Principles and Practice of Critical Care

Principles and Practice of Critical Care is a comprehensive reference work in which three experienced editors (an intensivist, a cardiothoracic surgeon and an anaesthetist) draw together 69 chapters from a wide range of internationally acclaimed experts from the United Kingdom, USA and Europe to cover the whole subject of critical care medicine. The text embodies currently accepted standards of critical care worldwide and the emphasis throughout is on the practical aspects of multiple organ system support which will be generally applicable to the entire range of disease processes in the critically ill patient. Principles and Practice of Critical Care is divided into sections which cover each organ system in turn and then consider special problems and procedures, postoperative care and critical care unit management. Each chapter considers, in detail, acute system failure and how it is recognised clinically, the underlying pathophysiology, monitoring the course of organ system failure and principles and methods of physiological, pharmacological and mechanical support of the failing system. Principles and Practice of Critical Care is the largest work on thes of all grades working in the field of critical care medicine.