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by Septimiu Murgu (Author), Tayfun Caliskan (Author), Hugo Oliveira (Author)
The Essential Intensivist Bronchoscopist is specially designed for physicians, medical students, respiratory therapists, and nurses who work with critically ill patients in the Intensive Care Unit. The Essential Intensivist Bronchoscopist contains 120 multiple choice question/answer sets with detailed explanations and illustrations to help learners become competent bronchoscopists and bronchoscopy assistants. Topics include indications and complications of flexible bronchoscopy in the ICU, percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy, moderate sedation and anesthesia, bronchoscopy in burn, inhalation injury, and trauma victims, bronchoscopy in patients with pulmonary infiltrates, airway bleeding, central airway obstruction, and hypoxemia, difficult airway management, bronchoscopic intubation, and endobronchial valve insertion for patients with advanced emphysema or pneumothorax.Written and peer-reviewed by some of the world's experts in bronchoscopy and interventional pulmonology, The Essential Intensivist Bronchoscopist is officially endorsed by numerous national and international medical societies, and is part of the World Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology's (WABIP) highly acclaimed Bronchoscopy Education Project.
