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Addiction services in hospitals : guidelines

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D.F. Moffatt, chairman. --Ottawa, ON: Health and Welfare Canada , 1981-1987.

Call Number: WX 200 DC2 G95

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Call Number: WX 200 DC2 G95

Author: Moffatt, D.F.

Corporate Author: Health and Welfare Canada

Responsibility: D.F. Moffatt, chairman

Alternate Title: Adult psychiatric services provided by general hospitals; Burn unit; Cardiovascular services in hospitals; Child and adolescent psychiatric services provided by general hospitals; Child and adolescent services in general hospitals; Computed tomography; Day surgery unit; Diabetic day care unit; Diagnostic ultrasound in facilities in hospitals; Emergency units in hospitals; Geriatric units in hospitals, geriatric day hospitals; Hospital day medicine unit; Intensive care unit; Nuclear medicine units in hospitals; Organ and tissue donation services in hospitals; Palliative care services in hospitals; Patient hostel unit; Pulmonary function laboratories; Respiratory therapy service

Place of Publication: Ottawa, ON

Publisher: Health and Welfare Canada

Date of Publication: 1981-1987

Physical Description: 20 booklets

Series Title: Guidelines for establishing standards for special services in hospitals

ISBN: 0662134524; 0662113551; 0662148274; 0662148711; 0662114183; 0662123719; 0662127536; 0662124472; 0662127501; 0662143396; 0662127544; 066211356X; 0662137051; 0662114175; 0662145860; 0662152999; 0662127552; no ISBN given; 0662124944; 0662155343

Subjects (MeSH): Hospital Units - standards; Hospitals, General - standards; Substance Use Disorders; Behavior, Addictive; Mental Health Services - standards; Psychiatric Department, Hospital - standards; Burn Units - standards; Coronary Care Units - standards; Child Psychiatry; Adolescent Psychiatry; Adolescent Medicine - standards; Pediatrics - standards; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - standards; Diagnostic Services - standards; Day Care - standards; Ambulatory Surgery - standards; Diabetes Mellitus; Ultrasonography - standards; Emergency Medical Services - standards; Geriatrics; Outpatient Clinics, Hospital - standards; Intensive Care Units - standards; Nuclear Medicine Department, Hospital - standards; Organ Procurement - standards; Transplantation - standards; Palliative Treatment - standards; Ambulatory Care Facilities - standards; Ambulatory Care - standards; Lung Volume Measurements - standards; Laboratories - Standards; Respiratory Care Units - standards; Respiratory Therapy Department, Hospital - standards; Canada

Format: Book

Location: IWK Health Sciences Library

Copies: 1 SET (20 BOOKLETS)

Loan Period: 2 weeks

Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care : A Comprehensive Clinical Guide

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Jorge Hidalgo, Laila Woc-Colburn, editos. --Cham: Springer , c2020.

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Location: Online

This book provides a comprehensive overview of highly infectious diseases (HIDs) in the ICU. The text is designed to help critical care specialists and other healthcare practitioners prepare and plan for potential outbreaks of emerging or resurgent HIDs, lead a team in the ICU, perform emergency triage, and provide care for patients with a HID. The book also reviews some of the most prevalent highly infectious diseases, including influenza, SARS, plague, anthrax, and malaria. Written by experts…

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Other Authors: Hidalgo, Jorge; Woc-Colburn, Laila

Responsibility: Jorge Hidalgo, Laila Woc-Colburn, editos

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2020

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 276 p.) : 43 illus., 32 illus. in color

ISBN: 9783030338039; 9783030338022 (Print ed.); 9783030338046 (Print ed.); 9783030338053 (Print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Communicable Diseases - prevention & control; Communicable Diseases - transmission; Critical Care - methods; Infection Control - methods; Intensive Care Units - standards

Specialty: Communicable Disease Control; Critical Care; Infectious Disease Medicine

Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive overview of highly infectious diseases (HIDs) in the ICU. The text is designed to help critical care specialists and other healthcare practitioners prepare and plan for potential outbreaks of emerging or resurgent HIDs, lead a team in the ICU, perform emergency triage, and provide care for patients with a HID. The book also reviews some of the most prevalent highly infectious diseases, including influenza, SARS, plague, anthrax, and malaria. Written by experts in the field, Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide is a valuable resource for critical care and infectious disease specialists who treat patients afflicted with a highly infectious disease in the ICU.

