Critical Care (Quick Look Series)

This presentation focuses on the basic science behind critical injury and treatment. Topics include fluid and electrolytes, critical care support, multi-systemic disorders and critical care diseases. Pathophysiologic mechanisms behind critical injury are combined with core clinical content so the user may develop effective clinical judgments and formulate guidelines for patient assessment, diagnosis and treatment planning. The presentation features a very clear, easy to understand acid/base balance discussion. This highly visual guide contains over 200 original conceptual drawings that facilitate understanding and 200 multiple choice questions comprehension. This title presents a full range of concepts and clinical guidelines that are essential to effective patient management.

Published by Teton New Media in the USA and distributed by Manson Publishing outside of North America.

This book is a fantastic resource for me as a technician working towards my VTS in ECC. Every page is a different disease process or function of the body and the adjoining page has diagrams and/or charts correlating to the chapter. I love how everything is broken down into one page of essential information.

My only problem with it is that as a technician, some of the context is a bit over my head. There are plenty of words, abbreviations and terminology that I have had to look up simply because I never learned them in tech school.

Other than that, this book is a priceless addition to my library of reference tools and study books. It will definitely be a book I continue to return to for a brief refresher on many disease processes!