Manual of Pediatric Intensive Care

This is a guide to care of patients in the Paediatric ICU. The fundamentals come first: sepsis, managing fluids and electrolytes, maintaining the airway and assessment of cardiovascular performance. After this, problems are organized by system: neurology, endocrine disorders, and the acute abdomen are a few of the topics covered. Trauma has a separate section, covering injuries to major body systems and injuries caused by burns, accidents, frostbite, lightning strikes and other events. Following this, the manual has a section on procedures, such as chest tube insertion and subdural taps; a pharmacopoeia, detailing the critical dosing numbers needed for safe, effective therapy; and a section with algorithms, including decision trees from the American Heart Association.