Pediatric Critical Care – Fourth Edition

Genomes 4. Fourth edition

With high-throughput sequencing, transcriptomics, and proteomics no longer in their “infancy” as described in the preface by author T.A. Brown, Genomes 4 offers an expansive review on a broad spectrum of topics in genetics ranging from the central dogma of genes coding for proteins, to the fine technical details of genome mapping. This edition retains the four-part organization from the previou...

Uncertainty Theory Fourth Edition

Handbook of Critical Care, Revised Edition

Written primarily for medical trainees or nurses to use during their first exposure to critical care medicine, this 278-page spiral bound book is a pocket-sized basic intensive care manual. The handbook is divided into 15 chapters, eight substantial ones covering the major organ systems, as well as infection, nutrition, physical injury and toxicology, and brief chapters on scoring systems and o...

Pediatric Critical Care

Critical Care Medicine www.ccmjournal.org 2773 Objectives: To determine the rate of unplanned PICU readmissions, examine the characteristics of index admissions associated with readmission, and compare outcomes of readmissions versus index admissions. Design: Retrospective cohort analysis. Setting: Ninety North American PICUs that participated in the Virtual Pediatric Intensive Care Unit System...

Pediatric Critical Care

Critical Care Medicine www.ccmjournal.org 565 C andida is the third most common agent responsible for healthcare-associated bloodstream infections and is the most common agent responsible for invasive fungal infections in children (1, 2). Candidemia is associated with a high mortality and morbidity among hospitalized patients as well as high healthcare costs (3). Prevalence of candidemia has dr...