Textbook of Critical Care, 7th 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.

 

By Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, PhD, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, Universit é Libre de Bruxelles, Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium; Edward Abraham, MD, Professor and Chair, Spencer Chair in Medical Science Leadership, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama; Patrick Kochanek, MD, FCCM, Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Professor of Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, and Clinical and Translational Science, Director, Safar, Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Frederick A. Moore, MD, FACS, FCCM, Professor of Surgery, Head, Acute Care Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida and 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