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: The Little ICU Book of Facts and Formulas. | Available online http content 13 3 304 Book report The Little ICU Book of Facts and Formulas Som Sarkar1 and Julian Bion2 Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Birmingham B15 2TH UK 2Professor of Intensive Care Medicine University Department Anaesthesia and ICM N5 Queen Elizabeth Hospital Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TH UK Corresponding author Julian Bion Published 19 May 2009 Critical Care 2009 13 304 doi cc7764 This article is online at http content 13 3 304 2009 BioMed Central Ltd Paul L Marino The Little ICU Book of Facts and Formulas. Philadelphia Lippincott Williams and Wilkins 2009 800pp. ISBN 978-0-7817-7823-7 Books now compete with web-based electronic resources and the challenge for authors and publishers is how to provide accurate and timely information with sufficient depth and breadth to be useful in the workplace. A book of this type therefore has to compromise between size and detail demonstrate balance in selection of material and appeal to a globalised world. In many respects Paul Marino succeeds in this task. The book is a condensed version of The ICU Book by the same author. Intended as a compact bedside reference it is presented as 15 chapters each with up to 5 sub-sections. Chapters cover diverse subjects with an appendix of conversion tables normal values and formulae. Algorithms are well referenced using current evidence. However these strengths are offset by some notable omissions and imbalances. The haemodynamic monitoring section is exclusively based on the pulmonary artery flotation catheter PAFC disregarding other forms of monitoring - for example oesophageal Doppler LiDCO or PiCCO . No reference is made to evidence regarding lack of clinical utility of the PAFC. The section on haemodynamic drugs lacks breadth omitting discussion of epinephrine vasopressin mentioned briefly in the septic shock chapter .
