Description
This pocket book succinctly describes 318 errors commonly made by attendings, residents, interns, nurses, and nurse-anesthetists in the intensive care unit, and gives practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding these errors. The book can easily be read immediately before the start of a rotation or used for quick reference on call.
Each error is described in a short, clinically relevant vignette, followed by a list of things that should always or never be done in that context and tips on how to avoid or ameliorate problems. Coverage includes all areas of ICU practice except the pediatric intensive care unit.
Features
--Succinct, practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding 318 errors commonly made in the ICU
--Geared to the entire ICU staff, including attendings, residents, interns, nurses, and nurse-anesthetists
--Easy to read immediately before the start of a rotation or to use for quick reference on call
--Description of each error includes:
--Covers all areas of ICU practice except the pediatric ICU. Topics include:
--Geared to the entire ICU staff, including attendings, residents, interns, nurses, and nurse-anesthetists
--Easy to read immediately before the start of a rotation or to use for quick reference on call
--Description of each error includes:
- a short, clinically relevant vignette
- a list of things that should always or never be done in that context
- tips on how to avoid or ameliorate problems
--Covers all areas of ICU practice except the pediatric ICU. Topics include:
- medications
- devices, lines, tubes, catheters, drains, procedures
- ventilators, airway, intubation, extubation
- infectious disease
- shock, fluids, electrolytes
- neurological/neurosurgical intensive care
- laboratory tests
- nutrition
- renal disease
- blood
- imaging and tests
- pregnancy
- burns
About the Author(s)
- Lisa Marcucci MD
- Attending PhysicianDepartment of Surgery and Critical Care MedicineVeterans Administration HospitalPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Elizabeth A Martinez MD, MHS
- Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Johns Hopkins University; Medical Director, Adult Post-Anesthesia Care Units, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD
- Elliott R Haut MD
- Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Critical Care and Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
- Anthony D Slonim MD, DrPH
- Senior Staff, Medicine and Pediatrics, Carilion Clinic; Professor, Virginia Tech-Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA
- Jose I Suarez MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Neurology/Neurosurgery, Case Western Reserve University; Director, Neurosciences Critical Care, Department of Neurology/Neurosurgery, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Specs
- Product Format: Softbound
- ISBN: 9780781767392
- Trim Size: 5 x 8
- Pages: 896
- Pub Date: Nov 29, 2006
- Weight: 2.0
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