Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

A Clinical Guide to Rapid Assessment, Treatment Priorities, and Advanced Patient Monitoring

von Erica M. Cormack, Paige T. Merritt, Bradley J. Thornton

298 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A monitor can produce a number in seconds. The harder question is whether that number should change what happens next.Blood pressure falls. Oxygen requirements rise. Urine output drifts downward. Mental status changes subtly. A rhythm becomes less stable. Individually, these observations may look manageable; together, they may be the earliest indication that the patient's trajectory has changed.Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is a focused clinical guide to recognizing those changes and responding with greater structure.The book follows the logic of high-acuity care from the bedside outward. Rapid assessment establishes what is immediately threatening. Treatment priorities determine what cannot wait. Monitoring then becomes more than surveillance: it provides feedback about whether an intervention is working, whether physiology is worsening, and whether support needs to be intensified.Four practical questions guide the clinical approach throughout: - What has changed? Identify findings and trends that signal meaningful deterioration.- What matters first? Separate immediate threats from abnormalities that can be addressed later.- Is the intervention working? Use clinical response and monitored variables to reassess rather than simply continue the original plan.- When is escalation necessary? Recognize when the patient requires additional respiratory, circulatory, neurologic, or organ support.This emphasis makes the 297-page volume particularly useful for residents, advanced medical students, emergency and hospital-based clinicians, and practitioners developing confidence with unstable patients. Its purpose is not to replace comprehensive specialty texts, but to make the critical interval between observation and action easier to navigate.Because in acute care, collecting more data is rarely the final objective. Learn to recognize the trend, establish the priority, and know when the physiology is telling you that the plan must change.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175361644
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2026
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Independently published