This is the PDF eBook version for Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine 8th Edition by Richard S. Irwin, Craig M. Lilly, Paul H. Mayo, James M. Rippe
Table of Contents
Approaches intensive care from an interprofessional, collaborative perspective, encompassing anesthesia, surgery, trauma, and neurology, as well as cardiovascular and medical intensive care.
Maintains a practical, clinically-oriented approach, with comprehensive sections on procedures, techniques, and ultrasound; minimally invasive monitoring; pharmacology, overdoses, and poisoning; infectious disease; transplantation; critical care consequences of agents of mass destruction; and many more.
Features many new chapters, and an entirely new section on Palliative Care and Ethical Issues in the Critical Care Unit.
Reflects the rising importance of point-of-care ultrasonography with five hours of expertly narrated video embedded into 23 relevant chapters, clearly depicting the ideal use of this tool for intensivists .
Includes a section on ICU Design, Organization, Operation, and Outcome Measures that addresses important changes and advances regarding safety, clinical practice guidelines, decreasing the cost of care, tele-ICU, and more.
Provides extensive updates reflecting advances in cardiovascular intensive care, surgical critical care, shock and trauma, and sepsis management.
Includes recommendations reflecting randomized controlled clinical trials, summarized, when possible, in quick-reference tables throughout.