Steven E. Lucking is Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at the Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital in Hershey, PA. He has special interests in brain injury, shock, bronchoscopy, outcomes evaluation and research.

Frank A. Maffei is Professor of Pediatrics at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. He is the Chair of Pediatrics and Division Chief of Pediatric Critical Care at Geisinger's Janet Weis Children's Hospital in Danville, PA. His special interests include life-threatening asthma, hemodynamic monitoring, shock, traumatic brain injury and child abuse.

Robert F. Tamburro is Professor of Pediatrics at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. He is an Intensivist in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care and the Division Chief of Pediatric Palliative Care at Geisinger's Janet Weis Children's Hospital in Danville, PA. He has special interests in oncologic critical care, clinical research, care of the medically complex child and pediatric palliative care.

Arno L. Zaritsky is Professor of Pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School. He was the Senior Vice President for Clinical Services at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters in Norfolk, VA. He has special interests in resuscitation, sepsis, patient safety and quality improvement.

True current compendium of all that is needed to know in pediatric critical care

Clear and concise presentation of key clinical information

Of use to all staff within the pediatric critical care unit

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.