Principles of Critical Care: Companion Handbook

Critical care medicine is defined not by a region of the body but by a region of the hospital-the Intensive Care Unit-and the nature of the equipment used. This definitive reference achieves several distinctly different goals than any other text available today. The two most important goals are the explication of the complex pathophysiology common to all critically ill patients, which spans diverse disease processes and medical sub-specialties; and the in-depth discussion of particular procedures, issues, and diseases that are integral to the assessment and treatment of the critically ill and the management of the modern Intensive Care Unit.