ABC of Intensive Care

ABC of Intensive Care, 2nd Revised edition--------------------------------------------------This new and updated edition is a practical guide to intensive carefor the non-specialist, providing the core knowledge and principlesof intensive care patient management. From general principles throughto critical care outreach and end of life care, it covers best practicemanagement in the intensive care unit. It includes the key organ systemsupport as well as monitoring, sepsis, brain-stem death, and nutritionin intensive care. There is also full coverage of organ donation. Thisinvaluable resource is highly illustrated in colour throughout withnew images, references to key evidence, and further reading and resourcesin each chapter. It is ideal for junior doctors, medical students andspecialist nurses working in an acute hospital setting and the ICUand neonatal ICU, and for anyone involved in the management and careof intensive care patients. Endorsed by the Intensive Care Society(UK) and the Scottish Intensive Care Society.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Graham Nimmo, Western General Hospital, EdinburghMervyn Singer, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University CollegeLondon, London, UK.