Historical aspects of critical illness and critical care medicine / guest editors Anand Kumar, Joseph E. Parrillo.

Date:
2009
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Publication/Creation

Philadelphia, Pa. : Saunders, 2009.

Physical description

xiv, 260 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Notes

"January 2009"

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The history and evolution of circulatory shock / Rizwan A. Manji, Kenneth E. Wood, and Anand Kumar -- Battlefield trauma, traumatic shock and consequences: war-related advances in critical care / Carrie E. Allison and Donald D. Trunkey -- Preparedness lessons from modern disasters and wars / Saqib I. Dara and J. Christopher Farmer -- Plagues in the ICU: a brief history of community-acquired epidemic and endemic transmissible infections leading to intensive care admission / R. Bruce Light -- Sepsis and septic shock: a history / Duane J. Funk, Joseph E. Parillo, and Anand Kumar -- Cardiogenic shock: a historical perspective / Fredric Ginsberg and Joseph E. Parillo -- A history of pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis / Kenneth E. Wood -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: from the beginning to the present day / Giuseppe Ristagno, Wanchun Tang, and Max Harry Weil -- Historical aspects of critical care and the nervous system / Thomas P. Bleck -- History of solid organ transplantation and organ donation / Peter K. Linden -- History of Technology in the intensive care unit / Nitin Puri, Vinod Puri, and R.P. Dellinger -- Historical perspectives in critical care medicine: blood transfusion, intravenous fluids, inotropes/vasopressors, and antibiotics / Ryan Zarychanski, Robert E. Ariano, Bojan Paunovic, and Dean D. Bell -- A history of ethics and law in the intensive care unit / John M. Luce and Douglas B. White -- Evolution of the intensive care unit as a clinical center and critical care medicine as a discipline / Ake Grenvik and Michael R. Pinksy.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9781437704631
  • 1437704638