Current Concepts in Adult Critical Care offers cutting-edge information on the latest issues facing ICU practitioners. It is updated annually and is used as a companion to the Current Concepts course held each year at the Critical Care Congress. Each chapter focuses on clinical challenges immediately pertinent to the critical care practitioner. Current Concepts in Adult Critical Care includes a range of study tools such as learning objectives, key terms, and a list of current references in bibliographic form. 2011 highlights include: -Critical care without the unit -Therapeutic hypothermia -Severe congestive heart failure -ICU toxicology -Immunosuppression and critical illness

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DESCRIPTION This one-of-a-kind publication highlights the use of simulation in graduate medical education. Chapters cover a wide variety of topics, including the history and educational theories behind using simulation in medical education, as well as the issues faced when starting a simulation center. Key topics include: the role simulation plays in patient safety, issues raised in starting a simulation center, human simulation and crisis team training, team-oriented medical simulation, technological resources in medical simulation, and many others. PRODUCT CODE: SIMCCE

Written by leaders in the field, Designing, Implementing, and Enhancing a Rapid Response System, contains the tools needed to plan, develop, enhance, and customize a rapid response system (RRS) in your hospital. This book includes a turnkey education and implementation program designed for a variety of clinical settings and will assist in defining your RRS depending on your hospital's personnel, patient population, and other factors. Also included is a CD that contains customizable policies, procedures, protocols, algorithms, order sets, lanyard and pocket cards, posters, educational programs and examinations, promotional materials, and data collection forms. RRS will empower your staff and improve patient outcomes. Topics include key elements of an RRS, overcoming barriers, policy and procedures, education and case studies, and data collection and quality assurance. RRT1

A must-have text for professional coders, hospital administrators, physicians, and advanced practice nurses, Coding and Billing for Critical Care, Fourth Edition, explains the complexities of critical care coding and billing and provides assistance in optimizing understanding of the coding and billing procedures in a critical care setting. This fourth edition encompasses the 2010 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) changes, with updates including revised consultation material and the addition of coding information for bedside ultrasound.

The Second Edition of the Compensation of Critical Care Professionals is an invaluable resource for critical care providers needing to benchmark compensation packages. In this publication, the Society of Critical Care Medicine presents results and comparison data from a recent survey of critical care professionals.