Publisher's Synopsis
Provides basic technical skills needed to solve the common problems confronted in any intensive care unit. Offering a problem-solving approach, the focus is on the fundamental principles generic to all intensive care functions and on the actual approach to patient-care in the ICU.;Clinical information is provided on the techniques, calculations, treatments, indications, drug dosages, and clinical insights that should be valuable to critical care professionals.;This edition include additional chapters on: neurologic crisis; AIDS; myocardial infarction; and postoperative management.