The Right Heart

• Author(s): Sean P. Gaine, Robert Naeije, Andrew John Peacock

• Categories: Medical

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2014-05-12
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• Publisher: Springer

The heart and lung are intricately linked. When the heart is affected by disease, the lungs will often show some related pathological or clinical conditions and vice versa. Pulmonary heart disease is by definition a condition when the lungs cause the heart to fail. The left ventricle in combination with the other structures in the “left heart” pumps blood throughout the body. The right ventricle (and structures of the “right heart”) pumps blood to the lungs where it is oxygenated and returned to the left heart for distribution. In normal circumstances, the right heart pumps blood into the lungs without any resistance. The lungs usually have minimal pressure and the right heart easily...

Marino's The ICU Book

• Author(s): Paul L. Marino

• Categories: Medical

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2024-10-28
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• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Dr. Paul L. Marino’s concise, engaging writing style is just one of many reasons that Marino’s The ICU Book is the best-selling reference in critical care. This highly regarded, full-color resource contains the essential information needed to care for patients in any ICU, regardless of the specialty designation of the unit. The newly revised Fifth Edition continues the focus on practical aspects of patient care and will appeal to anyone with an interest in the care of critically ill patients. The intended audience incudes medical students, interns and residents in medicine, surgery, and anesthesiology, critical care physicians and nurses, physician’s assistants, respiratory therapists, and paramedics.

Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2013

• Author(s): Jean-Louis Vincent

• Categories: Medical

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2013-04-08
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• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

The Yearbook compiles the most recent developments in experimental andclinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. Thechapters are written by well recognized experts in the field of intensive care and emergency medicine. It is addressed to everyone involved in internal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care and emergency medicine.​

Optimizing Hemodynamic Support in Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

• Author(s): Dane Nichols

• Categories: Medical

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2010-05-10
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• Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Guest Editor Dane Nichols, MD, has assembled a panel of experts focusing on Hemodynamic Support in Septic Shock. Topics include: Oxygen Delivery and Consumption: A Macro-Circulatory Perspective; Mean Arterial Pressure: Therapeutic Goals and Pharmacologic Support,Mechanisms; Detection and Potential Management of Microcirculatory Disturbances; Detection of Hypoxia at the Cellular Level; Type A & B Lactic Acidosis: Recognition, Kinetics, and Associated Prognosis; Venous blood gases: What Can They Tell Us About the State of the Circulation; Noninvasive Assessment of Cardiac Preload and Performance through CO2 Rebreathing/ETCO2 Monitoring.

Hemodynamic Physiology in Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiogenic Shock

• Author(s): Hoong Sern Lim

• Type: Book
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• Published: Unknown
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• Publisher: Springer Nature

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