Perioperative Critical Care Cardiology (Topics in Anaesthesia and Critical Care)

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In this book are discussed topics of particular importance to critical care cardiovascular diagnosis and management in the perioperative period. Chapter topics are the causes for heart failure; the pathophysiology of heart failure; coronary heart disease and ischemic preconditioning; hypertensive urgencies and emergencies; diagnosis of heart failure; preoperative cardiac risk assessment; hemodynamic monitoring in patients with heart failure; electrocardiography of heart failure - features and arrhythmias; pharmacologic management for patients with heart failure; devices for management of heart failure; pacemaker and internal cardioverter-defibrillator therapies; management of cardiopulmonary arrest; circulatory shock - anaphylactic, cardiogenic, haemorrhagic, septic; prevention and management of cardiac dysfunction during and after cardiac surgery; vasodilator therapy - systemic and pulmonary; and, thromboembolism and anticoagulation. This work represents an important update for anaesthesiologists, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, emergency care physicians and intensivists caring for patients with acute, life-threatening cardiovascular afflictions.
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Amazon Sales Rank: #1417956 in Books
Published on: 2007-02-02
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
282 pages
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Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Update for cardiologists, anesthesiologists, cardiac surgeons, and intensivists. Different aspects of cardiovascular dysfunction are presented, including diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment in the perioperative period. Softcover.

Manual of Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound By Vicki Noble, Bret Nelson, Nicholas Sutingco

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This is a practical and concise introduction to bedside emergency ultrasound. It covers the full spectrum of conditions diagnosed via this modality, both for guiding invasive procedures and for diagnosis in critical-care settings. It introduces the major applications for emergency ultrasound by using focused diagnostic questions and teaching the image acquisition skills needed to answer these questions. Images of positive and negative findings for each application (FAST, ECHO, etc.) are presented, as well as scanning tips for improved image quality. Each section contains a review of the literature supporting each application.
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Amazon Sales Rank: #150767 in Books
Published on: 2007-10-22
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
254 pages
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About the Author
Vicki Noble received her MD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. She completed a fellowship in emergency ultrasound at St.Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York and became a Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer in 2004. She is a Fellow of the Amercian College of Emergency Physicians and is the Ultrasound Section subcommittee chair for education and practice standards. She has been awarded the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Excellence Award as well as being nominated for the Harvard University Medical School Teaching award and the Brian McGovern Award for Clinical Excellence at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has taught extensively in emergency ultrasound both in the United States and internationally. She is currently practicing in Boston at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is the Director of Emergency Ultrasound. Dr. Nicholas Sutingco is a board-certified Staff Emergency Physician currently in community practice at the INOVA Fair Oaks Hospital and at The Fauquier Hospital in Virginia. He is the Director of Emergency Ultrasound QI/QA at these institutions. He received his medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine, and completed his residency training in emergency medicine at the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham & Women's Hospital). He is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians and is RDMS-eligible in 2007. He has taught courses in emergency ultrasound during his residency in Boston and currently within the INOVA (Northern Virginia) hospital system. Dr Bret Nelson is Director of Emergency Ultrasound for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers. He has taught courses on ultrasound throughout Europe and the United States and received the Excellence in Teaching award at Mount Sinai.
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Excellent Ultrasound Primer
This is the ideal guide for emergency and ICU ultrasound. The reasons why I can highly recommend this book:
* Beautiful diagrams combined with actual ultrasound images
* Length is digestible by busy physicians, but includes all the crucial points on each modality
* Fantastic procedural section, which allows you to utilize ultrasound to increase the success rate and safety of your procedures the same day you read the chapter.
* Layout is easy to use and aesthetically pleasing.
* Includes up-to-date evidence for each technique.

This text is ideal for both beginners and intermediate ultrasound practitioners.

Essential resource for the full range of ED ultrasound applications
This book seems ideal for both beginners and more advanced users as well. The manual covers all the accepted and emerging uses of ultrasound - not just FAST, echocardiography, and line placement, but optic nerve sheath diameter, foreign body localization, DVT identification, and more.

Each color-coded topic features multiple high-quality images of normal and abnormal views, and anatomical illustrations to demonstrate proper probe positioning. The writing is straightforward, and equally suitable for "on the job" referencing or reviewing at leisure. The chapters include troubleshooting and pitfalls sections loaded with helpful imaging tips, and lit review tables to guide researchers, over and above the extensive bibliography. I also appreciated the helpful sample clinical protocols, included to guide physicians' decision-making for starting therapy, calling consults, or considering other imaging methods.

Altogether, this concise manual is packed with information to guide physicians at all levels of training through the full range of ED ultrasonography. Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound ought to be part of every department's library.

The Best Emergency Ultrasound Text
This is the best introductory text to emergency ultrasound that I've ever read. Like all introductory books, it starts with a brief, useful introduction to the physics of ultrasound concentrating on those aspects relevant to emergency applications. The book then moves to diagnostic and procedural uses of ultrasound in the ED. These sections go far beyond the traditional topics of the FAST exam and central line placement to include such varied applications as chest ultrasound, ocular US, foreign body removal, joint aspiration, lumbar puncture, etc. Further unlike other texts, this manual supports the text with quality anatomic diagrams along with sonographic images of both normal and abnormal examples. This method of demonstrating anatomy in conjunction with a normal sonographic image juxtaposed next to an abnormal image is extremely helpful and is sorely lacking in other books of this type. If you are looking for an excellent introduction to ED ultrasound, this is the book!

The Radiology of Acute Cervical Spine Trauma By John H. Harris, Stuart E. Mirvis

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...many of the original images have been replaced, and the number of ilustrations has increased by more than 50%... includes expanded discussion on the role of CT, 3D-CT, and MRI.
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Amazon Sales Rank: #1389969 in Books
Published on: 1996-01
Number of items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
512 pages
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University of Texas, Houston. Third edition of a reference on the accurate diagnosis of acute blunt cervical spine trauma through radiographic and imaging techniques. Previous edition 1987. Describes normal anatomic variants, and specific injuries. For clinicians and residents.

Emerging Technologies in Surgery From Springer

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Tremendous acceleration and changes in scientific discovery and progress are presently occuring. These important emerging technologies that will affect the practicing surgeon within the next 10 to 20 years are illustrated in detail in this volume. Its purpose is not to review clinical experience of the common surgical practice of the past decade, but to outline and illustrate the future trends. International experts in this field demonstrate emerging procedures and significant advances.
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Amazon Sales Rank: #91622 in Books
Published on: 2007-08-23
Number of items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
168 pages
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"...Many books about the technology and the future become outdated and even farcical in a short amount of time. Think about Cold War era predictions about colonizing the moon and mining on Mars at the turn of the millennium, or predictions of early computer experts that computers would be limited to government and a few large companies. The authors of this book combine future predictions with discussions about the process of change and education to make a powerful and enduring contribution to the field..." (T.D. Light, University of Iowa, Doody's, December 2007)

Perioperative Critical Care Cardiology (Topics in Anaesthesia and Critical Care) From Springer

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In this book are discussed topics of particular importance to critical care cardiovascular diagnosis and management in the perioperative period. Chapter topics are the causes for heart failure; the pathophysiology of heart failure; coronary heart disease and ischemic preconditioning; hypertensive urgencies and emergencies; diagnosis of heart failure; preoperative cardiac risk assessment; hemodynamic monitoring in patients with heart failure; electrocardiography of heart failure - features and arrhythmias; pharmacologic management for patients with heart failure; devices for management of heart failure; pacemaker and internal cardioverter-defibrillator therapies; management of cardiopulmonary arrest; circulatory shock - anaphylactic, cardiogenic, haemorrhagic, septic; prevention and management of cardiac dysfunction during and after cardiac surgery; vasodilator therapy - systemic and pulmonary; and, thromboembolism and anticoagulation. This work represents an important update for anaesthesiologists, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, emergency care physicians and intensivists caring for patients with acute, life-threatening cardiovascular afflictions.
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Amazon Sales Rank: #1657770 in Books
Published on: 2007-02-02
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
282 pages
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Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Update for cardiologists, anesthesiologists, cardiac surgeons, and intensivists. Different aspects of cardiovascular dysfunction are presented, including diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment in the perioperative period. Softcover.

