Case-based Review in Critical Care Medicine: A Comprehensive Preparatory Book for the Examinee
$49.00
Author: | Edited by AtulPrabhakar Kulkarni, Rahul Anil Pandit, Subhal Bhalchandra Dixit and Kapil Gangadhar Zirpe |
ISBN 13: | 9789388958554 |
Binding: | Softcover |
Language: | English |
Year: | 2019 |
Subject: | Medical Sciences |
About the Book
Contents: 1. How to Examine an ICU Patient in the Examination?. 2. Community-acquired Pneumonia. 3. Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation, Ventilator-associated Pneumonia and ICU-acquired Weakness. 4. Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. 5. Acute Severe Asthma. 6. Pulmonary Embolism. 7. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. 8. Dengue Hemorrhagic Shock. 9. Febrile Neutropenia. 10. Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Recipient. 11. Septic Shock. 12. Acute Myocardial Infarction and Cardiogenic Shock. 13. Perioperative Myocardial Infarction. 14. Postoperative Respiratory Failure. 15. Pregnancy-induced Hypertension and Cerebral Venous Thrombosis. 16. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. 17. Acute Ischemic Stroke. 18. Bacterial Meningitis with Status Epilepticus . 19. Traumatic Brain Injury. 20. Polytrauma. 21. Guillain-Barré Syndrome. 22. Hyponatremia. 23. Diabetic Ketoacidosis . 24. Unknown Poisoning. 25. Organophosphate Poisoning . 26. Acute Kidney Injury. 27. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding. 28. Acute Pancreatitis. 29. Acute Liver Failure. 30. Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest, Brain Death and Organ Donation. 31. End-of-Life Care in ICU. 32. Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). 33. Tips and Tricks for the Table Viva Voce. Index.
This book is an attempt to cover all the cases the examinee is likely to come across in most examinations, in the form of case vignettes. The book follows a question and answer format, as close to the real life as we can get, in the examination. The latest evidence is included in all answers throughout the book and the references quoted can be looked up for further information by examinees. As a bonus, there are 100 OSCEs (The Objective Structured Clinical Examination) for practice in the book, which will be extremely helpful to all.
Key Features:
• This book is meant for postgraduate students about to appear for exit examination in critical care medicine
• Presents a case-based question and answer format for the examinees
• Provides the evidence-based answers for all questions
• Lots of OSCEs (The Objective Structured Clinical Examinations) for the examinees to practice