Description
Completely rewritten and updated for the Fifth Edition, this Spiral® Manual remains the leading quick-reference guide to both medical and surgical intensive care. The essential principles, protocols, and techniques from Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine, Sixth Edition have been distilled into a portable, practical manual that is ideal for rapid bedside consultation. The user-friendly outline format features numerous tables, illustrations, and annotated references. Highlights of this Fifth Edition include a comprehensive overdoses and poisonings section presented in tabular format, new chapters on minimally invasive monitoring in the ICU, and completely revised cardiology and hematology sections.
Features
--NEW: New chapters on minimally invasive monitoring in the ICU
--NEW: Completely revised cardiology and hematology sections
--Annotated references
--Comprehensive coverage
--Outline format
--Portable
About the Author(s)
- Richard S Irwin MD
- Professor of Medicine and Nursing, University of Massachusetts Medical School and Graduate School of Nursing, Worcester, MA; Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, UMass Memorial Health Care, Worcester, MA ; Chief,
- James M Rippe MD
- Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; Founder and Director, Rippe Lifestyle Institute, Shrewsbury, MA; Founder and Director, Rippe Health Assessment at Florida Hospital Celebration Heal
Specs
- Edition: Fifth
- Product Format: Softbound
- ISBN: 9780781799928
- Trim Size: 5.25 x 8.375
- Pages: 976
- Pub Date: May 27, 2009
- Weight: 2.0
Associated Specialties
Table of contents
SECTION HEADINGS
PROCEDURES AND TECHNIQUES
CARDIOVASCULAR PROBLEMS AND CORONARY CARE
PULMONARY PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
RENAL PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
INFECTIOUS DISEASE PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
GASTROINTESTINAL AND HEPATOBILIARY PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
ENDOCRINE PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
HEMATOLOGIC PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
PHARMACOLOGY, OVERDOSES, AND POISONINGS
SURGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
SHOCK AND TRAUMA
NEUROLOGIC PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
TRANSPLANTATION
RHEUMATOLOGIC AND IMMUNOLOGIC PROBLEMS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
PSYCHIATRIC ISSUES IN INTENSIVE CARE
MORAL, ETHICAL, LEGAL ISSUES AND PUBLIC POLICY IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
APPENDIX: CALCULATIONS COMMONLY USED IN CRITICAL CARE
