Comprehensive and clinically oriented, this new text helps you provide the highest standard of care for patients in the ICU—in one full-color volume. An international cast of experts offers in-depth, authoritative guidance on clinical problems from a multitude of perspectives. Inside, you'll find a user-friendly format with a consistent organization from chapter to chapter for easy reference, and a bonus CD-ROM containing all of the illustrations from the text for use in PowerPoint slide presentations. * Offers you the insights and benefits of critical care research being performed outside the U.S. * Combines practical, clinical guidance with the basic science necessary to effectively treat and manage critical care patients. * Emphasizes the practice of critical care, including general organ system monitoring and support. * Covers the wide range of diseases, disorders, and trauma encountered in the ICU. * Discusses everything from biologic response to stress to mechanical ventilation to problems associated with infectious diseases. * Includes detailed discussions on the hottest topics in the field, including mechanical ventilation * assessment for weaning * pregnancy-related critical care * and bioterrorism and unusual critical care medicine conditions. * Uses over 600 full-color illustrations that explain every detail.