Critical Care Medicine: Principles of Diagnosis and Management

This comprehensive reference covers all aspects of the medical care of critically ill patients, with the emphasis on diagnosis and management. Chapters are disease-orientated, making the text useful in day-to-day practice. Organized in 10 major sections, this text opens with a section on critical care procedures, and proceeds through units on the major body systems. Also covered are infectious diseases, maematologic and oncologic diseases, and physical and toxic injury. The two final sections detail the social, ethnic and psychological issues, and present the illustrative case histories of critically ill patients.