Critical care is a fairly modern specialty which gained prominence only recently infact the first fellowship in critical care was established as recently as 1962 in the university of pittsburgh many surgical specialties which require critical care developed much before the development of critical care as a subspecialty. With a full color design and concise easy to read chapters critical care medicine the essentials and a bit more covers the core elements of critical care with a unique focus on the pathophysiology underlying clinical disorders and how pathophysiologic concerns affect treatment options there is much here thats new brand new content expanded discussions and more graphical elements . The essentials of critical care medicine is a single authored text targeted for physicians training in the field of critical care medicine especially for physicians with an internal medicine background the book is not primarily designed as a study guide but more as a practical guide to that end the author has written a succinct text to meet the needs of physicians studying for their . The critical care medicine the essentials was chosen for the library as it fulfills our education requirements very satisfactorily the discussions of airway and ventilation are excellent the acid base and electrolytes chapters are well discussed and include common management errors to avoid