Clinical Critical Care Medicine

Comprehensive and clinically oriented, this new text helps you provide the highest standard of care for patients in the ICU―in 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.