Critical Care Medicine: Perioperative Management

This straightforward and highly organized text examines all the basics in providing perioperative care. Published under the auspices of the American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (ASCCA), Critical Care Medicine: Perioperative Management will serve to update both trainees and practitioners on the unique needs of the patient who becomes critically ill perioperatively, or the patient with the established severe pathology who requires surgical intervention or special treatment. The book is divided into three sections. Part I covers basic ICU organization, patient assessment, and general areas of critical care. The organ-specific chapters of Part II cover neurologic, cardiovascular, pulmonary, hepatic, renal, hematologic, and infectious disease assessment and therapy. Part III focuses on subspecialty critical care and the special problems encountered in critical care.