Description: "Surgical Intensive Care Medicine" has been specificallydesigned to be a practical reference for medical students, physicians-in-training, intensive care nurses and all others involvedin the daily care of the critically ill surgical patient. It shouldalso serve as a concentrated review for the trained critical carespecialist. Fifty-five chapters are assembled in this work in order tosuccinctly cover pertinent areas of surgical critical care medicine.They include an up-to-date review of the pathophysiology, diagnosisand management, citing the most recent references in medicalliterature.The structure of this textbook is based on the old adage, "you'vegotta learn to walk before you can run." The first section is titled"Resuscitation" and exposes the reader to a condensed version ofgeneric topics in primary intensive care medicine. The followingsections have been categorized according to medical and surgicalsubspecialties and cover the most germane of problems encountered in atertiary surgical intensive care unit.Sections of certain chapters, while repetitive, have been left intactin an attempt to maintain the authors' messages and provide the readerwith some contradictory but referenced views. The technical chaptersdescribe a very introductory approach to various exercises such asairway management and vascular cannulation. It is the opinion of theeditors that written or spoken instruction can never replace personalobservation and supervised "hands-on" experience when learning toperform procedures. Organizational, financial and ethical dilemmassurrounding intensive care medicine are of enormous proportions andspace constraints make it impossible to introduce the young reader tothecomplexity of the issues at hand. Readers are referred to thenumerous textbooks on these subjects.It is the sincere hope of the editors that this publication willprovide physicians, medical students, nurses and paramedical personnelw

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