Vimla L. Patel • David R. Kaufman • Trevor Cohen Editors 2014 Case Studies on Critical Care, Complexity and Errors Early in my career, I became fascinated with the area of Cognition and Education, influenced heavily by my interactions with my mentors and colleagues, such as Guy Groen, Carl Frederikson, Walter Kintsch and Robert Glaser. […]
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William R. Reinus Editor 2014 One of the central principles of patient management is that one should only request studies, whether laboratory tests or imaging examinations, on patients when there is reason to believe that the result will affect patient management. While this may appear as a near truism, it is surprising how often this […]
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Mahdi Balali-Mood • Mohammad Abdollahi Editors 2014 Although there have been some books on chemistry and some on toxicology of organophosphorus compounds (OPs), no books have been published which deal with different aspects of these compounds. Consequently, this book aims to bring existing knowledge of OPs together and act as a comprehensive manual on the […]
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Stefano Nava • Francesco Fanfulla 2014 How, When and Why
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Biagio Allaria Editor 2014
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Jesse M. Ehrenfeld • Maxime Cannesson Editors 2014 A Comprehensive Guide to Patient Monitoring Technology This book was written by world-renowned experts who specialize in developing, refining, and testing the technology that makes modern-day clinical monitoring possible. These individuals would like to share with you their excitement for what makes monitoring happen across a variety […]
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Jay A. Yelon • Fred A. Luchette Editors 2014 The new and well-written textbook, Geriatric Trauma and Critical Care (edited by Jay Yelon and Fred Luchette), is a timely and necessary addition to our current body of knowledge on this topic. The existing medical landscape in the United States includes a population of 315 million […]
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Matthias Hübler • Thea Koch Karen B. Domino Editors 2014 Cases – Analysis – Preventive Strategies Do we learn enough from our errors? Probably yes, but we are not learning enough from the errors of others! Our knowledge increases during our professional life as we master more and more critical situations. This is called experience. […]
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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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