The Organization of Critical Care: An Evidence-Based Approach to Improving Quality

Book Overview

I - Organizing Intensive Care

Ch.1: Organizational Change in Critical Care: The Next Magic Bullet?

Gordon D. Rubenfeld, Damon C. Scales

Ch.2: Origins of the Critically iIll: The Impetus for Critical Care Medicine

Matthew Rosengart, Michael R. Pinsky

Ch.3: Intensivist and Alternative Models of ICU Staffing

Hayley B. Gershengorn, Allan Garland

Ch.4: Health Professionals in Critical Care

Timothy G. Buchman

Ch.5: Computers in Intensive Care

Stephen E. Lapinsky

Ch.6: Integrating Subspecialty Expertise in the Intensive Care Unit

Jason Katz

II - Improving Intensive Care

Ch.7: Quality Improvement in the Intensive Care Unit

Christopher Dale, J. Randall Curtis

Ch.8: Facilitating Interactions between Healthcare Providers in the ICU

Andre Carlos Kajdacsy-Balla Amaral

Ch.9: Teamwork and Leadership in the Critical Care Unit

Tom W Reader, Brian H Cuthbertson

Ch. 10: Caring for ICU Providers

Ruth M. Kleinpell, Omar B. Lateef, Gourang P. Patel

III - Integrating Intensive Care

Ch. 11: Rationing without Contemplation: Why Attention to Patient Flow is Important and How to Make it Better

Michael Howell, Jennifer Stevens

Ch. 12: Rapid Response Systems

Ken Hillman, Jack Chen

Ch. 13: The Chronically Critically Ill

Shannon S. Carson, Kathleen Dalton

Ch. 14: Regionalization of Critical Care

Theodore J. Iwashyna, Jeremy M. Kahn

Ch. 15: International Perspectives on Critical Care

Hannah Wunsch

Ch. 16: Critical Care in Low-Resource Settings

Srinivas Murthy, Sadat A. Sayeed, Neil Adhikari

IV - Critical Care - Global and Future Perspectives

Ch. 17: Disaster Planning for the Intensive Care Unit: A Critical Framework

Daniel B. Jamieson, Lee Daugherty Biddison

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493951637
• ISBN13: 9781493951635
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Humana
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"