A.Gullo • G. Berlot (Eds.) 2006 Teaching is an ancient activity; it requires a predisposition and ability to transmit one’s own knowledge to others. It is also an innate quality that tends to strengthen over time, due to the interaction between teacher and pupil that develops and intensifies during their association, and to the ready availability of constantly improving […]
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Michael A. DeVita Kenneth Hillman Rinaldo Bellomo Editors 2006 Implementation and Outcome Measurement As the editors of Medical Emergency Teams and as clinicians, we have been working on improving hospital responses to crises for more than ten years. We have learned the hard way how not to build the wrong response, how not to step on toes, how not […]
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Joost J. L. M. Bierens (Ed.) 2006 Prevention, Rescue, Treatment The board of Governors of the Maatschappij tot Redding van Drenkelingen is happy to introduce this congress book, the fruit of much effort in recent years of many devoted researchers in the fields of prevention, rescue and treatment of drowned people. It is a compilation of the results […]
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Edited by G. Allen Finley Patrick J. McGrath Christine T. Chambers 2006 Since the 1970s, when the classic study by Eland (1) illustrated the significant discrepancy in how pain in children was managed as compared with adults, issues related to the delivery of pain care to children have been at the forefront of research and practice. It is […]
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J. L.Atlee • A.Gullo • G. Sinagra • J.-L.Vincent (Eds) 2007 Perioperative critical care cardiology (PCCC) includes the cardiovascular management of patients with any underlying diseases or imposed conditions (whether natural or iatrogenic) that involve or affect the heart–including, acute or chronic mechanical heart failure (HF). This can result from ischemic heart disease, diabetes mellitus, uncontrolled hypertension, arrhythmias that compromise […]
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Brendan T. Finucane Editor 2007 In 1999, Churchill Livingstone published, what I thought was the first text on Complications of Regional Anesthesia. I was subsequently reminded by Daniel C. Moore that Charles C. Thomas published a book with an identical title in 1995.
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Editor Christoph Stein 2007 Analgesics are among the oldest drugs described, albeit not necessarily for medicinal use. For example, the Sumerians isolated opioids (probably for their euphoric effects) in the third millennium b.c. and the use of willow bark (salicin) for fever was first reported in the eighteenth century.
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John Kirkup 2007 This book is intended to explain and inform, not to dismay and shock, despite undertones of disapproval inherent in the term amputation, so deeply implanted in popular imagination, as epitomizing cruel and barbaric surgery before general anaesthesia. Yet many patients accepted this painful last resort in an endeavour to survive with three limbs rather than die […]
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H. Ishihara, A.H. Giesecke 2007 Academic medicine can be very satisfying. I am pleased when I see one of my residents takes excellent care of a seriously injured patient. I am pleased when a junior member of the faculty publishes a really good paper.
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Derek S. Wheeler, Hector R. Wong, and Thomas P. Shanley (Eds.) 2009 The field of critical care medicine is in the midst of a dramatic change. Technological and scientific advances during the last decade have resulted in a fundamental change in the way we view disease processes, such as sepsis, shock, acute lung injury, and traumatic […]
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