Science and Practice of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-10

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2. Development of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine—How Did We Get Here and Why?

   • John J. Downes

   Pages 1-28

3. Epidemiology of Critical Illness

   • R. Scott Watson, Mary E. Hartman

   Pages 1-5

4. Ethics in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

   • K. Sarah Hoehn, Robert M. Nelson

   Pages 1-7

5. The Patient’s Family in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

   • Sol J. Goldstein, I. David Todres

   Pages 1-8

6. Scoring Systems in Critical Care

   • Thomas J. Cholis III, Murray M. Pollack

   Pages 1-4

7. Outcomes and Quality Definitions Assessment and Analysis

   • Susan L. Bratton, James P. Marcin

   Pages 1-8

8. Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Administration

   • Lorry R. Frankel

   Pages 1-5

9. Nursing Care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

   • Franco A. Carnevale

   Pages 1-4

10. The Physician–Scientist in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

    • Thomas P. Shanley

    Pages 1-5

11. Resident and Nurse Education in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

    • Girish G. Deshpande, Gwen Lombard, Adalberto Torres Jr.

    Pages 1-5

12. Evidence-Based Medicine in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

    • Adrienne G. Randolph

    Pages 1-6

13. Patient Safety in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

    • David C. Stockwell, Anthony D. Slonim

    Pages 1-6

14. Pediatric Critical Care in Developing Countries

    • Gregory L. Stidham, William M. Novick

    Pages 1-8

15. The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the Future:Technological Advances in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

    • Kenneth Tegtmeyer

    Pages 1-7

16. Molecular Biology in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

    • Lesley A. Doughty

    Pages 1-23

17. Genetic Polymorphisms in Critical Care and Illness

    • Mary K. Dahmer, Michael W. Quasney

    Pages 1-16

18. Signal Transduction Pathways in Critical Illness and Injury

    • Timothy T. Cornell, Thomas P. Shanley

    Pages 1-9

19. Proinflammatory and Antiinflammatory Mediators in Critical Illness

    • Daniel G. Remick

    Pages 1-7

20. Endogenous Cytoprotective Mechanisms

    • Hector R. Wong

    Pages 1-9

The ? eld of critical care medicine is in the midst of a dramatic change. Technological and s- enti? c advances during the last decade have resulted in a fundamental change in the way we view disease processes, such as sepsis, shock, acute lung injury, and traumatic brain injury. Pediatric intensivists have been both witness to and active participants in bringing about these changes. As the understanding of the pathogenesis of these diseases reaches the cellular and molecular levels, the gap between critical care medicine and molecular biology will disappear. It is imperative that all physicians caring for critically ill children in this new era have a th- ough understanding of the applicability of molecular biology to the care of these patients at the bedside in order to keep up with the rapidly evolving ? eld of critical care medicine. To the same extent, the practice of critical care medicine is in the midst of fundamental change. In keeping with the Institute of Medicine’s report “Crossing the Quality Chasm,” the care of critically ill and injured children needs to be safe, evidence-based, equitable, ef? cient, timely, and fami- centered [1,2]. In the following pages, these changes in our specialty are discussed in greater scope and detail, offering the reader fresh insight into not only where we came from, but also where we are going as a specialty.

• care
• critical care
• epidemiology
• ethics
• intensive care
• intensive care medicine
• intensive care unit

From the reviews:

"Evolution of pediatric critical care programs and outcome issues are emphasized in this softcover book. Fellows and/or practitioners treating pediatric critical illness are an appropriate audience for this work. … This is a good read on the history and biology of the field." (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, February, 2009)

• Medical Center, Div. of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, U.S.A.

  Derek S. Wheeler, Hector R. Wong

• C.S. Mott Children's Hospital , Pediatric Critical Care Medicine , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A.

  Thomas P. Shanley

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