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Respiratory Failure, Shock and Critical Care
Contents
- 01Respiratory Failure, Shock, and Critical Care
- 02What this book owns, borrows, and refuses
- 03Two failures, one patient: is it oxygen in, or carbon dioxide out?
- 04Where the gas actually stops: the alveolar-capillary unit
- 05Type I versus Type II failure, and the oxygen ladder that separates them
- 06Read the hemodynamics, not the history
- 07Seven lungs, seven sounds, seven first moves
- 08The tubes keeping them alive, and the six ways they fail
- 09The ventilator is alarming: high pressure, low pressure, and what you do first
- 10Exhibit: the septic patient, hour zero
- 11Unfolding case: post-op day two, and the nurse who called it early
- 12Question set A: ten items, respiratory failure and shock
- 13Set A rationales: why the pattern beat the story
- 14Set B: the next-generation items, with condensed rationales
- 15The one-page critical care card and the ten-minute drill