| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
GómezCarlos M. H., |
| Place of Publication: |
New Jersey |
| Published: |
Imperial College Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
2014 |
| Description: |
1 online resource |
| Series: |
Introductory series in medicine |
| Subject: |
Critical care medicine - |
| Subject: |
Intensive Care - |
| Subject: |
Clinical Medicine - |
| Subject: |
Critical Illness - therapy - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/P640#t=toc |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record |
| Summary: |
Intensive care patients are the most critically ill in any hospital and they are a patient group that utilises a disproportionate amount of medical resources. Intensive care medicine, around for about 40 years, is a relatively recent but globally expanding specialty due to a growing geriartric population of discerning demand for health system. The older generation of intensivists are approaching retirement. The middle generation is trained in various medical specialties and then subspecialised in intensive care. These doctors now lead the way in clinical practice, research, management and trai |
| ISBN: |
9781848163898electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1848163894electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
Foreword from the Series Editor; Foreword; Preface; List of Authors; 1 History of Intensive Care; References; 2 Cardiovascular Physiology; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Cardiac Cycle; 2.3 Ventricular Performance and the Determinants of Cardiac Output; 2.3.1 Ventricular preload; 2.3.2 Ventricular afterload; 2.3.3 Venticular contractility and stroke work; 2.3.4 Stroke volume; 2.3.5 Heart rate; 2.3.6 Ventricular interdependence; 2.4 Coronary Blood Flow; 2.5 Peripheral Circulation; 2.6 The Microcirculation; 2.7 Clinical Case; 2.7.1 What is the diagnosis?; 2.7.2 What next? |