Life support : the Diary of an ICU doctor on the frontline of the Covid crisis (Record no. 297444)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780241506318
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 610.92
Item number DOW-L
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Down, Jim,
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Life support : the Diary of an ICU doctor on the frontline of the Covid crisis
Statement of responsibility, etc. By Jim Down
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Viking,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. ©2021
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 215P.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Beginning --<br/>Lockdown --<br/>Nightingale --<br/>Decisions --<br/>Public response --<br/>Peak --<br/>Low point --<br/>Recovery.<br/>
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. A powerful, moving account of an intensive care doctor's life on the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic. As a doctor running the intensive care unit at one of London's top hospitals, Jim Down has spent his life working as healthcare's last resort, where the unexpected is always around the corner, and life and death decisions are an everyday occurrence. But nothing had prepared Jim and his team for the events of spring 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic descended. In Life Support, he tells the extraordinary month-by-month story of how as the nation came to a standstill, he and his colleagues donned PPE, received an unprecedented influx of patients, transformed their hospital and took on the biggest challenge in the history of the NHS. The pandemic raised difficult questions for Jim: how do you fight a new disease? How do you go home at night to your wife and young children when you've spent all day around highly infectious patients? How do you tell a mother that her healthy young son has died, only days after falling ill? With warmth, honesty and humour, this book is a gripping, moving testament to the everyday heroism of the NHS staff in a global crisis, and an unforgettable insight into what was really happening in the wards as we clapped on our doorsteps
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Physicians -- Great Britain -- Anecdotes. Critical care medicine -- Great Britain -- Anecdotes.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Book
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 23/09/2021   610.92 DOW-L DCB3961 30/09/2021 30/09/2021 Book