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Details condition: new format: paperback isbn: 9781471173066 publisher: simon & schuster age range: adult overview critical takes readers deep inside the intensive care unit, where every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Dr matt morgan, a practising icu consultant, shares unforgettable true stories of patients whose lives were forever altered by critical illness. Blending clear medical explanation with deeply human narrative, this paperback memoir reveals how the body fails under extreme stress, how modern medicine intervenes, and what survival and loss really look like on the front line of intensive care. About the book in critical, dr matt morgan takes readers on a journey through the body organ by organ, using real patient case histories to explain how critical conditions develop and how icu teams treat them. Each chapter pairs an accessible explanation of the science
From sepsis to trauma to organ failure
With the moving personal stories of the people behind the statistics: the patients, families, and clinicians navigating some of the most intense moments in modern medicine. Written with warmth, honesty and dark humour, the book has been praised by fellow doctor-authors and national press alike for illuminating a part of hospital life most of us never see, but which touches almost every family at some point. It is both an eye-opening primer on critical illness and a compassionate tribute to the resilience of patients and the dedicat...
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