Download or read book Critical Norths written by Sarah Jaquette Ray and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millennia, “the North” has held a powerful sway in Western culture. Long seen through contradictions—empty of life yet full of promise, populated by indigenous communities yet ripe for conquest, pristine yet marked by a long human history—it has moved to the foreground of contemporary life as the most dramatic stage for the reality of climate change. This book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to ask key questions about the North and how we’ve conceived it—and how conceiving of it in those terms has caused us to fail the region’s human and nonhuman life. Engaging questions of space, place, indigeneity, identity, nature, the environment, justice, narrative, history, and more, it offers a crucial starting point for an essential rethinking of both the idea and the reality of the North.
Download or read book Critical Regionalism written by Douglas Reichert Powell and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of "region" in America has often served to isolate places from each other, observes Douglas Reichert Powell. Whether in the nostalgic celebration of folk cultures or the urbane distaste for "hicks," certain regions of the country are identified as static, insular, and culturally disconnected from everywhere else. In Critical Regionalism, Reichert Powell explores this trend and offers alternatives to it. Reichert Powell proposes using more nuanced strategies that identify distinctive aspects of particular geographically marginal communities without turning them into peculiar "hick towns." He enacts a new methodology of critical regionalism in order to link local concerns and debates to larger patterns of history, politics, and culture. To illustrate his method, in each chapter of the book Reichert Powell juxtaposes widely known texts from American literature and film with texts from and about his own Appalachian hometown of Johnson City, Tennessee. He carries the idea further in a call for a critical regionalist pedagogy that uses the classroom as a place for academic writers to build new connections with their surroundings, and to teach others to do so as well.
Download or read book North of Intention written by Steve McCaffery and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Criticism. Second Edition. Co-published with Nightwood Editions, Toronto, NORTH OF INTENTION is thedefinitive collection of Steve McCaffery's critical writing, spanning theyears in which he solidified his reputation as English Canada's mostaccomplished experimental writer. It is a must for any serious student ofcontemporary poetry and poetics and a testament to McCaffery's persistentrefusal to barter with NAFTA-like terms of traditional exegesis. "NORTH OF INTENTION is a panoramic, erotic, anti-accumulative collectionof essays centering on the formally investigative North American poetryof the 1970s and 1980s. McCaffery's high-theoretical performances reclaimliterary theory for engaged literary practices" Charles Bernstein."
Download or read book Going Critical written by Joel S. Wit and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-04-19 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade before being proclaimed part of the "axis of evil," North Korea raised alarms in Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo as the pace of its clandestine nuclear weapons program mounted. When confronted by evidence of its deception in 1993, Pyongyang abruptly announced its intention to become the first nation ever to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, defying its earlier commitments to submit its nuclear activities to full international inspections. U.S. intelligence had revealed evidence of a robust plutonium production program. Unconstrained, North Korea's nuclear factory would soon be capable of building about thirty Nagasaki-sized nuclear weapons annually. The resulting arsenal would directly threaten the security of the United States and its allies, while tempting cash-starved North Korea to export its deadly wares to America's most bitter adversaries. In Go ing Critical, three former U.S. officials who played key roles in the nuclear crisis trace the intense efforts that led North Korea to freeze—and pledge ultimately to dismantle—its dangerous plutonium production program under international inspection, while the storm clouds of a second Korean War gathered. Drawing on international government documents, memoranda, cables, and notes, the authors chronicle the complex web of diplomacy--from Seoul, Tokyo, and Beijing to Geneva, Moscow, and Vienna and back again—that led to the negotiation of the 1994 Agreed Framework intended to resolve this nuclear standoff. They also explore the challenge of weaving together the military, economic, and diplomatic instruments employed to persuade North Korea to accept significant constraints on its nuclear activities, while deterring rather than provoking a violent North Korean response. Some ten years after these intense negotiations, the Agreed Framework lies abandoned. North Korea claims to possess some nuclear weapons, while threatening to produce even more. The story of the 1994 confrontatio
Download or read book Pediatric Critical Care An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America E Book written by Mary Lieh-Lai and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Mary Lieh-Lai and Katherine Cashen bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Pediatric Critical Care. The most common indications for admission to the PICU include respiratory disease, cardiac disease, and neurologic disorders. In this issue, top experts in the field provide current clinical knowledge about these admissions as well as other important critical care admissions, including COVID-19. - Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including PICU pharmacology; COVID-19 in children; mechanical ventilation and respiratory support of critically ill children; cardiovascular critical care in children; neurocritical care in children; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews on pediatric critical care, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Download or read book Quality An Issue of Critical Nursing Clinics of North America written by Barbara Leeper and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue contains a series of articles focused on various initiatives aimed at improving the quality of patient care delivery and promoting safe passage across the continuum of care. Exemplary, evidence-based nursing practice is the cornerstone of quality care, and this issue highlights many ways in which nurses have led changes to optimize patient outcomes. In addition, quality care enhances cost-effectiveness by reducing avoidable complications and diminishing avoidable hospital readmissions, a concept more important than ever due to value-based purchasing and the Affordable Care Act. Articles are specifically devoted to prevention of delirium in critical care patients, palliative care in the intensive care unit, prevention of pressure ulcers, fall prevention in high-risk patients, prevention readmissions, preventing sepsis mortality, and nursing interventions in the elderly critical care patient, to name a few.
