How to Avoid Errors in Emergency and Intensive Care

Pocket-sized volume (14 × 21 cm), 700 pages, with numerous tables.

This pocket-sized volume provides a comprehensive overview of the most common errors made by physicians, intensivists, residents, nurses, and nurse anesthetists working in Emergency Departments and Intensive Care Units.

The book offers practical, easy-to-remember clinical pearls designed to help healthcare professionals avoid mistakes and improve patient safety. It is also well suited for quick consultation during daily clinical practice.

Each error is addressed within a clinically relevant chapter and includes clear lists of actions that should always or never be performed in a specific setting, along with practical advice on how to prevent or manage problems.

The volume covers all major aspects of Emergency and Intensive Care practice, including: medications; devices, lines, tubes, catheters, drains, and procedures; ventilators, airway management, intubation and extubation; infectious diseases; shock, fluids, and electrolytes; neurological and neurosurgical intensive care; laboratory testing; nutrition; renal disease; blood management; diagnostic imaging studies; pregnancy; and burns.