Amazon.com description: Product Description: This comprehensive, multidisciplinary, clinically oriented text has been thoroughly updated and extensively revised to provide state-of-the-art knowledge of adult critical care. The editors and contributors, leading authorities in the fields of surgery, anesthesiology and internal medicine, bring the reader detailed discussions of some of the newest and most important topics in critical care today. The book features a unique format that provides both the convenience of a quick reference and the comprehensiveness of a major resource.