One of the anesthesiologist’s greatest challenges is managing high-risk patients with acute or severe conditions. This issue brings the anesthesiologist up to date on the most important and latest approaches to management of the sickest of patients. Topics covered include managing the patient with sepsis or septic shock; anesthetic considerations for patients in respiratory failure; anesthetic concerns in patients presenting with renal failure; perioperative management of patients with liv...

Intensive Care Unit Manual is a practical, hands-on, how-to manual that covers the full spectrum of conditions encountered in the ICU, guiding you step-by-step from your initial approach to the patient through diagnosis and treatment. Compact, affordable, and comprehensive, the ICU Manual puts all the critical care information you need right at your fingertips! - Stay at the forefront of critical care with a practice-oriented, relevant, and well-illustrated account of the pathophysiology o...

Die Pflichtlektüre für angehende BWL-Studenten!Dieser praktische Ratgeber liefert Antworten auf die entscheidenden Fragen: Welche Inhalte erwarten mich? Wie finanziere ich mein Studium? Wie strukturiere ich die Semester sinnvoll? Was gilt es bei Auslandssemestern zu beachten? Und haben eigentlich alle BWLer den Kragen hoch gestellt? Zahlreiche Anekdoten geben einen unterhaltsamen Einblick in den Studienalltag. Das gnadenlos ehrliche Buch räumt mit gängigen Klischees auf und bereit...

No future ?Le monde s’accélère et se cherche de nouvelles identités économiques, culturelles, virtuelles, sociales, mais aussi juridiques. Le notariat entre dans une nouvelle ère et voit ses compétences de base, telle la vente immobilière, influencées par ces évolutions.La vente immobilière a un bel avenir. Le tout est de trouver les outils pour la garantir, la gérer et la faire grandir.C’est précisément ce défi que relèvent les auteurs du présent ouvrage, sans tabou...

Bolivia has experienced two decades of unprecedented popular resistance to the consequences of neoliberal policies, resulting in the resignation and flight of its president in October 2003. This unusual book uncovers the reasons and processes behind the rising opposition - mirrored in country after country in Latin America - to this currently fashionable, internationally prescribed approach to economic development. It explores the problems faced by governments in reproducing global strateg...

From the Mines to the Streets draws on the life of Félix Muruchi to depict the greater forces at play in Bolivia and elsewhere in South America during the last half of the twentieth century. It traces Félix from his birth in an indigenous family in 1946, just after the abolition of bonded labor, through the next sixty years of Bolivia's turbulent history. As a teenager, Félix followed his father into the tin mines before serving a compulsory year in the military, during which he w...

In this compelling and comprehensive look at the rise of Evo Morales and Bolivia’s Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), Linda Farthing and Benjamin Kohl offer a thoughtful evaluation of the transformations ushered in by the western hemisphere’s first contemporary indigenous president. Accessible to all readers, Evo’s Bolivia not only charts Evo’s rise to power but also offers a history of and context for the MAS revolution’s place in the rising “pink tide” of the political left. Farthi...

Der von Katharina Maehrlein und ihrer Initiative "Stark wie Bambus" organisierte erste Soul@Work-Kongress zur Prävention von psychischen Erkrankungen am Arbeitsplatz im Frühjahr 2014 war ein großer Erfolg. Zahlreiche inspirierende Fachvorträge von Pater Anselm Grün, Walter Kohl, Professor Dr. Lothar Seiwert u.v.m boten fachlichen Austausch über den Tellerrand der üblichen Gesundheitsthemen hinaus. In diesem Sammelband stellen 20 Kongress-Akteure, allesamt renommierte Experten aus Wirtschaf...