Critical Care Medicine: Principles of Diagnosis and Management in the Adult, 3e

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:
• Assessment of Cardiac Filling and Blood Flow
• Mechanical Ventilation of Obstructive Airways Disease
• Mechanical Ventilation of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• Severe Sepsis and Multiple Organ Dysfunction
• Stroke
• Delirium, Psychosis, Sleep and Depression in the ICU
• ICU Education