10th edition (3rd English edition)
Volker Herold (Author)
The
book is designed to make you fit for the management of critically ill
patients (especially of COVID-19 patients) in the intensive care unit.
It contains all the basics of critical care medicine (airway management,
ventilation principles and ventilation techniques, weaning,
tracheotomy, chest tube [thoracic drainage], analgosedation,
catecholamine therapy, hemodynamic monitoring, shock, nutrition,
resuscitation, sepsis, ECMO, acute kidney injury, renal replacement
therapy, acute coronary syndrome, cardiogenic shock, extracorporeal
circulatory support, cardiac arrhythmias, inflammatory heart diseases
[endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis], hypertensive crisis,
pulmonary embolism, acute aortic syndrom, ARDS, pulmonary hypertension,
acute right heart failure, obstructive lung diseases [status
asthmaticus, exacerbated COPD], interstitial lung diseases, bronchial
hemorrhage), gastrointestinal bleeding, acute pancreatitis,
gastrointestinal atony, complications of liver cirrhosis, acute liver
failure, acute mesenteric ischemia, pneumonia, multi-drug-resistant
organisms, skin and soft tissue infections, fungal infections (mycoses),
malaria, endocrinological emergencies, disorders of the electrolytes,
disorders of the acid-base balance, blood products, DIC,
hyerfibrinolysis, HIT, ITP, thrombotic microangiopathies, oncological
emergencies and also a separate detailed chapter on COVID-19
(SARS-CoV-2).
Description
Author: Dr. med. Volker Herold
- training as an internist and cardiologist
- additional designation emergency medicine
- senior emergency physician in the emergency medical service (specialist certificate)
- senior physician of Clinic for Internal Medicine, St. Joseph Hospital Regensburg / Germany
- head of the compact course in intensive care medicine
Basics of Intensive Care Medicine
- practical presentation for the clinician (“from practitioner for practitioner”)
- textbook and reference book
- no multi-author book (“made from one piece”)
- ideal for the preparation for the exam
- everything compact and clear for daily work in the intensive care unit
- didactically clearly structured
- The book conveys the latest and current status in Internal Intensive Care Medicine.
- Numerous illustrations, schemes and memos are intended to make reading and learning easier.
- Among all ICU books bestseller Lehmanns Media in Germany since 2017
