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Written by leading American practitioners, the Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine each offer a pocket-sized overview of an entire specialty, featuring instant access to guidance on the conditions that are most likely to be encountered. Precise and prescriptive, the handbooks offer up-to-date advice on examination, investigations, common procedures, and in-patient care. These books will be invaluable resources for residents and students, as well as a useful reference for practitioners.

Part of the most popular medical handbook series in the world, the Oxford American Handbook of Critical Care is a dependable manual geared for ultra-quick reference any time. It is comprehensive enough to serve as a mini-text, yet it is thin and light and uses concise, bulleted text, quick reference tabs, four-color presentation, and bookmark ribbons to help provide fast answers on the ward. Written by an acclaimed team of authors, this Handbook presents information in a succinct, comprehensive, and affordable volume in the proven format of the Oxford Handbook Series.

Why choose the Oxford American Handbook of Critical Care?

The design….

The Handbook uses a unique flexicover design that’s durable and practical. Compact, light, and fits in your pocket! Also has quick reference tabs, four-color presentation, and bookmark ribbons to help provide fast answers.

The iPhone App….

An intuitive iPhone application has been designed for the Handbook with the objective of allowing professional users to access the precise information they need or reference content with a three-click action. Available at http://itunes.com/apps/oxfordamericanhandbookofcriticalcare

The interior layout….

The Handbook is a quick reference in a small, innovative package. With one to two topics per page, it provides easy access and the emergency sections are in red to stand out. Icons throughout aid quick reference.

The information….

The Handbook succinctly covers all the essential topics in a one or two-page spread format with colored headings that break up the text and provide a logical structure for readers of all levels. Common clinical questions are answered clearly and extensively.

The history….

Oxford University Press is known around the world for excellence, tradition, and innovation. These handbooks are among the best selling in the world.

The price….

You get an extremely useful tool at a great value!
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“…one of the best books I have come across…This book has much to commend it, and tackles the complexity of critical care in a rational and logical way. It deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone who is involved with the critically ill, and should be read often.” Khalid Hasan, Doctors.net

“Clinical Intensive Care and Acute Medicine is a comprehensive, well-organizes, critical care companion book and a useful practical guide that concentrates on the relevant areas common to all critically ill patients.”

J. Christopher Farmer MD, Respiratory Care

Book Description

The core of the book focuses on areas common to all critically ill patients including fluid therapy, sedation, shock, infection and other central topics. This key understanding of basic pathophysiological principles provides an excellent launch pad for the section on individual disease entities. The text is supported by numerous problem-oriented guidelines to help the care provider tackle real-life practical problems. This new edition reflects the excitement, challenges and uniqueness of intensive care medicine, for the benefit of all residents, trainees, nursing staff and paramedics attached to the ICU.

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A DAVIS S NOTES BOOK! This pocket-sized quick reference is your go-to guide for the clinical information you need to care for adult patients safely and effectively.

As new scientific information becomes available through basic and clinical research, recommended treatments and drug therapies undergo changes. The author(s) and publisher have done everything possible to make this book accurate, up to date, and in accord with accepted standards at the time of publication. The author(s), editors, and publisher are not responsible for errors or omissions or for consequences from application of the book, and make no warranty, expressed or implied, in regard to the contents of the book.
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Straight from the ACCP Critical Care Medicine Board Review 2012 course, this new interactive online resource is the latest tool in the ACCP s comprehensive study program. Every topic is covered in a concise, easy-to-use format with many enhanced review options.

Navigate valuable board review content easily with a user-friendly, interactive online format; find topics of interest quickly with advanced keyword search capabilities integrated with other ACCP online publications, including CHEST; obtain referenced articles quickly with fully linked-out annotated bibliographies; use as a self-study resource to prepare for the critical care medicine subspecialty board examination.
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Evidence-Based Practice of Critical Care, edited by Drs. Clifford S. Deutschman and Patrick J. Neligan, provides objective data and expert guidance to help answer the most important questions challenging ICU physicians today. It discusses the clinical options, examines the relevant research, and presents expert recommendations on everything from acute organ failure to prevention issues. An outstanding source for “best practices” in critical care medicine, this book is a valuable framework for translating evidence into practice. It also provides access to the full text online, with regular updates to emerging clinical evidence.

Gain valuable evidence-based recommendations on key topics such as acute organ failure, infection, sepsis and inflammation, and prevention issues pointing the way to the most effective approaches.

Get an overview of each question, an outline of management options, a review of the relevant evidence, areas of uncertainty, existing management guidelines, and authors’ recommendations.

Navigate a full range of challenges from routine care to complicated and special situations.

Find the information you need quickly with tables that summarize the available literature and recommended clinical approaches.

Stay current on the latest advances in the field with full-text, online access that includes regular updates to emerging clinical evidence

Written by the multidisciplinary intensive care unit staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Fifth Edition of this best-selling handbook is a practical, complete, and current guide to medical and surgical critical care. In a user-friendly outline format designed for rapid reference, this pocket-sized book presents reliable, hospital-tested protocols that reflect today’s most advanced critical care practices.

This edition includes new chapters on disaster preparedness in the ICU, quality improvement and prophylaxis, non-antibiotic therapies for sepsis, and use of ultrasound in the ICU. An appendix provides supplemental drug information.
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Product Description

A completely new editorial team presents a radical revision to this leading critical care text, previously edited by Shoemaker et al. The New Edition delivers today’s best coverage of both adult and pediatric critical care, with contributions from an impressive roster of world experts. In addition to numerous new chapters and many extensively rewritten ones, it features a completely new section on commonly encountered problems and a new, more user-friendly organiza¬tion. What’s more, it is also now available in a multimedia T package that combines the book with access to a fully searchable, continuously updated web site.

• Covers both adult and pediatric critical care.
• Features the authority of the top names in critical care from around the world, including an outstanding new editorial team as well as authors who are among the most highly respected researchers, instructors, and clinicians in the field.

• Offers a brand-new section that provides quick access to practical guidance on the problems most frequently encountered in the ICU.
• Explores hot new topics such as Inter- and Intra-Hospital Transport, Disaster Medicine for the ICU Physician, and Teaching Critical Care.
• Provides a new, more user-friendly organization.
• Presents only the most essential references within the text, with the rest provided on the enclosed CD-ROM.
• Is available in a multimedia package that combines the book with access to a fully searchable, continuously updated web site!.

With over 525 additional contributing experts