tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "An “encyclopaedia” for anaesthesia and intensive care medicine: is it possible"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: An “encyclopaedia” for anaesthesia and intensive care medicine: is it possible? | Available online http content 9 4 E14 Book report An encyclopaedia for anaesthesia and intensive care medicine is it possible Herwig Gerlach Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Director Department of Anesthesiology Intensive Care and Pain Management Vivantes Klinikum Neukoelln Berlin Germany Corresponding author Herwig Gerlach Published online 1 February 2005 Critical Care 2005 9 E14 DOI cc3056 This article is online at http content 9 4 E14 2005 BioMed Central Ltd Yentis SM Hirsch NP Smith GB Eds Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine A-Z An Encyclopaedia of Principles and Practice 3rd edition. Edinburgh Butterworth Heinemann 2004. 564 pp. ISBN 0-7506-8777-0 An encyclopaedia is described as a work containing exhaustive information on some one branch of knowledge Oxford English Dictionary . This is truly a high pretension of Steven Yentis and his co-editors for their new edition of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine A-Z An Encyclopaedia of Principles and Practice. According to the Preface the authors have tried to produce a readily accessible source of information for candidates preparing for the examinations at the Royal College of Anaesthetists. The first edition found acceptance from a broad readership -trainees and practitioners anaesthetists and intensivists. Meanwhile the content has extended markedly and the current version has more than 550 pages. As one leafs through the book the high quality of the 166 figures and 35 tables is striking. Combining due simplicity and necessary accuracy the figures present elementary facts about basic anatomy physiology pharmacology and specific topics. Within the text numerous cross-references are of considerable help to the reader in finding related topics and important basic information. The short historical reviews support a better understanding of the complex background. Another feature of the book is the parallelism of scientific basics