TY - BOOK AU - AU - AU - TI - Intensive Care Fundamentals: Practically Oriented Essential Knowledge for Newcomers to ICUs T2 - Lessons from the ICU SN - 978-3-031-21990-0 SN - 2522-593 PY - 2023/// CY - Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine Third Faculty of Medicine Charles University Prague, Czech Republic | PB - European Society of Intensive Care Medicine | KW - N2 - This book, part of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) textbook series, is a graphical, dense and concise text describing fundamental theoretical concepts needed for doctors and other professionals new to the field of Intensive Care Medicine. The book serves two main purposes: as study material for any junior doctor, nurse or other allied healthcare professional who is time-pressured and wants to quickly learn the essentials; and as a course volume of new ESICM educational initiative called Intensive Care Fundamentals©. The overarching goal of this initiative is to offer standardised high-quality introductory education to all starters in intensive care. There are two key elements of this initiative: the book, which is the prerequisite reading for attending the two day face-to-face course and the materials, registration of candidate and training and certifying the trainers that will be provided by ESICM UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21991-7 ER -