PEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE. VOLUME 4: PERI-OPERATIVE CARE OF THE CRITICALLY ILL OR INJURED CHILD. 2ND EDITION

1. Preparing the Critically Ill or Injured Child for Surgery
2. Pharmacology of Inhalational and Intravenous Anesthetic Agents
3. Sedation and Analgesia
4. Tolerance, Physical Dependency, and Withdrawal
5. Neuromuscular Blockade
6. Procedural Sedation and Anesthesia in the PICU
7. Blood Conservation in the Perioperative Setting
8. Malignant Hyperthermia
9. Peri-operative Care of the General Pediatric Surgical Patient
10. Perioperative Care of the Pediatric Neurosurgical Patient
11. Perioperative Care of the Urology Patient
12. Perioperative Care of the Orthopaedic Surgery Patient
13. Peri-operative Care of the ENT Patient
14. Head and Neck Trauma
15. Craniofacial Trauma
16. Thoracic Trauma
17. Abdominal Trauma
18. Genitourinary Trauma
19. Pediatric Orthopaedic Trauma
20. Pediatric Burns
21. The Systemic Inflammatory Response to Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Pathophysiology and Treatment
22. Myocardial Protection
23. Surgical Interventions for Congenital Heart Disease
24. Palliative Procedures
25. Peri-operative Care of the Child with Congenital Heart Disease
26. Pharmacology of Immunosuppression
27. Heart Transplantation
28. Pediatric Lung Transplantation
29. Pediatric Liver Transplantation
30. Intestinal/Multivisceral Transplantation
31. Kidney Transplantation

The second edition of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine spans three volumes, with major sections dedicated to specific organ systems. Each major section consists of separate chapters dedicated to reviewing the specific disease processes affecting each organ system. Each chapter concludes with a comprehensive list of references, with brief, concise remarks denoting references of ‘special interest’ and ‘of interest’. Consequently, the books are unique in their comprehensive coverage of pediatric critical care and their ease of use and will be of value to those studying towards pediatric critical care examinations and those who are already qualified.

Features
• A new edition of the most comprehensive textbook of pediatric critical care medicine
• First ostensibly evidence-based pediatric critical care textbook
• Relevant for those studying towards pediatric critical care examinations and those who are already qualified

Authors
• Derek S. Wheeler, MD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He is the Associate Medical Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, as well as an attending physician in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He has published extensively in pediatric critical care medicine and has contributed to numerous textbooks in the past.
• Hector R. Wong, MD is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Director of the Division of Critical Care Medicine at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati. He is on the editorial board of the journal, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and has edited one book (with Dr Thomas Shanley) for KAP on the Molecular Biology of Acute Lung Injury, while contributing to numerous books, journals and supplements.
• Thomas P. Shanley, MD is the Ferrantino Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases at the University of Michigan Medical Center. Dr Shanley is the Director of the Division of Critical Care Medicine, as well as the Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. He has published extensively in pediatric critical care medicine and has previously edited one book (with Dr Wong) for KAP on the Molecular Biology of Acute Lung Injury.