Brand: LWW Marino's the ICU Book: Print + eBook with Updates

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This book is so informative and it’s an easy read. Lots of diagrams to help you understand the information! Only thing that would make this book better would be some practice quizzes at the end of each chapter to help you retain the knowledge!!

Ben fatto, chiaro e comprensibile in lingua originale. Ottimo per ripassare alcuni aspetti teorici di tanto in tanto a fronte della pratica clinica.

私は学生時代は生理学が苦手で国家試験の勉強も"Aという疾患にはBという治療薬を使う"という覚え方でした。実際にベッドサイドで働くようになると患者毎に基礎疾患などのベースの状態が異なりAだからBという安易な考え方では対応できない局面も多々あり、困惑しました。このテキストでは生理学から丁寧な解説がついており(しかも取っつきやすい)、各疾患や病態へのアプローチが明確になります。例えば大動脈解離の項では大動脈解離の診療ガイドラインでは"降圧療法の第一選択はβ遮断薬である"としか記載されていませんこの本では、血管拡張作用を持つ降圧薬では後負荷が下がることにより心拍出量が増加し、大動脈内の流量が増加することによりさらに解離が進む恐れがある。そのためβ遮断薬により心拍出量を抑えることが大事であるとあります単なるハウツー本ではなくこういった生理学に基づいたテキストで勉強することで複雑な病態を紐解くことができ患者のアウトカムも良くなると思います。

Residents and students can be easily scared in the ICU. Your patients are sick, and its up to you to figure out how to manage them. They usually are unstable (that's why they're in the ICU!!!) and tend to have very complex issues. Nowadays, ICU isn't very well taught in medical school and doing an ICU rotation is optional in your 3rd/4th years. Therefore a good text is important in case you need reference to figuring out what is going on. To be honest, I only read maybe 3-4 chapters to this point (you don't have much time when you're taking care of ICU patients) but I really enjoyed the simple way of how everything is written in this book. I've read other critical care texts where it cites a lot of good articles and theories behind things but I think the ICU book puts it in a way that's not overwhelming. That being said, the chapters I've read has left me wanting more. This is a great starter reference book and it does cite all the articles/research that it quotes from so that when you want to do more research on your own, it will be easy for you to find.I definitely enjoy the tables and graphs in this book. I never had the older versions of the book so I can't comment what upgrades have been made in this latest edition but I can definitely say that the text is not overwhelming for a medical student (especially 4th years who have had some internal medicine). I will give this book 5 stars because everyone can read this without getting too confused or overwhelmed but if you are a critical care specialist, this book only grazes the top of specific issues. You will definitely need to hit up Uptodate or scan through the new NEJM critical care series. The paper quality is also good (I hate the new medical textbooks which they print on that cheap recycled paper).In summary: Very good book for the fundamentals of ICU but don't expect immense detail.

El autor explica los conceptos de manera sencilla y con una visión muy práctica para todos los que trabajan con pacientes agudos, dentro o fuera de la UCI, cubre contenidos que bien valen para UCI, cardiología, medicina interna y urgencias generales. Aparte de esto trae un código que permite descargar la edición completa con actualizaciones a la aplicación Inkling de IOS/Android