Covid-19 Critical and Intensive Care Medicine Essentials

By Denise Battaglini

This book provides healthcare professionals in Critical Care setting an easy consultation guide to fight against COVID-19. The book is divided into sections: Fundamentals of COVID-19, Pneumological critical care, Neurological manifestations, Cardiovascular manifestations, Renal manifestations, Haemostasis and coagulation, Other multi-organs involvement, Principles of therapy.

Each section includes:

- brief pathophysiology of COVID-19 (ventilation, neurological, cardiovascular, etc.);

- principles of management (enriched with flowcharts and figures);

- principles of therapy;

- tips and key messages.

Readers can find the most updated advices on how to face the ongoing pandemic: from principles of conventional oxygen therapy, assisted and invasive mechanical ventilation in critically ill COVID-19 patients to the complications sometimes underestimated. Tables and flowcharts provided are based on current knowledge in COVID-19 to help the clinician managing COVID-19 patients by a multiple-organs prospective.

Written by international key opinion leaders of each field, the book represents a point of reference for all professionals involved in the management of COVID-19 pandemic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030949915
• ISBN13: 9783030949914
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.9"