Publisher's Synopsis
Rewritten and updated, this quick-reference guide to both medical and surgical intensive care distils the essential principles, protocols and techniques from the fourth edition of "Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine". The user-friendly format features tables, illustrations and annotated references to the key literature.;This edition's highlights include: expanded coverage of all aspects of surgical intensive care; an updated atlas of procedures and techniques; and a complete 33-chapter guide to pharmacology, overdoses and poisonings. Sections on shock and trauma, coronary care, neurologic problems, rheumatologic and immunologic problems, and psychiatric issues have been fundamentally rewritten.
