An invaluable resource for practising ED clinicians, leaders, administrators, educators, and system change leaders.Īuthor: Robert P., MD, FAAP Olympia Format: Paperback Release Date: įor more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series (R) has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. The book features proven ideas for creating a geriatric ED such as specific staff training, modifying job roles, implementing new care processes, and adapting physical spaces.

Experience- and evidence-based elements combine to guide best practices for older patient flow, staff and patient satisfaction, and improving patient health outcomes. It assists ED teams to implement changes tailored to their unique environments, providing guidance across all settings regardless of size, location or resources. This practical and accessible book provides essential guidance on assessing the ED care of older patients - and improving it. Visits from older people are predicted to rise for the next 20 years.

Globally, EDs face new challenges as the world's population ages. This one-of-a-kind guide covers: * Working the frontlines * Antimicrobials versus Immunomodulators * Respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation * Repurposing therapies for COVID-19 * Endocrinologic and cardiovascular Issues * Special Populations: pediatrics and immunocompromised patients * SARS, MERS, COVID-19, Ebola, Anthrax, Influenza * Traumatic brain and lung injury * Palliative care and bioethics * Psychiatric issues * Intensive care units under austere conditions * Terrorism (biological and chemical)Īuthor: John (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Schumacher, Don (University of Toronto) Melady Format: Paperback Release Date: You'll learn how hospitals are transformed to accommodate surges in patients, while dealing with shortages in staffing, medications, mechanical ventilators, and personal protective equipment and get an invaluable look at how real-time critical decision were made during the height of the pandemic. Organized into three sections, the text covers critical care changes associated with crises, crises in pandemics, trauma, and crises in war and natural disasters. The book features contributors from across the world who dealt first-hand with COVID-19, making this a truly global retrospective on new global pandemics. The first detailed retrospective of the spread and management of COVID-19-and a blueprint for better management of the next major healthcare crisis From a team of global experts, Understanding Crisis in Critical Care describes the global spread of COVID-19 and analyzes how it was managed compared to other deadly epidemics, such as SARS and MERS.

Author: Ronaldo Collo Go Format: Paperback Release Date:

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