Historical aspects of critical illness and critical care medicine
By: guest editors Anand Kumar, Joseph E. Parrillo
Series: Critical care clinics -- vol. 25, no. 1; Critical care clinics -- vol. 25, no. 1.
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781437704631
Subjects: Critical Care; Critical care medicine; History
Notes: "January 2009"

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The history and evolution of circulatory shock / Rizwan A. Manji, Kenneth E. Wood, and Anand Kumar; title: Battlefield trauma, traumatic shock and consequences: war-related advances in critical care / Carrie E. Allison and Donald D. Trunkey; title: Preparedness lessons from modern disasters and wars / Saqib I. Dara and J. Christopher Farmer; title: Plagues in the ICU: a brief history of community-acquired epidemic and endemic transmissible infections leading to intensive care admission / R. Bruce Light; title: Sepsis and septic shock: a history / Duane J. Funk, Joseph E. Parillo, and Anand Kumar; title: Cardiogenic shock: a historical perspective / Fredric Ginsberg and Joseph E. Parillo; title: A history of pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis / Kenneth E. Wood; title: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: from the beginning to the present day / Giuseppe Ristagno, Wanchun Tang, and Max Harry Weil; title: Historical aspects of critical care and the nervous system / Thomas P. Bleck; title: History of solid organ transplantation and organ donation / Peter K. Linden; title: History of Technology in the intensive care unit / Nitin Puri, Vinod Puri, and R.P. Dellinger; title: Historical perspectives in critical care medicine: blood transfusion, intravenous fluids, inotropes/vasopressors, and antibiotics / Ryan Zarychanski, Robert E. Ariano, Bojan Paunovic, and Dean D. Bell; title: A history of ethics and law in the intensive care unit / John M. Luce and Douglas B. White; title: Evolution of the intensive care unit as a clinical center and critical care medicine as a discipline / Ake Grenvik and Michael R. Pinksy.