Jonathan L. Benumof Editor 2014 Lessons Learned from Morbidity and Mortality Conferences This book is a compilation of selected cases presented at the weekly University of California San Diego Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology Morbidity and Mortality (M&M)/Quality Improvement (QIC) conference that I moderated over the last 4–5 years.
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Fernando Alemanno • Mario Bosco • Aldo Barbati Editors 2014 A State of the Art Guide The second decade of the last century was a magical time for regional anesthesia of the upper extremity. It was the period that witnessed the advent of the four most important percutaneous brachial plexus block techniques: Hirschel’s axillary technique […]
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Daniel M. Gainsburg Ethan O. Bryson Elizabeth A.M. Frost Editors 2014 Recognition of urology as a specialty within surgery occurred fairly recently. However, for hundreds, if not thousands of years, uroscopy, from which urology derives, was the basis of medical practice. The ancient Greeks, Babylonians, and Egyptians, to name just a few, used the inspection […]
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Corey S. Scher Editor 2014 New Evidence and New Challenges I keep time through a conglomeration of the media, the music industry, and film. My first exposure to trauma was through the nightly telecasts of the war in Viet Nam by the partnership of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley of NBC news. Walter Cronkite was […]
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Zahid Hussain Khan Editor 2014 Airway management is an integral part of a multitude of medical specialties, including critical care, emergency medicine, pulmonary medicine, surgery, and of course, anesthesia. It is difficult, if not impossible, to properly credit the first person to ‘‘manage the airway,’’ in part because many maneuvers are now considered an integral […]
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Yuan-Chi Lin • Eric Shen-Zen Hsu Editors 2014 The book Acupuncture for Pain Management features practical information for incorporating acupuncture into the practice of pain medicine. It is written for clinicians interested in integrating acupuncture into pain management.
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Antonino Gullo • Giuseppe Ristagno Editors 2014 Translational Research, Clinical Evidence, Education, Guidelines Three years have passed since the last guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care and the new one is underway and expected to be released during 2015. Thus, this volume has the purpose to assemble updates on Resuscitation science from international […]
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Joseph Varon, Robert E. Fromm, Jr. 2014 The fields of Acute and Critical Care Medicine are relatively new. Over the past few decades, we have seen an enormous growth in the number of intensive care units (ICUs) and free standing Emergency Departments (EDs) in the USA. Thousands of medical students, residents, fellows, attending physicians, critical […]
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Sergio Sandrucci • Baudolino Mussa Editors 2014 Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs), used since the 1940s for hemodynamic measurement and with a limited clinical role, were reintroduced in the 1970s as an alternative to non-tunnelled central vascular catheters (CVCs) for the delivery of total parenteral nutrition. Initially, polyethylene catheters were used, but their use was […]
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Marc Leone • Claude Martin Jean-Louis Vincent Editors 2014 This book aims to provide concise and pragmatic guidelines to clinicians managing patients with uncommon diseases at the bedside.After a brief introduction,the book is divided into m nine chapters including several questions.Each chapter is related to either a specific organ (heart and vessels, lungs, nervous system, skin, kidneys, liver) […]
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