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Oxford Handbook of Critical Care for PDA

Mervyn Singer and Andrew R. Webb

Price: £25.49+VAT (CD-ROM (Windows))
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-920586-8
Publication date: 24 August 2006
619 pages, 1 halftone, numerous tables & line illus.,
Series: Oxford Handbooks Series
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  • 'The Oxford Handbook of Critical Care for PDAs provides rapid access to crucial information on most aspects of management of critically ill patients...Information is easily accessed at the bedside, at any time of the day...either directly from the index and table of contents, or through easy links. These links are...of course the essential gain from the PDA format...key papers are referenced in some chapters to help readers to find additional information if needed. ' - Critical Care Vol 11, no 303

Description
  • The Oxford Handbook of Critical Care is now available from OUP on PDA for the first time
  • Fast access to the essential clinical information via the contents list, index or full-text search
  • Facilities for annotating and bookmarking text can be used like the blank pages in the book
The Oxford Handbook of Critical Care for PDAs enables enhanced, multi-layered access to the entire text, illustrations and tables. Fast access is available via the table of contents, index and full-text search, and there is a facility for book-marking and annotating the text. It is suitable for most Palm, Windows CE and Pocket PC devices.

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Care provides a perfect reference source for consultants, junior doctors, nurses and paramedical staff describing best practice in a succinct, concise, clinically orientated way. It covers therapeutic and monitoring devices, drugs and fluids, specific organ system disorders and complications, and general management philosophies and material on areas such as adjusting the ventilator; managing ARDS; haemodynamic monitoring stroke; the control, diagnosis and treatment of infection; sepsis and septic shock, and withdrawal and withholding treatment. Patient centred and practical with up-to-date key references, it continues to be the first port of call for anyone caring for critically ill patients.

System Requirements:

Palm OS 3.5 or higher: 4.1 MB
Windows Mobile 5/Pocket PC 2002/2003/ Windows Mobile 2003: 3.8MB

Macintosh OS 7-OS X with 8 MB of free hard disk space
PC running Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP with 24 MB of free hard disk space

Technical information:
To use this product you need: PC Pocket PC Phone Edition device running Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003, Windows CE/PocketPC or Palm OS. It comes as a CD which is uploaded to a PDA via a PC. As part of the upload process, users will need to visit the website of our development partner Skyscape to access the password which will enable use of the product. Full instructions are provided.

Readership: Junior doctors, specialist nurses, and other paramedical staff working in intensive care and emergency medicine. This book will also be of interest to senior medical students.

Authors, editors, and contributors


Mervyn Singer, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University College London and
Andrew R. Webb, Medical Director, University College London


Links to web resources and related information
More in the same subject area:
Critical care surgery
Intensive care medicine
Intensive care nursing
Accident & emergency nursing
First aid & paramedical services

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