Brendan T. Finucane ● Ban C.H. Tsui Albert H. Santora 2011 By the time this edition is published, close to 23 years will have passed since Principles of Airway Management was first published. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since 1988. Airway groups have been formed in many countries. Several books on the topic of […]
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Daniel De Backer • Bernard P. Cholley Michel Slama • Antoine Vieillard-Baron Philippe Vignon (Editors) 2011 Echocardiography in the Critically Ill: Not Just a Diagnostic Tool! Over the past decade, Doppler echocardiography has established itself as an essential element in evaluating hemodynamically unstable patients in intensive care units, operating rooms, and emergency departments.
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Editors Nalini Vadivelu Richard D. Urman Roberta L. Hines 2011 Essentials of Pain Management is a concise yet comprehensive evidence-based guide to what is now recognized as the “fifth vital sign.”We wrote it to provide an in-depth review of clinical principles and procedures that stresses the multidisciplinary, practical approach to pain management.
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Michael St.Pierre • Gesine Hofinger Cornelius Buerschaper • Robert Simon 2011 Human Factors, Team Psychology, and Patient Safety in a High Stakes Environment Providing safe patient care in an acute care setting has always been and still is one of the great challenges of health care. On a regular basis healthcare professionals are faced with problems that […]
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John G. Brock-Utne 2011 As anesthesiologists we are confronted, from time to time, with difficult decisions in “near miss” situations. Fortunately, “near misses” occur rarely, but it is important to be aware that they can occur. This book is a companion to my previous book Clinical Anesthesia: Near Misses and Lessons Learned, published by Springer in 2008.
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Samer N. Narouze 2011 Ultrasonography is a very welcome addition to fluoroscopy and other imaging techniques in interventional pain practice. Over the past few years, interest in ultrasonography in pain medicine (USPM) has been fast growing, as evidenced by the plethora of published papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as presentations at major national and international meetings.
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Edited by Peter Slinger 2011 This book, The Principles and Practice of Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery, is designed to be a comprehensive and up-to-date reference text for all aspects of anesthesia related to noncardiac intrathoracic diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. The goal of this text is to improve the perioperative care of thoracic surgical patients.
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Bruno K. Podesser David J. Chambers (Editors) 2011 An Update in Advanced Perioperative Protection The idea for this book was conceived by Bruno Podesser in 2006, after realizing that there had been no comprehensive summary of myocardial protection during cardiac surgery since a book edited by HM Piper and CJ Preusse in 1993 (Ischemia-Reperfusion in Cardiac Surgery).
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Timothy R. Deer 2011 I am honored to write this foreword to the Atlas of Implantable Therapies for Pain Management. While implantable devices for the treatment of intractable pain have been used for nearly half a century, never before has such a comprehensive atlas been available for the benefit of the pain practitioner.
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Kathirvel Subramaniam Kyung W. Park Balachundhar Subramaniam Editors 2011 Some 15 years ago, as the authors were all working at a high-volume vascular surgical center of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, there was a realization that patients undergoing vascular surgery present the anesthesiologist with a unique set of challenges.
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