Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Critical Care delivers authoritative and clinically focused guidance in a concise and easy-to-use format. This e-book includes a review of the etiology, relevant pathophysiology and clinical symptoms as a prelude to diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients. Coverage includes everything from renal failure and surgical infections to coronary heart disease with an emphasis on evidence-based medicine throughout. Also features new treatment strategies for venous thromboembolism, acute respiratory distress syndromeand diabetic ketoacidosis as well as valuable perspectives on the latest technologies, equipment, therapeutic strategies and interventions in the critical care setting.

Frederic S. Bongard, MD
Professor of Surgery
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine
Chief, Division of Trauma and Critical Care
Director of Surgical Education
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, California

Darryl Y. Sue, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine
Director, Medical-Respiratory Intensive Care Unit,
Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine
Associate Chair, Department of Medicine
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, California