Handbook of Paediatric Intensive Care
By- Gale Pearson, Consultant Paediatric Intensivist (Head of Speciality), Intensive Care Unit, The Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK
HANDBOOK OF PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE is a highly practical guide to the care of very sick children, giving clear and concise advice on diagnosis and management. The book is divided into two parts -- the first covers general topics that orient the reader to the environment of pediatric intensive care, the second takes an organ-system approach, with consideration of specific diagnoses and interventions.
Audience
Trainee and practising pediatricians, trainee and practising intensive care specialists, pediatric anaesthetists, pediatric intensivists.
Paperback, 336 Pages
Published: October 2001
Imprint: Saunders
ISBN: 978-0-7020-2346-0
Contents
- An Introduction to PICU
- Resuscitation
- Transport
- Audit and Performance
- Anaesthesia
- Neonatology
- Fluids, Electrolytes and Blood
- Nutrition
- Pharmacology
- Metabolic Intensive Care
- Respiratory System
- Cardiovascular System
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Central Nervous System
- Host Defence
- Physics for the Intensivist
- Ingestion and Poisoning
- Dying on the PICU
