A Beginner's Guide to Intensive Care Medicine

Recent changes to doctor training have increasingly led to foundation year doctors being rotated to Intensive Care Units (ICUs). Many doctors - along with nurses and allied health professionals new to intensive care - find that the standard texts on this challenging clinical environment are too comprehensive to provide an introduction or day-to-day reference. This simple bedside handbook fills that gap, providing a pragmatic guide to the basics of ICUs, patient management and emergencies. It also addresses recent and future developments in a variety of areas including organ donation, the Mental Capacity Act and management of the acutely ill patient. The book is divided into short, easy-to-read topics, which have clearly outlined learning goals and emphasise the continuities between intensive care medicine and other forms of care. Foundation, Acute Common Stem and Anaesthesia junior doctors facing their initial attachment in Intensive Care will find this essential reading. Nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists and allied health professionals working in ICUs will also find it an invaluable guide. 'An accessible, concise and practical guide to the first weeks in ICM that trainees will not only learn from, but will enjoy reading: I am sure that more than a few trainers will find it useful too!' - From the Foreword by Jonathan Goodall

ISBN 1846194512   Pages 188 ISBN13 9781846194511 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 318 Publisher Radcliffe Publishing Ltd   Published in Oxford Imprint Radcliffe Publishing Ltd   Height (mm) 231 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 155 Publication date 25 Oct 2010   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY 616.028   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		Foreword
		Preface
		About the editors
		List of contributors
		Acknowledgements
1		Your first day by Shondipon Laha		1
2		The daily review of a patient by Shondipon Laha		5
3		Face masks, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and airways by Nitin Arora		9
4		The ventilator by Irfan Chaudry		15
5		Monitoring the critical care patient by Shondipon Laha		19
6		Communication by Mark Pugh		22
7		Capacity and consent by Nitin Arora		28
8		Analgesia, sedation and muscle relaxation by Steven Benington		33
9		Drugs that work on the heart by Andrew Haughton		40
10		Nutrition and fluids by Benjamin Slater		45
11		How to assess ICU referrals on the ward by Serena Tolhurst-Cleaver		52
12		How to assess a trauma patient by Shondipon Laha		58
13		The head-injured patient by Peter Duncan		65
14		Initial management of the patient with burns by Thomas Owen		69
15		Maintaining an airway by Nitin Arora		73
16		What to do if the endotracheal tube or tracheostomy falls out by Brendan McGrath		76
17		áFighting the ventilator' by James Wilson		88
18		Pneumothorax by Amanda Shaw		91
19		Cardiac arrhythmias by Mike Dickinson		95
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