The chapters in this eBook
include topics from cardiology, nephrology, pulmonary, infectious disease
(including sepsis), neuro-critical care, burns, and gastroenterology. Highly
specialized topics have been left to qualified authors of other specialty texts.
Each chapter is meant to provide pertinent clinical, diagnostic, and management
strategies when caring for critically ill patients.
This note covers introduction,
Role of staff nurse in emergency, burns and trauma care, Clinical functions of
staff nurse in emergency, burns and trauma care general measures and specific
management for common emergency conditions.
Author(s): Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare Government of India
The target audience
for this on-line manual is the resident trainees at Boston Medical Center. The
goal is to facilitate learning of critical care medicine. Topics covered
includes: Oxygen Delivery Devices, Airways and Mechanical Ventilation,
Cardiopulmonary Critical Care, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and
Ventilator-Associated Lung Injury, Nutrition in the ICU, Compartment Syndromes,
Blood Products in the ICU
This note covers the following topics: Classifying Disasters,
Definitions and Terminology, Phases of Disaster Response, External and Internal
Planning.
This
article explains the critical care procedures related to the following
medical fields: Airway and Ventilator Management, Cardiovascular System,
Central Nervous System, Gastrointestinal System, Immune System and
Sepsis, Pulmonology and Toxicology.
The purpose of this manual is to teach the
soldier what he can do for himself or a fellow soldier if injury or
sickness occurs when no medical officer or Medical Department soldier is
nearby.