VITAL SIGNS: STORIES FROM INTENSIVE CARE
Book ID/图书代码： 13600009B32829
English Summary/英文概要： The majority of us now die in hospitals and many of us will end up in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for the last few days of our lives. Yet for most people, what happens in an ICU remains a mystery.
This collection of stories about the experiences of intensive care patients, their families and carers, is about ordinary people facing terrible tragedies and the ways they cope with them.
The author, a practicing intensive care clinician, takes the reader on a journey inside an ICU and reveals to the public, for the first time, what really happens inside ICU. The book traces the personal tragedies of ICU patients and their families and the struggles of staff providing care in this critical environment. The core function of the ICU has slowly changed from being life saving to becoming life sustaining - even when there is no hope of a meaningful recovery. Admission to the ICU is often sudden and unexpected and there are few guidelines for dealing with dying under these circumstances.
ICU patients are often in a coma or sedated, which means decisions relating to their care must be made by their families. Many of the stories in this collection are about the dilemmas associated with withdrawing and withholding treatment that are faced by family and medical staff in ICU each day. They are about the ways we die and the ways we deal with death. They are about the people who care for us in our last moments: not only our friends and family, but the doctors and nurses who care for us and face these tragedies daily. The book carefully details the pressures on staff and the ways they cope with the intensity of providing this level of care. It is brimming with moments of humour and sadness that cut through the institutional reality of ICU, revealing the very human experience of this institution.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如果你的生命只剩下一天，你最想做什麼事？
看 一整天的電影、打一整天的籃球、逛一整天的街、與心愛的人在一起，或 乾脆什麼都不做？
在 人世間的最後一天，你/妳應該都不會希望在加護病房裡面度過！
大多數的人們在醫院中度過餘年，而其中許多人在醫院中的加護病房中孤單地死去；然而，生命最終程--待在加護病房的 日子，對大多數的人來說，無疑是件悲慘的事。
這本書集結了許多在加護病房中的故事，包括他們的家人以及護理者，都是一些平凡的小人物，當面臨重大的悲劇時，他們都如何看待和處理…
本書作者KEN HILLMAN是個重症監護臨床醫師，在國際將相當知名；將帶領讀 者前往加護病房之旅，將加護病房內的大小事揭露給廣大群眾。
本書追溯了加護病房中的病人悲劇，以及他們的家人如何從加護病房的環境中奮鬥。(SL)
Awards/获奖情况：全球頂尖臨床醫師KEN HILLMAN，在報章上發表了若干重要文章，且接受許多電視和廣播節目的採訪。
相關影片連結
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2010/s2810506.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2009/2728805.htm
Comments
‘Hillman presents an undiluted portal that allows the reader to view life and death from behind the hospital curtain.’---Professor Mohamed Khadra, author of The Patient and Making the Cut:A surgeon’s story of life on the edge
‘A thought provoking and emotional read.’---Dr Fiona Wood AM, Australian of the Year 2005
‘These beautiful and profoundly humane stories invite us into the unique world of intensive care,
where the rawest and deepest of emotions meet the highest level of technology.’---Professor.
About the Author/作者介绍： 《那些來自加護病房的真實故事》by KEN HILLMAN本書一上市即狂銷完畢，現正再版中。 全球頂尖臨床醫師KEN HILLMAN，在報章上 發表了若干重要文章，且曾接受許多電視和廣播節目的採訪。
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
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