Intensive care
a doctor's journal
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Publication
2000 - University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif, California
Language
English
Word Count
74,000 words, Guess
Page Count
296 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveintensivecaredoc00murr
- Internet Archiveintensivecaredoc0000murr
- ISBN-100520220897
- ISBN-139780520220898
- Library of Congress Control Number99056892
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number42863039
- Better World Books9780520220898
- Open LibraryOL24747342M
Classifications
- DDC362.1/74
- LCCRA975.5.I56 M87 2000
Description
An affecting view from the trenches, a seasoned doctor's minute-by-minute and day-by-day account of life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a major inner-city hospital, San Francisco General. John F. Murray, for many years Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division of the hospital and a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, takes readers on his daily ward rounds, introducing them to the desperately ill patients he treats as well as to the young physicians and medical students who accompany him. Writing with compassion and knowledge accumulated over a long career, Murray presents the true stories of patients who show up with myriad disorders: asthma, cardiac failure, gastrointestinal diseases, complications due to AIDS, the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, emphysema. Readers will come away from this book with a comprehensive understanding of what an ICU is, what it does, who gets admitted, and how doctors and nurses make decisions concerning life-threatening medical problems.
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