Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine

Selected as a Doodys Core Title for 2022! With a focus on evidence-based state-of-the-art information throughout the eighth edition of Irwin and Rippes Intensive Care Medicine offers authoritative guidance to the wide variety of specialty physicians and non-physicians practicing in the adult intensive care environment. This comprehensive textbook covers both the theoretical and practical aspects of the field and has been completely updated to provide encyclopedic interprofessional coverage to support practitioners in every area of this complex field. Features: Approaches intensive care from an interprofessional collaborative perspective encompassing anesthesia surgery trauma and neurology as well as cardiovascular and medical intensive care. Maintains a practical clinically-oriented approach with comprehensive sections on procedures techniques and ultrasound; minimally invasive monitoring; pharmacology overdoses and poisoning; infectious disease; transplantation; critical care consequences of agents of mass destruction; and many more. Features many new chapters and an entirely new section on Palliative Care and Ethical Issues in the Critical Care Unit. Reflects the rising importance of point-of-care ultrasonography with five hours of expertly narrated video embedded into 23 relevant chapters clearly depicting the ideal use of this tool for intensivists . Includes a section on ICU Design Organization Operation and Outcome Measures that addresses important changes and advances regarding safety clinical practice guidelines decreasing the cost of care tele-ICU and more. Provides extensive updates reflecting advances in cardiovascular intensive care surgical critical care shock and trauma and sepsis management. Includes recommendations reflecting randomized controlled clinical trials summarized when possible in quick-reference tables throughout. Your book purchase includes a complimentary download of the enhanced eBook for iOS Android PC & Mac. Take advantage of these practical features that will improve your eBook experience: The ability to download the eBook on multiple devices at one time providing a seamless reading experience online or offline Powerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that allow you to search within this book or across your entire library of VitalSource eBooks Multiple viewing options that enable you to scale images and text to any size without losing page clarity as well as responsive design The ability to highlight text and add notes with one click