Category: Critical Care and Emergency Medicine

Chemical Skin Injury

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Howard I. Maibach • Alan H. Hall Editors 2014 Mechanisms, Prevention, Decontamination, Treatment The fundamentals of acute irritant dermatitis (acute irritation, chemical burn, corrosion) – including chemical description, histology (dermatopathology), prevention, and development of predictive animal models – were well established by the mid-twentieth century. Pioneers of special note include Louis Schwartz and John Draize (USA). Yet, acute irritant […]

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Alcohol Use Disorders and the Lung

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Alcohol Use Disorders and the Lung-1

David M. Guidot • Ashish J. Mehta Editors 2014 A Clinical and Pathophysiological Approach Lung health is a precious commodity and is essential for human productivity as well as the quality of our individual lives. Unfortunately, there is a worldwide increase in mortality from lung diseases of various types that stands in sharp contradistinction to the declines in […]

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Pediatric Ultrasound

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Michael Riccabona 2014 Requisites and Applications Ultrasound (US) has become the mainstay of paediatric radiology, particularly as neonates, infants and children offer ideal scanning conditions. Furthermore, with growing concern about radiation risks imposed to children for medical imaging, it has become even more important to exploit all options US may offer. Numerous papers have been written on this topic […]

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Imaging the ICU Patient

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Florian Falter • Nicholas J. Screaton Editors 2014 The vast majority of intensive care patients will have at least one form of radiological investigation during their stay on an intensive care unit. Whether it is a bedside chest X-ray or a magnetic resonance angiography, both intensivists and radiologists  need to have a thorough understanding of the indication, […]

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Practical Guide to Neurovascular Emergencies

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Guillaume Saliou • Marie Théaudin Claire Join-Lambert Vincent Raphaëlle Souillard-Scemama 2014 A group of four young neuroradiologists and neurologists (Guillaume Saliou, Marie Théaudin, Claire Join-Lambert and Raphaëlle Souillard-Scemama) has rightly placed neuroimaging at the very heart of this book on neurovascular emergencies, as no evidence-based emergency treatment is available for subjects with sudden onset of hemiplegia or aphasia without […]

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Marginal Donors

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Takehide Asano • Norihide Fukushima Takashi Kenmochi • Naoto Matsuno Editors 2014 Current and Future Status Organ procurement from brain-dead donors was not socially accepted for a long time in Japan. For that reason, organ transplantation in this country involved accumulating experience in using organs from donors after circulatory death (DCDs) and from living donors, adhering for the […]

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Management of Musculoskeletal Injuries in the Trauma Patient

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Wade R. Smith • Philip F. Stahel Editors 2014 Management of Musculoskeletal Injuries in the Trauma Patient is a first- edition textbook written in the multidisciplinary spirit of modern trauma care. The genesis of the project originated during a course at the annual American College of Surgeons meeting in Chicago entitled Orthopedic Trauma Emergencies . This symposium was aimed […]

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Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

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Ferdinando Agresta Fabio Cesare Campanile Nereo Vettoretto Editors 2014 An Evidence-Based Guide “Long Branch, NJ – United States, 1990. It must have been the end of March; I was a junior surgical resident, making rounds, as every day, on the many patients in the service. It looked like an ordinary day at Monmouth Medical Center; Dr Mark […]

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