageal echocardiography
