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Critical Care book from C.H.I.P.S.

Avoiding Common ICU Errors
edited by Lisa Marcucci

Avoiding Common ICU Errors succinctly describes 318 errors commonly made by attendings, residents, interns, nurses, and nurse-anesthetists in the intensive care unit, and gives practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding these errors.

This pocket book can easily be read immediately before the start of a rotation or used for quick reference on call.

Each error is described in a short, clinically relevant vignette, followed by a list of things that should always or never be done in that context and tips on how to avoid or ameliorate problems. Coverage includes all areas of ICU practice except the pediatric intensive care unit.

Avoiding Common ICU Errors covers all areas of ICU practice:

  • medications
  • devices, lines, tubes, catheters, drains, procedures
  • ventilators, airway, intubation, extubation
  • infectious disease
  • shock, fluids, electrolytes
  • neurological/neurosurgical intensive care
  • laboratory tests
  • nutrition
  • renal disease
  • blood
  • imaging and tests
  • pregnancy
  • burns

Contents

Includes 318 common errors in the following categories:

  • Medications
  • Infectious Disease
  • Neuro
  • Nutrition
  • Renal
  • Pregnancy
  • Burns
  • Miscellaneous

Index

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Avoiding Common ICU Errors
edited by Lisa Marcucci
2007 • 846 pages • $58.95 + shipping
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