Comprehensive and clinically oriented, this new text helps you provide the highest standard of care for patients in the ICUin one full-color volume. An international cast of experts offers in-depth, authoritative guidance on clinical problems from a multitude of perspectives. Inside, you'll find a user-friendly format with a consistent organization from chapter to chapter for easy reference, and a bonus CD-ROM containing all of the illustrations from the text for use in PowerPoint slide presentations.

Offers you the insights and benefits of critical care research being performed outside the U.S. Combines practical, clinical guidance with the basic science necessary to effectively treat and manage critical care patients. Emphasizes the practice of critical care, including general organ system monitoring and support. Covers the wide range of diseases, disorders, and trauma encountered in the ICU. Discusses everything from biologic response to stress to mechanical ventilation to problems associated with infectious diseases. Includes detailed discussions on the hottest topics in the field, including mechanical ventilation * assessment for weaning * pregnancy-related critical care * and bioterrorism and unusual critical care medicine conditions. Uses over 600 full-color illustrations that explain every detail. Offers a differential diagnosis table, a management algorithm, a therapeutic implications flowchart, and a controversies box in every clinical disorders chapter. Includes a BONUS CD-ROM that lets you download all of the superb full-color illustrations from the book into PowerPoint.

Illustrated with full color diagrams and clinical photographs, this textbook for students and practitioners covers the diagnosis and management of patients in critical care. Written from an international perspective, it features the combined expertise of 112 authors from 14 different countries. The 64 chapters are organized into ten sections corresponding to various body systems (cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, etc.) or presenting problems. Coverage extends to discussions of such topics as pregnancy-related critical care, carbon monoxide poisoning, and bioterrorism. Editor Albert teaches medicine at the U. of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Comprehensive and clinically oriented, this new text helps you provide the highest standard of care for patients in the ICUin one full-color volume. An international cast of experts offers in-depth, authoritative guidance on clinical problems from a multitude of perspectives. Inside, you'll find a user-friendly format with a consistent organization from chapter to chapter for easy reference, and a bonus CD-ROM containing all of the illustrations from the text for use in PowerPoint slide presentations.