Description

The handbook of “Critical and intensive care medicine” is a concise yet comprehensive guide for attending physicians, fellows, residents, and students who cover the ICU. This book includes thoroughly updated and new chapters. In these units, thousands of medical students, residents, fellows and attending physicians spend several months or years of their professional lives taking care of critically ill or severely injured patients. These clinicians must have special training, experience, and competence in managing complex problems in their patients. They must interpret the data obtained by many kinds of monitoring devices, and they must integrate this information with their knowledge of the pathophysiology of disease. There is a real need for a good "pocket-reference" book in this field. Intensive Care Medicine textbooks are too voluminous to be portable. Some of them have emphasis on research topics with little or no consideration for the actual management of the critically ill patient. For the house officer or medical student, a pocket ICU reference will have great utility and relevance, even when on a rotation that is not critical care oriented.