This extensively updated textbook is a comprehensive study guide that covers pediatric critical care principles and specific disease entities commonly encountered by the pediatric critical care medicine (PCCM) practitioner. Pathophysiologic aspects unique to the pediatric patient are emphasized. The first edition has become a highly utilized text for pediatric critical care fellows. The second edition will prove even more valuable to the fellow in-training and indeed to any clinical pediatric intensivist. In addition to updating the chapters from the previous edition, there are new chapters on topics such as central nervous structure and function, palliative care, child abuse and practical biostatistics. 

Pediatric Critical Care: Text and Study Guide is an invaluable clinically focused resource for PCCM practitioners.  Allowing for concise reading on specific topics, this book acts as both text and study guide covering advanced physiology, pathophysiology, diagnostic considerations and treatment approaches that should be mastered by the higher level PCCM practitioner.

The large number of illustrations complements the text in each chapter that also includes key references and case-orientated questions that help reinforce important ideas learned in the chapter.

Part I: Essential Physiologic Principles

Genomics and Genetic Predisposition to Critical Illness in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Oxygen Delivery and Oxygen Consumption in Pediatric Critical Care
Endothelial Interactions and Coagulation
The Inflammatory Response
Nutrition in Critical Illness
Pharmacology
Part II: Respiratory
Pulmonary Structure and Function
Fundamentals of Gas Exchange and the Assessment of Oxygenation and Ventilation
Upper Airway Obstruction
Severe Asthma
Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Conventional Mechanical Ventilation
Non-conventional Mechanical Ventilation
Part III: Cardiovascular
Hemodynamics
Regional Circulations
Assessment of Cardiovascular Function
Circulatory Failure/Shock
Disorders of Cardiac Rhythm
Postoperative Cardiac Care
Cardiovascular Agents
Mechanical and Electrical Myocardial Support
Part IV: Central and Peripheral Nervous System
Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems:  Development, Structure and Function
Physiology of Skeletal Muscle and the Neuromuscular Junction
Assessment of Neurologic Function
Cerebral Resuscitation and Traumatic and Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury
Neurological Diseases in Pediatric Critical Care
Sedation and Analgesia
Neuromuscular Blockade
Part V: Renal and Electrolyte
Overview, Structure and Function of the Nephron
Fluid/Electrolyte/Acid-Base Abnormalities
Acute Kidney Injury
Renal Replacement Therapies
Part VI: Infectious Disease
Acute Pulmonary Infections
Sepsis
Overwhelming Infections in Pediatric Critical Care
Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
Healthcare-Associated Infections
Part VII: Hematology
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
Oncological Critical Care: Considerations in Children
Care of the Critically Ill Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Patient
Transfusion Medicine
Part VIII: Gastrointestinal
Acute Liver Injury and Failure in Children
Part IX: Endocrine and Metabolic
Critical Care Endocrinology
Metabolic Crises
Part X: Special Topics and Populations
Trauma/Burn
Toxicology for the Pediatric Intensivist
The Approach to the Critically Ill Infant
Child Abuse
Palliative Care in Pediatric Critical Care
Outcome Based Clinical Decision-Making in Pediatric Critical Illness
Biostatistics and Evaluating Published Studies.<br>