Michael A. DeVita ● Ken Hillman Rinaldo Bellomo Editors 2011 Concept and Implementation When we created the Manual of Medical Emergency Teams (MET), Implementation and Outcome Measurement, the concept was relatively new. The term MET was not well recognized and had different meanings to different people.
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Tom A. Hutchinson Editor 2011 A New Paradigm for the 21st Century This is a book primarily by physicians, for physicians and medical students. For this reason, we have used the terms physician and doctor frequently throughout the book and have looked at medicine mainly from the perspective of the physician rather than from other perspectives that would […]
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Steven L. Cohn (Editor) 2011 Preoperative risk assessment and perioperative management are important aspects of clinical practice in internal medicine. Whereas surgeons and anesthesiologists spend most of their time caring for patients in the perioperative period, many primary-care physicians and hospitalists may feel inadequately trained or uncomfortable in this setting.
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Sandra L. Kane-Gill • Joseph Dasta (Editors) 2011 Critically ill patients are at risk for a higher frequency and severity of adverse drug events (ADEs) compared to non-critically ill patients. A contributing factor to this risk is the use of high-risk medications in the treatment of critically ill patients, often in combination. High-risk medications as […]
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F. Michael Gloth, III Editor 2011 An Evidence-Based Approach Since publication of the first edition of the Handbook of Pain Relief in Older Adults, much has changed. Drugs once felt to be safer for older adults have been removed from the market for safety reasons.
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Loren M. Fishman · Allen N. Wilkins 2011 Provocative Maneuvers in Electrodiagnosis In the course of electrodiagnostic examinations over what is, taken together, more than 30 years of practice, we have noticed changes in what were ostensibly immutable parameters. An individual’s nerve conduction velocities or occasionally absolute or interpeak latencies in somatosensory-evoked potentials seemed at times to vary with […]
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Biagio Allaria Editor 2012 For specialists whose work involves caring for critical patients, it is particularly useful to assess matters that are of considerable interest in the management of such patients, where clear ideas and the ability to make important decisions quickly are necessary.
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Antoun Koht ● Tod B. Sloan J. Richard Toleikis Editors 2012 Intraoperative monitoring of the nervous system (IOM) has become common place in orthopedics, neurosurgery, otologic surgery, vascular surgery, and other procedures. In addition to the improvement in patient outcome which has been observed in several circumstances, the monitoring has been incorporated into the management of surgical procedures where the […]
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Editor: Jürgen Schüttler 2012 In 2003 a book had been published commemorating the 50th anniversary of the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI). Since then we have worked hard to realize an English version of this book as many colleagues from abroad had requested for. Now we are pleased to offer you the history of […]
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Philip M. Hartigan Editor 2012 The vast majority of the roughly 200,000 thoracic surgical procedures this year will take place in centers where there is no dedicated, subspecialized thoracic anesthesia service.
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