Science and practice of pediatric critical care medicine [electronic resource] / Derek S. Wheeler, Hector R. Wong, and Thomas P. Shanley (eds.)
The care of critically ill and injured children needs to be safe, evidence-based, equitable, efficient, timely, and family-centered. "Science and Practice of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine" discusses these changes in the specialty in greater scope and detail, offering the reader fresh in...
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Table of Contents:
- Development of pediatric critical care medicine: how did we get here and why?
- Epidemiology of critical illness
- Ethics in the pediatric intensive care unit
- The patient's family in the pediatric intensive care unit
- Scoring systems in critical care
- Outcomes and quality definitions assessment and analysis
- Pediatric intensive care unit administration
- Nursing care in the pediatric intensive care unit
- The physician-scientist in the pediatric intensive care unit
- Resident and nurse education in the pediatric intensive care unit
- Evidence-based medicine in the pediatric intensive care unit
- Patient safety in the pediatric intensive care unit
- Pediatric critical care in developing countries
- The pediatric intensive care unit of the future: technological advances in pediatric critical care medicine
- Molecular biology in the pediatric intensive care unit
- Genetic polymorphisms in critical care and illness
- Signal transduction pathways in critical illness and injury
- Proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory mediators in critical illness
- Endogenous cytoprotective mechanisms
- Ischemia-reperfusion injury.