Critical Care Secrets by Polly E. Parsons, Jeanine P. Wiener-Kronish

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This best-selling volume in The Secrets Series™ is back in an exciting, fully updated 4th Edition! You'll find all of the features you rely on the Secrets for—such as a question-and-answer format
• bulleted lists
• mnemonics
• "Key Points" boxes
• and tips from the authors.

• Equips you with the evidence-based guidance you need to provide optima care for the critically ill.
• Expedites reference and review with a question-and-answer format, bulleted lists, mnemonics, and practical tips from the authors.
• Features a two-color page layout, "Key Points" boxes, and lists of useful web sites to enhance your reference power.
• Presents a chapter containing "Top Secrets", providing you with an overview of essential material for last-minute study or self-assessment

• Provides coverage of the principles of gas and fluid flow
  • pulmonary mechanics
  • and electronic circuitry.
• Discusses protocols and guidelines.
• Offers effective solutions to patients' medical and ethical problems from a wide range of specialists such as pulmonologists
  
  • surgeons
  • anesthesiologists
  • psychiatrists
  • pharmacists
  • and infectious disease experts.

David J. Dries

This second edition of a multiauthored text reviews common facts involved in critical care management. Junior house officers and medical students will find a summary of common facts used to introduce critical care concepts in a question and answer format. The student or junior house officer is the appropriate audience for this work. Editors and contributors represent multidisciplinary critical care programs, with many of the contributors coming from the University of Colorado and the University of California, San Francisco. Topics begin with basic life support and fundamental procedures and span individual organ system considerations in the intensive care unit. Additional sections are devoted to surgery and trauma, perioperative care, radiology and emergency medicine support, toxicology, psychiatry, and administrative concerns. Tables are infrequent and illustrations rare. Each chapter contains a brief reference list of important but not necessarily recent work. Often reviews are cited instead of original studies. The table of contents divides chapters by organ system. A detailed index lists information reviewed on specific pages as well as broader topics covered by entire chapters. As the editors admit, this is not a standard text book. It provides many of the details contributing to a fundamental discussion of critical care topics. For deeper exploration and integration, a standard text book is necessary. Nonetheless, I found this an interesting collection of information bits, useful to anyone new to the ICU.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:David J. Dries, MD (University of Minnesota Medical School)
Description:This second edition of a multiauthored text reviews common facts involved in critical care management.
Purpose:Junior house officers and medical students will find a summary of common facts used to introduce critical care concepts in a question and answer format.
Audience:The student or junior house officer is the appropriate audience for this work. Editors and contributors represent multidisciplinary critical care programs, with many of the contributors coming from the University of Colorado and the University of California, San Francisco.
Features:Topics begin with basic life support and fundamental procedures and span individual organ system considerations in the intensive care unit. Additional sections are devoted to surgery and trauma, perioperative care, radiology and emergency medicine support, toxicology, psychiatry, and administrative concerns. Tables are infrequent and illustrations rare. Each chapter contains a brief reference list of important but not necessarily recent work. Often reviews are cited instead of original studies. The table of contents divides chapters by organ system. A detailed index lists information reviewed on specific pages as well as broader topics covered by entire chapters.
Assessment:As the editors admit, this is not a standard text book. It provides many of the details contributing to a fundamental discussion of critical care topics. For deeper exploration and integration, a standard text book is necessary. Nonetheless, I found this an interesting collection of information bits, useful toanyone new to the ICU.

Rating

2 Stars from Doody

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