Critical-Care Books

A comprehensive review of critical care by some of the leading experts throughout the world. A guide to management of the sickest of the sick including the end of life care which is a requisite for everyone practicing in the field. Highly recommended.

This book is superb. It is thoughtful, thorough, and comprehensive in explaining all aspects of infectious endocarditis, from the perspective of cardiologists and infectious disease specialists, but intended and addressed for all physicians. It is academic, while maintaining practical advice and evidence-based recommendations.

I highly recommend this book.

This book contains everything you really need to know about acute care that you can't find in a standard textbook and have probably never been taught before. It is written for:
- junior trainees in internal medicine, general surgery, emergency medicine, anaesthesia and critical care
- clinical medical students
- nursing staff and allied professionals working in critical care areas

Two experienced teachers explain the principles of acute care simply yet comprehensively. This book is practical and case-based. Throughout, `mini-tutorials' expand on the latest thinking or controversies.

Chapters include: patients at risk (recognising critical illness and the use of early warning scores), oxygen, acid-base balance, respiratory failure, fluid balance and volume resuscitation, circulatory failure and the use of inotropes, sepsis, acute renal failure, brain failure and optimising physiology before surgery.

This book is essential reading for anyone who looks after acutely ill adults.

Essentials of Oxygenation is a marvelous book. It is certainly the best book available for the respiratory therapist,nurse,physician,and anyone else on the complex topic of oxygenation.The authors, Thomas Ahrens and Kim Rutherford, have put this material together in a way that is easy to read and easy to understand. The book is filled with numerous examples that illustrate the concepts covered. The material is organized into short manageable segments that are often related to clinical situations where the concepts are applied. Although Ahrens and Rutherford are both critical care nurses, the book is not centered on a nursing diagnosis format but is made applicable to everyone interested in this subject. It is one of my favorite books and one that I go back to again and again.

This is a very well written book. It provides good pathophysiology reviews and practical approach to pediatric ICU. I like the section at the end of each chapter addressing the future trends and and what is under active research related to the topic. I am waiting for a new eddition especially that this book is out of print and very hard to find.

This is a very well written book. It provides good pathophysiology reviews and practical approach to pediatric ICU. I like the section at the end of each chapter addressing the future trends and and what is under active research related to the topic. I am waiting for a new eddition especially that this book is out of print and very hard to find.

This is a very well written book. It provides good pathophysiology reviews and practical approach to pediatric ICU. I like the section at the end of each chapter addressing the future trends and and what is under active research related to the topic. I am waiting for a new eddition especially that this book is out of print and very hard to find.

Broad and thorough book for all directors and managers in intensive care, covering many quality and financial aspects.

Margaret Robbins has written an outstanding introduction to an evidence based approach to palliative medicine. This book should be useful to students and practitioners alike.

The book doesn't over-simplify. The author has a great deal of experience; highly rated.

This book is essential reading for clinicians, administrators, and researchers in all fields of health care. In a clear and easily understandable way, the author describes how to identify inefficient and unproductive steps in the process of health care delivery, and how to confirm whether the process as a whole is well designed for the health outcomes that it seeks. His explanations of the statistical tools that he advocates are outstanding. These issues are seldom discussed in medicine -- their significance is first starting to be recognized -- and this book fills an important gap.

If you work in or with a neonatal setting, you will see immediate applications and longlasting need for this book. If your specialty lies elsewhere, I strongly encourage you to translate these ideas to your setting.