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Practical and safe approach to sedation
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a comprehensive guide to delivering analgesia and sedation to critically ill patients for professionals and caregivers being involved in the management of these patients. It discusses and explains in detail the advantages and limitations of each drug and device using clear flowcharts, diagrams and tables.
Reviews
“This focused monograph presents the physiology, pharmacology and clinical implications of sedating agents in the critical care unit. The purpose is to present strategies for the use and monitoring of sedation and the avoidance of complications, particularly delirium. Senior trainees and staff providers in multidisciplinary critical care units are an appropriate audience for this work … .” (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, April, 2018)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
A.Raffaele De Gaudio is Full Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at University of Florence, Director of post-graduated School of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care. He is working at Careggi University Hospital in Florence as Director of Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care. Past president of Italian Society of Intensive Care (SITI) and Vice-President of Italian Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care. His research area cover different fields regarding: Sedation in ICU, Infection and Sepsis in critically ill patient, Critical Care Nephrology, Perioperative Medicine, Acute Pain and Palliative Medicine in ICU.
Dr. Romagnoli is an anesthesiologist and intensivist at the Department of Oncology - Section of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Careggi University Hospital in Florence. His main interests are anesthesia and intensive care in adult cardiac surgery, vascular surgery and thoracic surgery; he is an expert in hemodynamic monitoring and management (from pulmonary artery catheters to minimally invasive tools and echocardiography), as well as cardiogenic and hypovolemic distributive shock states. He is the author of a number of papers published in international, peer-reviewed, indexed journals including Anesthesia & Analgesia, Critical Care, the Journal of Critical Care, the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Anesthesia, the International Journal of Cardiology, Pediatric Anaesthesia, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Care Sedation
Editors: Angelo Raffaele De Gaudio, Stefano Romagnoli
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59312-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59311-1Published: 02 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86595-9Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59312-8Published: 23 January 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 263
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Anesthesiology, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine