Essentials of Critical Care Medicine

Focused on the fundamental information necessary to complete understanding of critical care medicine, this single volume covers the major disease entities, techniques, and therapies that are commonly encountered in the critical care setting. It should be a valuable study guide and a quick review of the field of critical care medicine and aims to reflect the experience of the physician in critical care medicine with emphasis on cardiopulmonary disease. Largely directed to clinical matters, particularly clinical findings, diagnosis, and management, with some physiologic and technologic details it should be of interest to internists, anaesthetists, surgeons working in the ICU, critical care nurses and technicians, pulmonary physicians and cardiologists.
 
Focused on the fundamental information necessary to complete understanding of critical care medicine, this single volume covers the major disease entities, techniques, and therapies that are commonly encountered in the critical care setting. It should be a valuable study guide and a quick review of the field of critical care medicine and aims to reflect the experience of the physician in critical care medicine with emphasis on cardiopulmonary disease. Largely directed to clinical matters, particularly clinical findings, diagnosis, and management, with some physiologic and technologic details it should be of interest to internists, anaesthetists, surgeons working in the ICU, critical care nurses and technicians, pulmonary physicians and cardiologists.