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Book Detail
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Critical Care Medicine at a Glance
Leach, Richard
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Category: Critical Care and Intensive Care Affiliation: Guy's, King's, and St Thomas' School of Medicine, London Dimensions: 10.9 x 0.3 x 8.6 in
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Synopsis:
Senior clinical students and junior trainees are often overwhelmed when confronted with a critically ill patient. When these patients are cared for on the Intensive Care Unit, an army of extremely skilled and experienced practitioners is on-hand for guidance and teaching. However, more often than not, the critically ill are cared for on high dependency units or given one-to-one nursing care on a general ward. This offers a more isolated and pressurized clinical environment for an inexperienced junior. Although these topics are covered in the clinical years at medical school, there is no set course on critical care medicine and so a student's experience can be purely random, depending on the clinical attachments they have followed and the critical situations they have witnessed. Indeed, this is a relatively new specialty and we are set to see a greater emphasis on critical care in both undergraduate and postgraduate training. There is a need, therefore, in the market for a simple guide to some of the common critical situations a PRHO and clinical student will meet in their early years. This book will also appeal to SHOs and to junior grade nursing staff, new to the Intensive Care or High Dependency Unit.
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