Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Handbook of Critical Care, Revised Edition. | Available online http content 9 6 E27 Book report Handbook of Critical Care Revised Edition Duncan Wyncoll Consultant Intensivist Guy s St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust London UK handbook Corresponding author Duncan Wyncoll Published online 26 October 2005 Critical Care 2005 9 E27 DOI cc3889 This article is online at http content 9 6 E27 2005 BioMed Central Ltd Hall JB Murphy P Handbook of Critical Care revised edition. London UK Science Press 2003. 278 pp. Paperback. ISBN 1858739861 Critical Care revised edition JB Hall p Murphy SI Written primarily for medical trainees or nurses to use during their first exposure to critical care medicine this 278-page spiral bound book is a pocket-sized basic intensive care manual. The handbook is divided into 15 chapters eight substantial ones covering the major organ systems as well as infection nutrition physical injury and toxicology and brief chapters on scoring systems and obstetrics. Many of the sections are loaded with very clear pictures comparative tables diagrams and lists and provide more than adequate information for juniors training in intensive care medicine. The definitions aetiology clinical features and differential diagnoses are well covered. Excellent use is made of bullet points and numbering which vastly increases the clarity of presentation compared with many other books that are pitched at a similar audience. The chapters are written in a didactic fashion and there is very little discussion as to why a particular therapy or course of treatment is recommended. Consequently it is no surprise that there are no references in the book to any of the major papers that form the critical care evidence base. No reference is made to the various national society guidelines on for example the management of trauma head injury or nosocomial infection. There is one reference to the Advanced Cardiac Life Support guidelines from the American Heart Association. The .
