The Intensive Care Unit Manual, 2nd Edition

• Grasp the latest developments in critical care with extensive updates and revisions to several key chapters, as well as brand-new chapters on Alcohol Withdrawal Syndromes; Acute Heart Failure Syndromes; Noninvasive Ventilation; and more ICU conditions.
• Understand and apply the most important ICU practices, including management of acute respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation, invasive hemodynamic monitoring, and the care of patients with special needs, AIDS, end-stage renal disease, or end-stage liver disease.
• Get convenient access to the full text and image library online at Expert Consult, in addition to online-only text, figures, and tables from the Alcohol Withdrawal Syndromes and Acute Heart Failure Syndromes chapters.

• Stay at the forefront of critical care with a practice-oriented, relevant, and well-illustrated account of the pathophysiology of critical disease, presented in a highly readable format.
• Gain valuable insight into the recognition, evaluation, and management of critical conditions such as respiratory, hemodynamic, and infectious diseases; management of ICU patients with special clinical conditions; cardiovascular, hematologic, and neurological disorders; poisoning and overdoses; trauma and burns; and much more!

By Paul N. Lanken , MD, Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division, Department of Medicine; Associate Dean for Professionalism and Humanism, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Scott Manaker , MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; Vice Chair, Regulatory Affairs, Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Benjamin A. Kohl , MD, FCCM, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, and Internal Medicine, Chief, Division of Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; C. William Hanson , MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Surgery, and Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Former Medical Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Chief Medical Information Officer and Vice President, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania