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Professor Jeremy Ward is our champion at a Glance author. He has authored The Respiratory System at a Glance, co-authored the Cardiovascular System at a Glance and is also collaborating on this title. He currently teaches at Guy's King's and St Thomas.
Professor Sylvester is a Critical Care expert based at John Hopkins in the US.
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Management of the Critically Ill Patient
Monitoring in Critical Care Medicine
Oxygen Transport
Shock
Circulatory Support: Fluid and Inotropes
Oxygenation Failure and Oxygen Therapy
Airways Management
Non-Invasive Ventilation
Endotracheal Intubation
Mechanical Ventilation
Respiratory Management, Weaning and Tracheostomy
Arterial Blood Gases and Acid Base Balance
Sedation, Analgesia and Paralysis
Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
Hypothermia and Hyperthermia
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) and Sepsis
End of Life Issues .
PART 2 MEDICAL.
Cardiac.
18. Acute Coronary Syndromes.
19. Arrhythmias.
20. Heart Failure and Pulmonary Oedema.
21. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.
22. Cardiac Emergencies.
Respiratory.
23. Pneumonia.
24. Asthma.
25. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
26. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
27. Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism.
28. Pneumothorax and Air Leaks.
29. Respiratory Emergencies.
Renal and metabolic.
30. Acute Renal Failure; Pathophysiology and Clinical Aspects.
31. Acute Renal failure; Management + Renal Replacement Therapy.
32. Diabetic Emergencies.
33. Endocrine Emergencies.
Gastrointestinal.
34. Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage.
35. Acute Liver Failure.
36. Acute Pancreatitis.
Neurological.
37. Altered mental Status, Coma and Status Epilepticus.
38. Neurological Emergencies: Stroke.
39. Neurological Emergencies: Infective.
40. Neuromuscular Conditions.
Other Systems.
41. Transfusion and Coagulation Disorders.
42. Drug Overdose and Poisoning.
43. The Immune Compromised Patient.
PART 3 SURGICAL.
44. Trauma.
45. Head Injury.
46. Chest Trauma.
47. Acute Abdominal Emergencies.
48. Obstetric Emergencies.
49. Burns, Toxic Inhalation and Electrical Injuries.
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I think this book would come in handy for the A&E attachment in the third year, Obs&Gynae in the fourth, and surely for most of the general medicine and surgical attachments in the fifth."
-Black Bag, Bristol Medical Magazine. Winter 2005.
