Textbook of Critical Care E-Book , 7th Edition

Description

Comprehensive, concise, and readable, Textbook of Critical Care, 7th Edition, brings you fully up to date with the effective management of critically ill patients, providing the evidence-based guidance you need to overcome a full range of practice challenges. Drs. Jean-Louis Vincent, Edward Abraham, Frederick A. Moore, Patrick Kochanek, and Mitchell P. Fink are joined by other international experts who offer a multidisciplinary approach to critical care, sharing expertise in anesthesia, surgery, pulmonary medicine, and pediatrics. This highly acclaimed text offers ICU clinicians a new understanding of the pathophysiology of critical illness and new therapeutic approaches to critical care.

Reviews

"could be considered the gold standard intensive care medicine reference text"

"This book remains a worldwide standard for English-speaking critical care providers. Content has been updated and quality of presentations is excellent. …this is the most effective multidisciplinary adult and pediatric critical care reference currently available."

- David Dries, MD (University of Minnesota Medical School) for Doody’s Review Services

Key Features

• Features a wealth of tables, boxes, algorithms, diagnostic images, and key points that clarify important concepts and streamline complex information for quick reference.
• Includes procedural videos online.
• Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

New to this Edition

• Includes many new chapters on echocardiography, antibiotic stewardship, antiviral agents, coagulation and anti-coagulation, , telemedicine, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), and more.
• Offers new coverage of biomarkers, bedside ultrasound, and the management of increasingly complex critically ill patients.
• Provides new approaches to sepsis, acute kidney injury, and management of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and other forms of respiratory failure.

Companion Products

• Textbook of Critical Care, 7th Edition

Table of Contents

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Author Information

By Mitchell P. Fink, MD, Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology, Vice Chair for Critical Care, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of MedicineUniversity of California – Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Edited by Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, PhD, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, Universit é Libre de Bruxelles, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium and Frederick A. Moore, MD, MCCM, Professor of Surgery, Head, Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida