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This book provides a practical and comprehensive guide to delivering analgesia and sedation to critically ill patients for professionals and caregivers being involved in the management of these patients. It discusses and explains in detail the advantages and limitations of each drug and device using clear flowcharts, diagrams and tables. Furthermore, it explores the new drugs and – above all – new sedation delivery systems, particularly those for administering volatile anesthetics on ICUs. Written by respected experts in the field, this book is a valuable and practical resource for anesthesists, intensivists and emergency physicians interested in sedation.

Anesthesia. --- Sedatives. --- Medicine. --- Anesthesiology. --- Emergency medicine. --- Critical care medicine. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Intensive / Critical Care Medicine. --- Emergency Medicine. --- Central nervous system depressants --- Anaesthesia --- Anesthesiology --- Analgesia --- Medicine, Emergency --- Medicine --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Intensive care units --- Anaesthesiology --- Surgery --- Anesthesia --- Critical Care --- Critical Illness --- methods --- Critically Ill --- Critical Illnesses --- Illness, Critical --- Illnesses, Critical

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This well-illustrated book provides detailed guidance on all aspects of physical examination in patients requiring emergency or intensive care. After an introductory section covering basic principles and the recognition of pre-terminal signs, the approach to examination of individual organ systems is clearly explained. Examination schemes are then presented for particular conditions or settings, including respiratory distress, shock, neurological disease, trauma, suspected infection, and cardiac arrest. The skill of physical examination has become the forgotten art of medicine in both undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Furthermore, most books on the topic have so far focused on examination practices applicable to non-critically ill patients. In emergency and intensive care medicine, however, a different approach and sometimes also different examination techniques are required due to the life-threatening disease process. In summarizing knowledge and providing guidance on physical examination in this specific subgroup of patients, this book will meet the needs of all physicians and allied health care professionals involved in the care of critically ill patients.

Critical care medicine. --- Emergency medicine --- Emergency medical diagnosis --- Medical emergencies --- Diagnosis --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Medicine --- Intensive care units --- Diagnosis. --- Emergency medicine. --- Anesthesiology. --- Surgery. --- Intensive / Critical Care Medicine. --- Emergency Medicine. --- Surgery, Primitive --- Anaesthesiology --- Surgery --- Medicine, Emergency --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Critical Care --- Physical Examination --- Critical Illness --- Adult --- methods --- therapy --- Adults