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Published in: Critical Care 4/2004

01-08-2004 | Book report

Higgins TL, Steingrub JS, Kacmarek RM, Stoller JK (editors): Cardiopulmonary Critical Care.

Oxford, UK: BIOS Scientific; 2002. ISBN 1-85996-237-8

Author: Marilyn T Haupt

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 4/2004

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Excerpt

Cardiopulmonary Critical Care is a conveniently small textbook that discusses clinically relevant physiology and treatment of cardiac and pulmonary derangements in intensve care unit patients. I appreciate the compact size of this textbook because my stamina for lifting heavy, more comprehensive textbooks is yielding to the electronic medium. By restricting discussions to cardiac and pulmonary areas, I found that this compact textbook comprehensively covered topics such as advanced ventilator modes and techniques, the variety of new drugs available to treat cardiac and hypertensive disorders, and the unique problems encountered in cardiac and thoracic surgical and trauma patients. …
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Title
Higgins TL, Steingrub JS, Kacmarek RM, Stoller JK (editors): Cardiopulmonary Critical Care.
Oxford, UK: BIOS Scientific; 2002. ISBN 1-85996-237-8
Author
Marilyn T Haupt
Publication date
01-08-2004
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 4/2004
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc2819

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