House Officer's Guide to ICU Care: Fundamentals of Management of the Heart and Lungs

Book info: House Officer's Guide to ICU Care: Fundamentals of Management of the Heart and Lungs (Paperback, 510 pages) – Cardiotext Publishing, 2012. Language: English.

The Must-Have Guide for Navigating the ICU

The House Officer's Guide to ICU Care is an eminently practical handbook for junior house officers, medical students, PAs, and nurses that offers nuts-and-bolts guidelines for optimal management of medical and surgical patients in the ICU setting. Using clear, straightforward language, the authors methodically guide clinicians through the decision-making process, first by outlining the pathophysiology of abnormalities seen in the ICU and then by explaining the principles underlying today's therapeutic measures and describing how these agents and devices are used to ensure safe patient recovery. While the text focuses on the postoperative cardiothoracic surgery patient, the principles and therapies covered are broadly relevant to all medical and general surgery ICU patients.

This third edition has been thoroughly updated to include the newest diagnostic and treatment technologies, procedures, and practices, and covers everything the house officer needs to know to deliver safe, effective, front-line care - especially during those times when senior staff are not there to rely on. Updated references, self-assessment tools, and an Emergency Response Sheet of essential paradigms, drugs, and doses will ensure confident decision-making when it counts the most.

For the house officer, this book gives you everything you need to know, and not a word more.

Especially useful for:

- house officers and medical students embarking on ICU responsibilities- intensive care nurses and nurses in training- physicians' assistants- respiratory therapists

Editorial Reviews Review Important concepts were easy to understand for both the novice and more experienced ICU provider. Another strength noted was the degree of cardiology content integrated into ICU material. The illustrations depicted were also simple and easy to understand. The book was interesting and would be easy to read for a variety of healthcare practitioners, such as registered nurses, residents, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants, or even respiratory therapists. We highly recommend this book. --Critical Care Medicine: February 2014 - Volume 42 - Issue 2 About the Author John A. Elefteriades, MD, William W.L. Glenn Professor of Surgery; Director, Aortic Institute at Yale-New Haven, Yale University School of Medicine

Curtis Tribble, MD, Professor of Surgery, University of Mississippi

Alexander S. Geha, MD, MS, Professor & Chief Emeritus, Cardiothoracic Surgery; Univ. of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago; Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery; University of California at San Diego Medical Center

Mark Siegel, MD, Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary); Yale University School of Medicine

Lawrence S. Cohen, MD, The Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor of Medicine (Emeritus), Yale University School of Medicine