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HANDBOOK OF PAEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE
Handbook of Paediatric Intensive Care
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By
Gale Pearson, Consultant Paediatric Intensivist (Head of Speciality), Intensive Care Unit, The Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK

Description
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.

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


Bibliographic details
Paperback, 336 pages, publication date: OCT-2001
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2346-0
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2346-9
Imprint: SAUNDERS


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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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