Section 7 Disease Management in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit: Incidence; Aetiology; Diagnosis; Prognosis; Treatment 44 Respiratory Disorders: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Alastair Proudfoot and Charlotte Summers Definitions and Epidemiology…
Section 6 Perioperative Care: The Patient Post Cardiac Surgery 37 Management after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery Sam Nashef and Paolo Bosco Professor Kolesov performed the first beating-heart left internal…
Section 8 Provision and Delivery of Cardiothoracic Intensive Care 53 Cardiothoracic Critical Care Nursing, Outreach and Follow-up Jo-anne Fowles Introduction Caring for the critically ill cardiothoracic patient requires a multidisciplinary…
Section 4 Advanced Organ Support 21 Percutaneous Mechanical Circulatory Support Evgeny Pavlushkov and Marius Berman Short-term mechanical circulatory support (MCS) devices are used to maintain haemodynamic stability in cardiogenic shock…
Section 3 Therapeutic Intervention 12 Antibiotics in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit Oana Cole and Olly Allen The modern era of antibiotics starts with the discovery of penicillin by Alexander…
Section 1 Diagnosis 1 History and Examination Lachlan Miles and Joseph E Arrowsmith The first rule of diagnosis, gentlemen! Eyes: first and most; hands: next and least; tongue: not at…
Section 2 Practical Procedures 8 Airway Management in Cardiothoracic Intensive Care: Intubation and Tracheostomy Martin John and Christiana Burt The ability to safely secure and manage a definitive airway on…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In this chapter, we consider 3 issues that can improve your conduct of mental health care: working as a team, referral, and personal awareness. The first…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Personality is a complex concept—and an important one: it reflects human beings’ basic psychological infrastructure.1,2 This means that it plays a critical role in determining how…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen We consider psychotic disorders to reside primarily in the domain of psychiatry. But primary care and other medical physicians almost always see these patients at some…
