Critical Care Handbook of the Massachusetts General Hospital: Print + eBook with Multimedia

With concise, full-color coverage of this rapidly enlarging field, Critical Care Handbook of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Seventh Edition, is your go-to guide for practical, complete, and current information on medical and surgical critical care. Edited by Drs. Edward A. Bittner, Lorenzo Berra, Peter J. Fagenholz, Jean Kwo, Jarone Lee, and Abraham Sonny, this user-friendly handbook is designed for rapid reference, providing reliable, hospital-tested protocols that reflect today's most advanced critical care practices. An at-a-glance outline format and portable size make it an essential manual for medical students, residents with rotations in ICUs, and physicians and nurses who work in critical care.

Reflects a multidisciplinary approach throughout, in a convenient size for on-the-go reference


Contains well-written, comprehensive coverage of general principles, specific considerations such as ARDS, and health care services such as ICU handoffs and transitions


Uses an efficient outline format with bolded key words and concepts


Includes new chapters on critical care management of COVID-19, heart failure, and pulmonary hypertension

The VST Ebook includes four new videos on Patient Positioning, Direct Laryngoscopy, Blood Cultures, and Fetal Heart Monitoring



Written by MGH attendings, fellows in critical care, nurses, and residents in anesthesia, critical care, and pain medicine, with input from surgery, pulmonary care, pediatrics, neurology, and pharmacy


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