Critical Care Medicine: Principles of Diagnosis and Management in the Adult

Critical Care Medicine: Principles of Diagnosis and Management in the Adult

By Joseph E. Parrillo, R. Phillip Dellinger

* Number Of Pages: 1808
* Publication Date: 2007-12-04

Description:
Here's the most clinically oriented critical care text focusing on the adult patient. In full-color and superbly illustrated with clinical photographs, imaging studies, and management algorithms, and with a broad multidisciplinary focus, this text will help you enhance your skills at any level of training.

* Stands alone as a clinically oriented comprehensive reference.
* Completely updated and authorship expanded to reflect the evolution in critical care practice.
* In color for the first time, with new color schematics and treatment algorithms for greater ease of reference.
* Utilizes key points lists at the end of chapter, to help you make decisions rapidly and easily.
* Delivers key references that list other useful resources for information.
* Includes these seven new chapters to keep you on the cutting edge of your specialty:
o Assessment of Cardiac Filling and Blood Flow
o Mechanical Ventilation of Obstructive Airways Disease
o Mechanical Ventilation of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
o Severe Sepsis and Multiple Organ Dysfunction
o Stroke
o Delirium, Psychosis, Sleep and Depression in the ICU
o ICU Education