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Author : J. Randall Curtis,Gordon D. Rubenfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195128819
A clear and concise statement of facts and causes that have led step by step to the present deplorable condition of public affairs and the corruption of the body politic"--Preface.
Author : Committee on Care at the End of Life,Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309518253
When the end of life makes its inevitable appearance, people should be able to expect reliable, humane, and effective caregiving. Yet too many dying people suffer unnecessarily. While an "overtreated" dying is feared, untreated pain or emotional abandonment are equally frightening. Approaching Death reflects a wide-ranging effort to understand what we know about care at the end of life, what we have yet to learn, and what we know but do not adequately apply. It seeks to build understanding of what constitutes good care for the dying and offers recommendations to decisionmakers that address specific barriers to achieving good care. This volume offers a profile of when, where, and how Americans die. It examines the dimensions of caring at the end of life: Determining diagnosis and prognosis and communicating these to patient and family. Establishing clinical and personal goals. Matching physical, psychological, spiritual, and practical care strategies to the patient's values and circumstances. Approaching Death considers the dying experience in hospitals, nursing homes, and other settings and the role of interdisciplinary teams and managed care. It offers perspectives on quality measurement and improvement, the role of practice guidelines, cost concerns, and legal issues such as assisted suicide. The book proposes how health professionals can become better prepared to care well for those who are dying and to understand that these are not patients for whom "nothing can be done."
Author : Graeme Rocker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199239245
This book highlights real clinical issues which need to be addressed if quality palliative care within ICUs is to be consistently delivered. It is presented in an easily accessible, bullet pointed style, and is illustrated with case histories from real-life patients, and drug tables.
Author : Kaushal Shah,Jarone Lee,Clark G. Owyang,Benjamin Christian Renne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781009055628
The second edition of a succinct and portable text reviewing the clinical approach to emergency medicine and critical care.
Author : Dr. Gilly Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Intensive care units
ISBN : 3838327829
Author : SUSAN. LOWEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1096517749
Author : Webb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1961 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198855439
Now in paperback, the second edition of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Care is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary text covering all aspects of adult intensive care management. Uniquely this text takes a problem-orientated approach providing a key resource for daily clinical issues in the intensive care unit. The text is organized into short topics allowing readers to rapidly access authoritative information on specific clinical problems. Each topic refers to basic physiological principles and provides up-to-date treatment advice supported by references to the most vital literature. Where international differences exist in clinical practice, authors cover alternative views. Key messages summarise each topic in order to aid quick review and decision making. Edited and written by an international group of recognized experts from many disciplines, the second edition of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Careprovides an up-to-date reference that is relevant for intensive care units and emergency departments globally. This volume is the definitive text for all health care providers, including physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other allied health professionals who take care of critically ill patients.
Author : Tilda Shalof
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781551991412
The team of nurses that Tilda Shalof found herself working with in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a big-city hospital was known as “Laura’s Line.” They were a bit wild: smart, funny, disrespectful of authority, but also caring and incredibly committed to their jobs. Laura set the tone with her quick remarks. Frances, from Newfoundland, was famous for her improvised recipes. Justine, the union rep, wore t-shirts emblazoned with defiant slogans, like “Nurses Care But It’s Not in the Budget.” Shalof was the one who had been to university. The others accused her of being “sooo sensitive.” They depended upon one another. Working in the ICU was both emotionally grueling and physically exhausting. Many patients, quite simply, were dying, and the staff strove mightily to prolong their lives. With their skill, dedication, and the resources of modern science, they sometimes were almost too successful. Doctors and nurses alike wondered if what they did for terminally-ill patients was not, in some cases, too extreme. A number of patients were admitted when it was too late even for heroic measures. A boy struck down by a cerebral aneurysm in the middle of a little-league hockey game. A woman rescued – too late – from a burning house. It all took its toll on the staff. And yet, on good days, they thrived on what they did. Shalof describes a colleague who is managing a “crashing” patient: “I looked at her. Nicky was flushed with excitement. She was doing five different things at the same time, planning ahead for another five. She was totally focused, in her element, in control, completely at home with the chaos. There was a huge smile on her face. Nurses like to fix things. If they can.” Shalof, a veteran ICU nurse, reveals what it is really like to work behind the closed hospital curtains. The drama, the sardonic humour, the grinding workload, the cheerful camaraderie, the big issues and the small, all are brought vividly to life in this remarkable book.
Author : Elisabeth Kübler-Ross,David Kessler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781476775555
The authors explain how Kubler-Rosss famous "Five Stages of Dying" apply directly to mourners themselves. In this, her final book, completed shortly before her death, the authors own experiences and spiritual insight explain how the grief process helps survivors live with loss.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Approaching Death: Addressing Key End-of-Life Issues
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309303132
For patients and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made near the end of life. Unfortunately, the experience of dying in the United States is often characterized by fragmented care, inadequate treatment of distressing symptoms, frequent transitions among care settings, and enormous care responsibilities for families. According to this report, the current health care system of rendering more intensive services than are necessary and desired by patients, and the lack of coordination among programs increases risks to patients and creates avoidable burdens on them and their families. Dying in America is a study of the current state of health care for persons of all ages who are nearing the end of life. Death is not a strictly medical event. Ideally, health care for those nearing the end of life harmonizes with social, psychological, and spiritual support. All people with advanced illnesses who may be approaching the end of life are entitled to access to high-quality, compassionate, evidence-based care, consistent with their wishes. Dying in America evaluates strategies to integrate care into a person- and family-centered, team-based framework, and makes recommendations to create a system that coordinates care and supports and respects the choices of patients and their families. The findings and recommendations of this report will address the needs of patients and their families and assist policy makers, clinicians and their educational and credentialing bodies, leaders of health care delivery and financing organizations, researchers, public and private funders, religious and community leaders, advocates of better care, journalists, and the public to provide the best care possible for people nearing the end of life.
Author : Helen Stanton Chapple
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781598744033
This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals, occupying space but few billable encounters and of little interest to medical practice or quality control. An anthropologist and bioethicist with two decades of professional nursing experience, Helen Chapple goes beyond current work on hospital care to present fine-grained accounts of the clinicians, patients, and families who navigate this uncharted, untidy, and unpredictable territory between the highly choreographed project of rescue and the clinical culmination of death.
Author : Ali Al-Khafaji
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199768899
Pre- and post-operative care of transplant patients is an aspect of Critical Care Medicine in which most ICU physicians and nurses have received little or no formal training and are left to cope with this complex population with only spotty, incomplete 'on-the-job experience' as a guide. In response to this clinical knowledge gap, this book provides a concise 'at the bedside' resource for clinicians caring for abdominal organ transplant patients before and after surgery.
Author : Bertrand Guidet,Andreas Valentin,Hans Flaatten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107503861
One of the first comprehensive summaries of the latest thinking and research in improving intensive care quality and patient safety.
Author : Jennifer A. LaRosa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319944241
This clinical casebook provides a comprehensive yet concise state-of-the-art review of adult critical care medicine. Presented in a case-based format, each case focuses on a scenario commonly encountered with an adult patient in the ICU. Case scenarios include management of seizures and acute intracranial hypertension, sepsis, liver failure, brain death, bleeding and thrombosis, and treating hospital acquired infections in the ICU. Written by experts in the field, Adult Critical Care Medicine: A Clinical Casebook is a valuable resource for critical care specialists and practitioners who treat adult patients in critical care settings.
Author : Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter, M.D.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781101982570
For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care—to become an ICU physician—and imagined herself swooping in to rescue patients from the brink of death. But then during her first code she found herself cracking the ribs of a patient so old and frail it was unimaginable he would ever come back to life. She began to question her choice. Extreme Measures charts Zitter’s journey from wanting to be one kind of hero to becoming another—a doctor who prioritizes the patient’s values and preferences in an environment where the default choice is the extreme use of technology. In our current medical culture, the old and the ill are put on what she terms the End-of-Life Conveyor belt. They are intubated, catheterized, and even shelved away in care facilities to suffer their final days alone, confused, and often in pain. In her work Zitter has learned what patients fear more than death itself: the prospect of dying badly. She builds bridges between patients and caregivers, formulates plans to allay patients’ pain and anxiety, and enlists the support of loved ones so that life can end well, even beautifully. Filled with rich patient stories that make a compelling medical narrative, Extreme Measures enlarges the national conversation as it thoughtfully and compassionately examines an experience that defines being human.