Handbook of Communication in Anaesthesia & Critical Care

A Practical Guide to Exploring the Art

Cover Art for 9780199577286, Handbook of Communication in Anaesthesia & Critical Care by Allan M. Cyna, Marion I. Andrew, Suyin G. M. Tan, Andrew F. Smith
ISBN: 9780199577286
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11 November, 2010
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Links Australian Libraries (Trove)

This book provides anaesthetists, intensivists and other critical care staff with a comprehensive resource that offers ways of improving communication in everyday clinical practice, and provides practical communication tools that can be used in difficult or unfamiliar circumstances. It demonstrates how communication can be structured to improve patient care and safety with numerous practical examples and vignettes illustrating how the concepts discussed can beintegrated into clinical practice, and presents ideas in a way that enhances clinical interactions with patients and colleagues and facilitate the teaching of trainees. Section 1 contains theoretical and research-based material on which the communication models and concepts used inthe book are based. Section 2 details examples of how communication skills can be integrated into clinical practice. Section 3 addresses special situations including: obstetrics; paediatrics; needle phobia; how to break bad news; and the Intensive Care Unit. Section 4 provides examples of other interpersonal and professional communication skills relevant to the acute care clinician such as, 'Talking to surgeons' and 'Team communication'. Finally, Section 5 builds on many of the concepts usedearlier in the book and briefly presents how the innovative use of advanced 'hypnotic' communication skills can supplement and enhance anaesthesia and critical care. Edited by practising anaesthetists with particular expertise in teaching communication, and with contributions fromexpert clinicians based in North America, Europe and Australasia, this book will stimulate and complement the development of comprehensive resources for communication skills teaching in anaesthesia and other related professional groups.

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