By
Mitchell Fink, MD, Watson Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Chair and Professor, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Edward Abraham, MD, Roger Sherman Profsesor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Head, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vice President, Administrative Affairs, Department of Medicine University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO
Jean-Louis Vincent, MD PhD, Professor of Critical Care Medicine, University of Brussels and Head, Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
Patrick Kochanek, MD, Director Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, Professor University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pittsburgh, PA

Description
A new multimedia e-dition package includes the book and CD-ROM plus access to the continuously updated website! The website (http://www.criticalcaretext.com) also offers links to important websites, calculators, the full text online, and all the illustrations--downloadable for presentations. A completely new editorial team presents the radical revision to this leading critical care text, previously edited by Shoemaker et al. Today's best coverage of both adult and pediatric critical care, with contributions from an impressive roster of world experts. In addition to numerous new chapters and many extensively rewritten ones, it features a completely new section on commonly encountered problems and a new, more user-friendly organization.