Download or read book Nephrology An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America E Book written by Sherry Rivera and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, guest editor and Instructor of Clinical Nursing Dr. Sherry Rivera brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Nephrology. Nurses care for patients with acute, chronic, and end-stage kidney disease in all patient care settings. Early recognition of risk and disease can improve health outcomes and delay progression of disease. In this issue, top experts provide expert coverage of issues frequently encountered when providing nursing care to individuals with kidney disease. - Contains 14 practice-oriented topics including medications and the kidney; race-based estimated glomerular filtration rate; acid-base disturbance and electrolyte disorders in nephrology patients; complications of kidney disease; COVID-19 and kidney disease; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews on nephrology in critical care nursing, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Download or read book Pediatric Critical Care Medicine An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America written by Kathleen L. Meert and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topics in this issue represent the most current research areas of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN). The CPCCRN is a national pediatric critical care research network that is charged with investigating the efficacy of treatment and management strategies to care for critically ill and injured children, as well as to better understand the pathophysiological basis of critical illness and injury in childhood. The proposed authors are past and present principal and co-investigators affiliated with the CPCCRN; the proposed topics represent the individual author’s area of clinical and research expertise. Each review article is an up-to-date review of the topic relevant to practicing clinicians and trainees in critical care medicine, with incorporation of the most recently published research findings pertinent to the topic, some of which may be the author’s own. The specific articles are devoted to the following topics: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in pediatric and cardiac ICU; Approach to the critically ill pediatric trauma patient; Transfusion Decision Making in Pediatric Critical Illness; Pathophysiology and management of ARDS in children; Ventilator associate pneumonias in critically ill children; Mechanical ventilation and decision support in pediatric intensive care; Inflammation, pathobiology, phenotypes and sepsis: From meningococcemia to H1N1-MRSA, to Ebola; Immune paralysis in pediatric critical care; Molecular biology of critical illness; Sedation in pediatric critical illness; Delirium in pediatric critical illness; Challenges of drug development in pediatric intensive care; Potential of All Steroid Hormone Subclasses as Adjunctive Treatment for Sepsis; Morbidity: Changing the outcome paradigm; and End-of-Life and Bereavement Care in Pediatric Intensive Care Units.
Download or read book Pain Management An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America written by Lynn C. Parsons and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2024-10-30 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pain Management, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America
Download or read book Critical Care An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America Exotic Animal Practice E Book written by Lily Parkinson and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of Veterinary Clinics: Exotic Animal Practice, guest editor Dr. Lily Parkinson brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Critical Care. With today's improved emergency care, further advanced, nuanced, and prolonged critical care is required. Focusing on the critical care of exotic animal patients after the initial emergency triage and stabilization, this issue discusses aspects of critical care as they relate to many different species, which all have unique physiologies and requirements for their optimal care. - Contains 13 practice-oriented topics including mental status and coma scores; cardiovascular monitoring and assessment; point of care ultrasound; nutritional support; water quality and dissolved gases; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews of exotic animal critical care, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Download or read book Critical Care Emergencies An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America written by Evie Marcolini and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drs. Evie Marcolini and Haney Mallemat have assembled an expert panel of authors focusing on: Sepsis, Shock, Assessment and Treatment of the Trauma Patient in Shock, Coagulopathy and Hemorrhage, Vasopressors & Inotropes, Assessing Volume Status, Neurotrauma, Mechanical Circulatory Support, End of life, and more!
