tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " Paediatric intensive care: the why and how for trainees"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Paediatric intensive care: the why and how for trainees. | Available online http content 6 3 275 Book report Paediatric intensive care the why and how for trainees Robert C Tasker Consultant University Lecturer in Paediatrics and Intensive Care Medicine and Director of Medical Education in Paediatrics University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Cambridge UK Correspondence Robert C Tasker rct31@ Published online 25 April 2002 Critical Care 2002 6 275 2002 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X Keywords child critical care intensive care therapeutics Pearson GA Handbook of Paediatric Intensive Care. London . Saunders Harcourt Publishers Limited 2002. 336 pp. ISBN 0-70-202346-9 pbk . Ask any trainee there is a very steep learning curve during the first 6 months of a new job in critical care. If they are good and their unit is any good the trainees will have acquired a number of protocols and clinical recipes within a matter of weeks. But that is not the point - certainly not from my perspective as their educational supervisor. What I wish to see is evidence of thought a drawing together of the basic principles and understanding of pathophysiology and a creative application to real clinical problems. Surprisingly I found Gale Pearson s Handbook of Paediatric Intensive Care an enjoyable read. I had expected to find yet another small book of unreadable lists and protocols. Instead what I discovered was a text that provoked reflection about why we do what we do in paediatric critical care. This is consequently not a pocketbook that can be easily used at the bedside. Rather this handbook is something that should be consumed during that coffee break after the action. But that said I highly recommend it as a starting point for all trainees working on paediatric intensive care units. This book has 20 chapters numerous illustrative figures and user-friendly tables and fact-boxes. There is a good 7-page introduction for the new trainee instructing them on who comes to work on a .