Snapshots of Hemodynamics by Nico Westerhof

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Hemodynamics makes it possible to characterize in a quantitative way, the function of the heart and arterial system, thereby producing information about what genetic and molecular processes are of importance for cardiovascular function.

Snapshots of Hemodynamics: An Aid for Clinical Research and Graduate Education by Nico Westerhof, Nikos Stergiopulos and Mark I. M. Noble is a quick reference guide designed to help basic and clinical researchers as well as graduate students to understand hemodynamics. The layout of the book provides short and independent chapters that provide teaching diagrams as well as clear descriptions of the essentials of basic and applied principles of hemodynamics. References are provided at the end of each chapter for further reading and reference.

Nico Westerhof, PhD is affiliated with the Laboratory for Physiology at VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Nikos Stergiopulos, PhD is affiliated with the Laboratory of Hemodynamics and Cardiovascular Technology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Mark IM Noble, DSc, MD, PhD is affiliated with Cardiovascular Medicine at Aberdeen University, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Amazon Sales Rank: #899745 in Books
Published on: 2004-10-29
Number of items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
192 pages

Monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics (The Clinics: Surgery) by Mark Siegel

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This exciting new issue of Critical Care Clinics is devoted to key issues and controversies related to monitoring in the ICU. Topics will cover a wide range of key topics from physiological monitoring to monitoring quality and will include high-tech issues such as installation of computer systems as well as low-tech bedside clinical monitoring systems such as clinical sedation scales. Invasive and Noninvasive Hemodynamic Monitoring will also be discussed. The overall objective of the issue is to provide practical information that will be useful to all critical care practitioners. Another goal is to make sure that clinicians- even those without engineering backgrounds- will become more comfortable with ICU technology so they can think critically about many current controversies and potential pitfalls related to monitoring in the ICU.
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* Published on: 2007-10-30
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 336 pages

Exercise-Induced Acute Renal Failure: Acute Renal Failure with Severe Loin Pain and Patchy Renal Ischemia after Anaerobic Exercise by Isao Ishikawa

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Acute renal failure induced by rhabdomyolysis after strenuous, prolonged exercise such as marathon running or mountain climbing is a well-known medical phenomenon, but exercise-induced acute renal failure after short-term anaerobic exercise - for instance, short-distance track races - has been recognized only recently. This monograph provides in-depth information on exercise-induced acute renal failure after short-term anaerobic exercise, which causes severe pain in the loin and patchy renal ischemia with no sign of rhabdomyolysis. Half of the patients suffering from this condition experience renal hypouricemia, for which approximately 20% are treated with dialysis. This complete clinical reference book includes characteristics of the disease, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis, and corresponding preventive measures. Important information on gene analysis and etiology is also included, creating a valuable resource for nephrologists as well as for emergency physicians and those in the field of sports medicine.

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* Published on: 2007-06-12
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Hardcover
* 108 pages

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"This book focuses on exercise-induced acute renal failure (ALPE), describing the condition in great detail including clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Pertinent reviews of the literature as well as multiple tables, figures, and images are provided throughout the text. The author identifies emergency room physicians, nephrologists, general practitioners, and sports medicine physicians as his target audience. However, the book may be most appealing and pertinent to readers with a particular interest in nephrology." (Chris A. Klenck, Doody's Review Service, August, 2007)