Contents: How Infectious Diseases Have Influenced our Culture -- Evolution and Globalization of Antimicrobial Resistance -- Emergency Triage of Highly Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism -- Diagnostics: The Role of the Laboratory -- Influenza, Measles, SARS, MERS, and Smallpox -- Zoonotic Infections and Biowarfare Agents in Critical Care: Anthrax, Plague, and Tularemia -- Hemorrhagic Fevers -- Multidrug Resistance Bacterial Infection -- Central Nervous System Infection -- Intracranial Pressure Monitoring and Management in Bacterial Meningitis -- Rabies -- Tetanus -- Malaria -- Tuberculosis Multidrug Resistance (MDR-TB) -- Preparing the ICU for a Highly Infectious Disease -- Pandemic Declaration and Preparation.

Format: e-Book

Location: Online

Neurointensive Care : A Clinical Guide to Patient Safety

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Katja E. Wartenberg, Khalid Shukri, Tamer Abdelhak, editors. --Cham: Springer , c2015.

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Location: Online

This book provides guidance for physicians confronted with acute neurological crises in the context of patient safety centred practice standards. It highlights how the implementation of patient safety standards in the neurointensive care unit leads to better clinical outcomes and emphasizes the importance of utilizing appropriate resources, ensuring evidence-based practice is followed. Cost effectiveness, continuous performance improvement and the creation of a non-punitive culture are also dis…

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Other Authors: Wartenberg, Katja E; Shukri, Khalid; Abdelhak, Tamer

Responsibility: Katja E. Wartenberg, Khalid Shukri, Tamer Abdelhak, editors

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2015

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 342 p. : 31 illus., 14 illus. in color)

ISBN: 9783319172934; 9783319172927 (print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Central Nervous System Diseases; Critical Care - methods; Critical Care - standards; Intensive Care Units - standards; Patient Safety - standards

Abstract: This book provides guidance for physicians confronted with acute neurological crises in the context of patient safety centred practice standards. It highlights how the implementation of patient safety standards in the neurointensive care unit leads to better clinical outcomes and emphasizes the importance of utilizing appropriate resources, ensuring evidence-based practice is followed. Cost effectiveness, continuous performance improvement and the creation of a non-punitive culture are also discussed. Neurointensive Care: A Clinical Guide to Patient Safety is aimed at physicians around the world caring for critically ill neurological patients either in the emergency department or intensive care unit, and may also be valuable for nurses working in these settings. Neurointensivists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, general intensivists, emergency physicians, and trainees dealing with neurological catastrophes will find this book of interest.

Contents: Patient Safety Standards in the Neuro-ICU -- Airway Safety in the Neurocritical Care Unit -- Mechanical Ventilation in the Neuro-ICU -- Nutrition in Neuro-ICU -- Monitoring in the Neurocritical Care Unit -- Intracranial Pressure Monitoring -- Postoperative Care in Neurooncology -- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage -- Intracerebral Hemorrhage -- Patient Safety in Acute Ischemic Stroke -- Cerebral Venous Thrombosis -- Bacterial Meningitis -- Brain Abscess -- Seizures and Status Epilepticus in the Neurologic Intensive Care Unit -- Traumatic Brain Injury -- Patient Safety in Guillain Barre Syndrome and Acute Neuromuscular Disorders -- Acute Spinal Disorders -- Care for Complications after Catastrophic Brain Injury -- Neuroimaging in the Neuro-ICU -- Brain Death -- Ethics in the Neuro-ICU.