Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Critical Care Administration

A Comprehensive Clinical Guide

  • Book
  • © 2020

Overview

Editors:
  1. Jorge Hidalgo

    1. Division of Critical Care, Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Belize City, Belize

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Javier Pérez-Fernández

    1. Department of Critical Care Services, Baptist Hospital of Miami, Miami, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Gloria Rodríguez-Vega

    1. Department of Critical Care and Neurocritical Care, HIMA-San Pablo, Caguas, Puerto Rico

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • One of the few dedicated resources on critical care administration

  • Provides a thorough framework for how to develop an efficient, cost-effective critical care program

  • Written by experts in the field

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 79.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 99.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Critical Care Services: Scope of Practice

    • Janice Zimmerman, Mukhtar Al-Saadi
    Pages 1-20

  3. Planning and Budgeting

    • Ahmed Taha, Gloria Rodríguez-Vega
    Pages 21-41

  4. Setting the Goals

    • Mary Jane Reed, A. Joseph Layon
    Pages 43-52

  5. Administration Support

    • Asad Latif, Ho Geol Ryu, Todd Dorman
    Pages 53-68

  6. Quality Indicators: The Use of Metrics in Critical Care Medicine

    • Sergio L. Zanotti Cavazzoni
    Pages 69-81

  7. Internal Financial Audits in the ICU

    • J. Christopher Farmer
    Pages 83-90

  8. Models of Staffing

    • Ruth Kleinpell, Stephen M. Pastores
    Pages 91-100

  9. Tele-ICU

    • Zeid Kalarikkal, Shaun L. Thompson
    Pages 101-110

  10. Digital Transformation: The Smart ICU

    • Javier Pérez-Fernández, Nestor A. Raimondi, Francisco Murillo Cabezas
    Pages 111-125

  11. Protocols, Policies, and Procedures: Tools for Quality Improvement in Critical Care

    • Andrew T. Levinson, Mitchell M. Levy
    Pages 127-136

  12. ICU Design

    • Paul C. Yodice
    Pages 137-157

  13. Disaster Preparedness and Management

    • Lewis J. Kaplan, Samuel Tisherman
    Pages 159-175

  14. Critical Care Educational Modeling

    • Jason L. Bartock, R. Phillip Dellinger
    Pages 177-188

  15. Humanizing Critical Care

    • Gabriel Heras, Jerry Zimmerman, Jorge Hidalgo
    Pages 189-197

  16. Billing and Coding

    • Dixan Gonzalez, Martha Ruiz, Javier Pérez-Fernández
    Pages 199-206

  17. Intensive Care Burnout

    • Cory Franklin
    Pages 207-214

  18. Complementary Therapies

    • Marie R. Baldisseri
    Pages 215-226

  19. Establishing a Research Program in the ICU

    • Laurence W. Busse, Alex Hall, Jonathan Sevransky
    Pages 227-255

  20. The Safety of Patients in Critical Care

    • María Cruz Martín Delgado
    Pages 257-271
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview on critical care administration. The text reviews important aspects and considerations involved in developing an efficient, cost-effective critical care program, while maintaining a safe and high-quality work environment. Major topics covered include different models of critical care services, planning and budgeting, administration support, staffing models, tele/smart ICU, protocols and guidelines, and disaster preparedness and management.



Written by experts in the field, Critical Care Administration: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide is a practical, handy resource for critical care professionals involved in the administration and management of ICUs.  

Reviews


Editors and Affiliations

  • Division of Critical Care, Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Belize City, Belize

    Jorge Hidalgo

  • Department of Critical Care Services, Baptist Hospital of Miami, Miami, USA

    Javier Pérez-Fernández

  • Department of Critical Care and Neurocritical Care, HIMA-San Pablo, Caguas, Puerto Rico

    Gloria Rodríguez-Vega

About the editors

Jorge Hidalgo, MD, MCCM, MACP, FCCP
Professor of Critical Care
Head Division of Critical Care
Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital
Belize City, Belize
Central America


Javier Pérez-Fernández, MD, FCCM, FCCP
Medical Director, Critical Care Services
Baptist Hospital of Miami
South Florida Critical Care Services
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Florida International University
Herbert Wertheim School of Medicine
Miami, FL
USA


Gloria M. Rodríguez-Vega, MD, MCCM, FACP, FCCP
Chief, Department of Critical Care 
Director, Neurosurgical ICU
HIMA-San Pablo-Caguas, 
Caguas
Puerto Rico

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Critical Care Administration

  • Book Subtitle: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide

  • Editors: Jorge Hidalgo, Javier Pérez-Fernández, Gloria Rodríguez-Vega

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33808-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33807-7Published: 11 January 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33810-7Published: 11 January 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-33808-4Published: 10 January 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 277

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Intensive / Critical Care Medicine

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation