Critical care helps people with life-threatening injuries and illnesses. It might treat problems such as complications from surgery, accidents, infections, and severe breathing problems, and involves close, constant attention by a team of specially-trained health care providers. Critical care usually takes place in an intensive care unit (ICU) or trauma centre (MedlinePlus).

The new edition of this book presents the latest advances in the provision of critical care.

Beginning with an introduction to intensive care, resuscitation, monitoring procedures and imaging, the following sections discuss critical care for clinical shock syndromes, and for cardiovascular problems.

The fourth edition has been fully revised and new topics added, bringing clinicians and trainees up to date with recent technologies and techniques in their field.

Images, diagrams and tables further enhance the comprehensive text.

The previous edition (9789351522355) published in 2014.