Saunders Manual of Critical Care

Book excerpt: Intended for intensivists and other acute care practitioners, including medical subspecialists, surgeons, and emergency medicine physicians, this manual provides a rapid review of common as well as infrequently encountered disorders, offering diagnostic tips and a step-by-step approach to therapy. Early sections cover management approaches for common physiologic derangements seen in critically ill patients. The main section contains 146 disease-oriented chapters grouped by organ system or discipline, covering common and uncommon diseases, syndromes, and disturbances of homeostasis from the perspective of the ICU setting. These chapters provide concise information on etiology, differential diagnosis, clinical manifestations, lab findings, diagnostic methods, and therapeutic approaches. Other sections deal with trauma and postoperative topics, monitoring, and critical pharmacology. Kruse teaches medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR