Publisher's Synopsis
Recommended in the Brandon/Hill selected list of print books and journals for the small medical library - April 2001 & 2003 Completely rewritten and updated for the Third Edition, this Spiral Manual remains the leading quick- eference guide to both medical and surgical intensive care. The essential principles, protocols, and techniques from Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine , Fourth Edition have been distilled into a portable, practical manual that is ideal for rapid bedside consultation. The user-friendly format features more than 300 tables and 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
