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Vital signs : stories from intensive care /
This gripping collection of stories about the experiences of intensive care patients, their families and carers, is about ordinary people facing terrible tragedies and the ways they cope with them. The author, an experienced intensive care clinician, takes the reader on a journey inside an intensive...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sydney, Australia :
New South,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; 1 The angel of dying; 2 A colonial at Barts; 3 Ageing doctors; 4 The elephants' graveyard; 5 The myth of CPR; 6 An interesting case of blue feet; 7 And the blood goesround and round; 8 Orchestrating deaths; 9 Father of the year; 10 When things go wrong; 11 The wonderful gut; 12 The labels on the pack; 13 The last photograph; 14 Michelle and thelife-support machine; 15 Some ethical issues; 16 When the muscles won't work; 17 Pathos; 18 Euphemisms; 19 Spectacular successes; 20 Fatima and John:the difficulty in dying; 21 The worst injury of all; 22 Patient-centred care.