Essential guide to acute care - Nicola Cooper

The Essential Guide to Acute Care contains everything youreally need to know about acute care that you can't find in astandard textbook and have probably never been taught before.

Starting with the concept of patients at risk, the EssentialGuide to Acute Care explains how to recognise and manage thegeneric altered physiology that accompanies acute illness.

The principles of acute care are explained simply yetcomprehensively. Throughout the book 'mini-tutorials'expand on the latest thinking or controversies, and practical casehistories reinforce learning at the end of each chapter. Thechapters are designed to be read by individuals or used for grouptutorials in acute care.

Extensively rewritten and updated, this second edition isessential reading for anyone who looks after acutely ill adults,including:

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• Foundation Programme trainees and trainers
  
• Trainees in medicine, surgery, anaesthesia and emergencymedicine
  
• Final year medical students
  
• Nursing staff and allied professionals working in criticalcare