Clinical Encyclopedia of Intensive Care & Emergency Medicine Handbook: A Bedside Guide to Resuscitation, Organ Support, and Acute Stabilization - Softcover

Bazan, Danielle J.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798190843729

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Can you recognize septic shock before the blood pressure falls? Do you know why calcium protects the heart in hyperkalemia but doesn't lower the potassium? When a patient is crashing at 3 a.m., will you reach for the right algorithm or hesitate?

In critical care and emergency medicine, hesitation costs lives. The problem isn't a lack of information it's that the information you need is scattered across a dozen textbooks, buried in dense guidelines, and impossible to find in the seconds that matter. You're expected to master everything from airway management to end-of-life conversations, yet no single resource walks you through it the way you actually practice: fast, physiology-first, and at the bedside.
The Clinical Encyclopedia of Intensive Care & Emergency Medicine Handbook fixes that.

This is a complete, 15-chapter bedside reference built the way clinicians think moving from recognition to resuscitation to definitive care, in plain second-person language, with the mechanism that makes each decision make sense. No fluff. No filler. Just verified clinical content you can act on.

Inside, you'll master:

• The failing patient, fast — triage, oxygen delivery, airway management and RSI, and the four shock states, so you recognize and stabilize before the crisis becomes an arrest
• Sepsis and organ support — the Hour-1 bundle, mechanical ventilation and weaning, and ECMO, explained from first principles
• Every organ-system emergency cardiac arrest and ACLS, stroke and raised ICP, trauma and massive transfusion, toxicology and antidotes, DKA and electrolyte crises, and severe infection
• The procedures that save lives central lines, chest drains, lumbar puncture, and point-of-care ultrasound, with the safety rules that prevent catastrophe
• The human side that textbooks skip crisis leadership, goals-of-care conversations, and end-of-life care that protect your patients and you

Why this handbook earns its place in your coat pocket:

• Diagrams, ECG traces, algorithms, and tables on every topic see the concept, don't just read it
• Worked clinical scenarios that walk you through the full reasoning chain, presentation to management
• Practice questions with explained answers to lock in what you've learned
• Drug doses as reference ranges with clear safety caveats built for real prescribing
• Landmark trials reported honestly actual results, not manufactured consensus

Whether you're a resident facing your first unsupervised night, a nurse or allied-health professional building confidence in the resus room, or an experienced clinician who wants one trusted reference that covers it all this handbook meets you where you practice and makes you faster, sharper, and safer.

Stop scrambling between resources when seconds count. Get the one handbook that puts the whole of intensive care and emergency medicine in your hands and be ready before the next patient crashes.

Scroll up and click "Add to Cart" to keep it at your bedside today.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798190843729
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 350
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg