Blueprints Pocket Pediatric Icu

Blueprints Pocket Pediatric ICU is designed as a quick read for students on rotation and others who want to know more about the specialty. Pocket-sized and practical, the text covers the clinical topics a student would most likely encounter during an elective rotation and also provides the basic knowledge needed before USMLE Steps 2 and 3 in an organized, easy-to-read outline format. The book also features appendices on opportunities in pediatric critical care, a question and answer review, and suggested additional reading. Blueprints Pocket Pediatric ICU is perfect for medical students. Physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and related health professionals will also find the book valuable.

Provide the latest in superior quality care for critically ill children with the full-color, updated 4th Edition of Fuhrman and Zimmerman’s Pediatric Critical Care. In print, and now online, Drs. Bradley P. Fuhrman and Jerry J. Zimmerman use a comprehensive, organ-systems approach to help you manage a full range of disease entities. Get up-to-the-minute knowledge of topics such as acute lung injury, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, and more. Implement new clinical techniques and diagnostic tests, weigh the varying perspectives of six associate editors with expertise in the field, reference 1,000+ illustrations to aid diagnosis, and keep sharp with online access to board-style review questions. This definitive title will ensure that you consistently deliver the very best intensive care to your pediatric patients. Focus on the development, function, and treatment of a wide range of disease entities with the text’s clear, logical, organ-system approach. Keep all members of the pediatric ICU team up to date with coverage of topics particularly relevant to their responsibilities. Keep current with the latest developments in palliative care, mass casualty/epidemic disease, acute respiratory failure, non-invasive ventilation, neurocritical care, neuroimaging, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, acute lung injury, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, and much more. Quickly find the information you need with sections newly reorganized for easier access. Gain the perspectives of six expert associate editors on all the new developments in the field. Understand complex concepts quickly and conclusively with a brand new full-color format and more than 1,000 illustrations. Search the full text, download the image library, and access online board review questions targeting every relevant topic, all at www.expertconsult.com.

One of the best selling and most highly regarded volumes in the Blueprints series, Blueprints Pediatrics provides students with a concise review of what they need to know in their pediatrics rotation or the Boards. Each chapter is brief and includes pedagogical features such as bolded key words, tables, figures, and key points. A question and answer section at the end of the book presents 100 board-format questions with complete rationales. This edition includes full-color dermatology and infectious disease photographs and multicolored flow diagrams of congenital heart defects. A companion Website includes a question bank and fully searchable text.

Blueprints Pocket Anesthesiology is designed as a quick read for students on rotation and others who want to know more about the specialty. Pocket-sized and practical, this book covers the high-yield, critical information students need to know during a rotation and also provides the basic knowledge needed before USMLE Steps 2 and 3. The book also features special appendices on career and residency opportunities, commonly used formulas, commonly performed procedures, and a self-test question and answer section. Blueprints Pocket Anesthesiology is perfect for medical students. Physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and related health professionals will also find the book valuable.

Still the #1 resource for today’s pediatric ICU teams, Pediatric Critical Care, 5th Edition covers the entire field, from basic science to cutting-edge clinical applications. Drs. Bradley P. Fuhrman and Jerry J. Zimmerman, accompanied by an expert team of editors and contributors from around the world, bring you today’s best information on the current and future landscape of pediatric critical care so you can consistently deliver optimum care to your young patients. Boasts highly readable, concise chapters with hundreds of useful photos, diagrams, algorithms, and clinical pearls. Clear, logical, organ-system approach allows you to focus on the development, function, and treatment of a wide range of disease entities. Includes new content on the expanding use of ultrasound at the bedside and the increase in nursing responsibilities in the PICU. Eighteen new chapters cover topics such as delirium, metabolism, endocrinology, nutrition, nursing, and much more. Features expanded and updated information on critical communication, professionalism, long-term outcomes, palliative care, ultrasonography, PCCM in resource-limited settings, ventilator-induced lung injury, non-invasive ventilation, updated CNS pathophysiology, the ‘Erythron’, and immunity and infection.

An innovative new survival guide for the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) The PICU Handbook is a unique, pocket-sized compilation of the data necessary for residents and fellows to navigate the modern Level 1 and Level 2 pediatric intensive care unit. Enhanced by numerous tables, formulas, algorithms, guidelines, checklists, rapid-sequence medication formularies, troubleshooting guides, and clinical pearls, this is a true must read for all junior clinicians and pediatric critical care nurses. Readers will find wide-ranging coverage of every critical issue they will encounter in the PICU, including airway clearance, respiratory mechanics and respiratory failure, endotracheal intubation, shock, brain death evaluation, and much more. The PICU Handbook is edited by the Associate Medical Director of Children’s Memorial Hospital/Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and features contributions from current and former pediatric residents and pediatric critical care fellows.

Designed as a quick read for students on a pediatrics rotation and others who want to know more about the specialty, Blueprints Infectious Diseases covers the essentials that every student needs to know in a pocket-sized, practical reference. The book focuses on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of the most common conditions students are likely to encounter and the essential content students need to know during a rotation. Twenty-five multiple-choice and matching review questions are included, plus appendices on career and residency opportunities, commonly prescribed medications, and a list of evidence-based resources.

Detailed answer explanations, 200 brand new questions, and a handy pocket size make the 2nd edition of Blueprints Q&A Step 2 Obstetrics & Gynecology critical to your success on the USMLE. Thoroughly reviewed by students who recently passed the boards, this book is also perfect for use during clerkships, board, shelf, or end-of-rotation exam review. Review individual content areas as needed and be ready for Step 2 with the Blueprints Q&A series! A superior resource for medical students, Blueprints Q&A Step 2 Obstetrics & Gynecology is also a valuable resource for IMGs, PAs and NPs studying for licensure exams.