Editors:
Offers a pragmatic guide, focusing on daily practice and bedside medicine
Straightforward, easy to implement, and results-oriented
Provides readers with a profound understanding of intensive care, with a specific focus on organ systems, their interactions and the effect of life support technologies
Shows how to manage complex problems in a pragmatic, concrete and experience-based way.
Provides valid tools not only for countries with established specialized medical care and management but also for threshold countries which need clear instructions tailored to specific clinical situations
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Considerations on Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Medicine
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Management of Specific Pediatric Cardiac Problems
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About this book
Reviews
“The problem-oriented approach of this book is what a busy clinician is looking for. … If you are a busy clinician taking care of children or adults with congenital heart disease and if you have an open mind and are willing to ‘think beyond,’ … this book is for you.” (Elena Ashikhmina, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol. 129 (2), August, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
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Center for Paediatrics and Youth Health Singen, Singen, Germany
Dietrich Klauwer
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Universitätsklinikum Gießen und Marburg, Paediatric Cardiac ICU and Heart Transplantation Program, Gießen, Germany
Christoph Neuhaeuser, Josef Thul
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Global Medical Leader in Medical Affairs, Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Allschwil, Switzerland
Rainer Zimmermann
About the editors
Christoph Neuhaeuser worked as an anesthesiologist for nine years before becoming a pediatrician, neonatologist and pediatric intensivist. He was trained at the PICU at Giessen University Children’s Hospital. He is currently working as a consultant for pediatric intensive care in Giessen.
Josef Thul has been trained in neonatology, pediatric intensive care and pediatric cardiology. For more than a decade, he has been the head of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at the Children’s Heart Center at Giessen University Hospital, where he is also the responsible cardiologist for the pediatric heart transplant program.
Rainer Zimmermann was trained as a pediatrician and pediatric cardiologist in Mönchengladbach, the University Hospitals of London, Oxford and Würzburg, and the University of Giessen’s Pediatric Heart Center. He joined Actelion Pharmaceuticals in 2008 as a specialist for pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Practical Handbook on Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Therapy
Editors: Dietrich Klauwer, Christoph Neuhaeuser, Josef Thul, Rainer Zimmermann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92441-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92440-3Published: 20 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92441-0Published: 11 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 560
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Cardiology, Pediatrics, Anesthesiology