<DIV><B>Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022!</B><BR/><BR/>Covering every problem encountered in today’s intensive care unit, this leading critical care textbook presents the knowledge and expertise of more than 350 global experts in this fast-changing field. Beginning with the social aspects of medicine, it then discusses monitoring and organ system pathobiology followed by specific diseases states/syndromes. Each chapter begins with immediate concerns and proceeds to broader-based discussions of relevant pathophysiologic and clinical issues.<BR/><BR/>KEY FEATURES:<ul><li>Features new chapters on Critical Care Implications in Acute Care Surgery, The Obstetric Patient, and Brain Death and Management of the Potential Organ Donor; all chapters thoroughly revised including up-to-date discussions of what happens after the patient leaves the ICU.</li><li>Covers surgical critical care more thoroughly than any other text.</li><li>Includes expert coverage of pharmacology, nu