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9780192625724

Fighting for Life An Introduction to the Intensive Care Unit

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  • ISBN13:

    9780192625724

  • ISBN10:

    0192625721

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-06-20
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This is an invaluable guide for people who suddenly find a member of their family or a friend in an Intensive Care Unit. Answering all the likely questions they may have in an easily readable way, it explains the whole experience of the ICU: the equipment, the roles of the different staff,the drugs that are often used, and how patients are monitored, helped to breathe and feed, and given the best medical care.

Author Biography

Kieron Saunders is Deputy News Editor for the Daily Star newspaper.

Table of Contents

History
Types of intensive care unit
People
Shock
Beathing difficulties
Heart diease
Kidney failure
Liver and gut disease
Accidents
Neurological diseases
Poisoning
Multi-organ failure
Equipment
Investigations
Drugs
Feeding
Feelings
Dying
Organ donation
Research
Common abbreviations
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