Overview
- Evidence-based and comprehensive survey of the organization and function of intensive care units
- Suggests a range of improvements to consider in the physical layout and design of intensive care units
- Includes techniques for integrating subspecialists’ knowledge for providing care to specific patient groups in the ICU
- Discusses ethical issues related to providing critical care in regions with scarce resources
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Respiratory Medicine (RM)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Organizing Intensive Care
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Integrating Intensive Care
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Critical Care: Global and Future Perspectives
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“It presents the multidisciplinary development of the critical care model and a perspective on next steps in the evolution of critical care. Providers at any level are an appropriate audience for this work written by international experts from Western Europe and North America. … This book is important for anyone seeking to understand the process and personnel important to the intensive care unit.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Book Reviews, September, 2014)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Organization of Critical Care
Book Subtitle: An Evidence-Based Approach to Improving Quality
Editors: Damon C. Scales, Gordon D. Rubenfeld
Series Title: Respiratory Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0811-0
Publisher: Humana New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0810-3Published: 19 June 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5163-5Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-0811-0Published: 18 June 2014
Series ISSN: 2197-7372
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7380
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 284
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour