Emergency & Critical Care Pocket Guide
The Emergency & Critical Care Pocket Guide has been an essential resource for physicians, paramedics, and nurses for over a decade. The Pocket Guide consolidates the critical information found in desk references into a convenient 3″x5″ pocket-size format that is handy enough to take with you anywhere.
Emergency & Critical Care Pocket Guide Features
- Revised and updated content to reflect the most current guideline and medication dosage recommendations
- New sections on troubleshooting ICDs, Mechanical Circulatory Support, resuscitation team dynamics, and vascular access devices
- Enhanced information on pacemakers
- New content on I-gel supraglottic airway
- Enhanced information on noninvasive ventilation
- New details on neuromonitoring
- Updated content on pediatric medications to reflect best practice recommendations
- Completely revised Emergency Medications chapter to include dozens of new medications and pediatric dosing
- New content on Ebola, monkeypox, and COVID-19
- Completely revised trauma triage algorithm to reflect 2022 recommendations
- Completely revised Poisoning chapter, adding GHB, beta-blocker overdose, calcium channel blocker overdose, Jimson weed, khat, LSD, and mushrooms
- Updated Lab Values chapter to include procalcitonin, C-reactive protein, high-sensitivity troponin, BNP, and D-dimer values and interpretation
- Completely revised Prescription Drugs chapter to reflect hundreds of brand-name and generic drugs
- ISBN: 9781284290325