Download or read book Neuromonitoring and Assessment An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America written by Catherine Harris and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neuromonitoring is a broad term that essentially accounts for the essence of neuroscience nursing. Nurses working with critically ill, neurologically impaired patients should have a foundation in not only in invasive neuromonitoring, but the more subtle aspects of care. Nurses must understand that they are the most important tool in monitoring patients and interpreting the data. This issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics will bring together the critical aspects of neuromonitoring in the intensive care units that can be used as a resource for nurses. Some articles included are devoted to Temperature Targeted Management; Refractory Intracranial Pressure Management; Blood pressure monitoring controversies; Invasive Neuromonitoring; Neuroradiology Review; Nursing Monitoring of Critically Ill Neurological Patients; Case Studies in EEG monitoring; and Neuromonitoring in the Operating Room.
Download or read book Sepsis An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America written by Jennifer L. Martin and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2018-08-11 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Collaboration with Consulting Editor, Dr. Jan Foster, Drs. Martin and Badeaux have created an issue where top authors in critical care nursing provide current updates on sepsis care and management. Authors have written clinical reviews on the following topics: International Sepsis Guidelines 2016; Pros and Cons of Early Administration of Intravenous Fluids; PTSD After ICU Stay; Role of Vitamin C and Carbon Monoxide in Sepsis; Neonatal Sepsis; Use of Etomidate in the Septic Patient; Simulation to Manage the Septic Patient in the ICU; Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Sepsis management; Hospital Costs associated with Sepsis Compared to other Medical Conditions; Special Considerations for the Septic Patient Going to the Operating Room; Management of the Septic Patient in the Emergency Room; and Management of Sepsis in the Obstetrical Patient. Reader will come away with the information they need to improve patient outcomes.
Download or read book Resuscitation An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America written by Justin H. DiLibero and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, Guest Editor Justin Dilibero brings his considerable expertise to the topic of resuscitation. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as trauma, sepsis, burns, pediatrics, cardiac arrest, and more. - Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on resuscitation for critical care nurses, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews. - Contains 12 relevant, practice-oriented topics including improving resuscitation outcomes in severe traumatic brain injury; targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest; family presence and support during resuscitation; the role of the tele-ICU; and more.
Download or read book Emergency and Critical Care An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America Equine Practice written by Diana M. Hassel and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drs. Diana Hassel and Vanessa Cook have put together an expert team of authors focused on emergency and critical care topics. Articles include: Field Triage of the Neonatal Foal, CPR in the neonatal foal: has RECOVER changed our approach?, Update on the management of neonatal sepsis, SIRS or endotoxemia?, Ultrasound of the equine acute abdomen, Evaluation of the colic: Decision for referral, The utility of lactate in critically ill adults and neonates, Crystalloid and colloid therapy, Acute hemorrhage and blood transfusions, Coagulopathies, and more!
Download or read book Emergency and Critical Care An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America Exotic Animal Practice written by Margaret Fordham and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Exotic Animal Practice focuses on Emergency and Critical Care. Articles include:. Basic Shock Physiology and Critical Care;Common Emergencies in Pet Birds; Emergency and Critical Care in Pet Birds; Common Emergencies of Small Mammals; Critical Care, Analgesia and Anesthesia of Small Mammals; Toxicologic Emergencies in Exotics; Common Wildlife Emergencies; Arachnid and Insect Emergency Care, Rabbit Physiology and Treatment for Shock? and more!
Download or read book Palliative Care An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America E Book written by Angie Malone and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2022-02-26 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue, guest editors bring their considerable expertise to this important topic.Provides in-depth reviews on the latest updates in the field, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.
