Prolonged critical illness
Subtitle: management of long-term acute care
By: Alexander C. White and Barry L. Fanburg, guest editors
Series: Clinics in chest medicine -- v. 22, no. 1; Clinics in chest medicine -- v. 22, no. 1.
Publisher: W.B. Saunders Co.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Chronic Disease; Critical Illness; Long-Term Care; Critical Care
Notes: "March 2001."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The evolution of care for the chronically critically ill patient / Lawrence S. Hotes and Edward Kalman; title: Weaning from prolonged mechanical ventilation / Michael L. Nevins and Scott K. Epstein; title: Noninvasive mechanical ventilation for post acute care / Nicholas Hill; title: Tracheotomy management in the chronically ventilated patient / John E. Heffner and Dean Hess; title: Respiratory infection in the chronically critically ill patient: ventilator-associated pneumonia and tracheobronchitis / Qanta A.A. Ahmed and Michael S. Niederman; title: Antimicrobial resistance in the chronically critically ill patient / Debra D. Poutsiaka; title: Management of venous thromboembolic disease in the chronically critically ill patient / Maged A. Tanios, Amy R. Simon, and Paul M. Hassoun; title: The evaluation and management of hypoxemia in the chronic critically ill patient / Alexander C. White; title: Gastrointestinal problems in the chroniclaly critically ill patient / Sunil G. Sheth and J. Thomas LaMont; title: Nutrition in chronic critical illness / Susan K. Pingleton; title: Acute renal failure and dialysis in the chronically critically ill patient / Ali Al-Khafaji and Howard L. Corwin; title: Cardiologic problems in the post acute ventilated patient / Mary Seidlitz, George Madera, and John J. Smith; title: Endocrine problems in the chronically critically ill patient / Falguni R. Vasa and Mark E. Molitch; title: Ethical issues in the chronically critically ill patient / Jennifer M. Papa-Kanaan and Leonard Sicilian.