We are honored to present the second edition of Surgical Intensive Care Medicine. Our first edition was considered to be an important contribution to the critical care literature and received excellent reviews from Critical Care Medicine, Chest, and Anesthesiology. In the second edition, the basic organization of the book remains unchanged, being composed of 60 carefully selected chapters divided into 11 sections. The book begins with general topics in primary intensive care, such as airway management and vascular cannulation, followed by categories based on medical and surgical subspecialties. While the chapters discuss definitions, pathophysiology, clinical course, complications, and prognosis, the primary emphasis is devoted to patient management. The contents of the current edition have been comprehensively upgraded and the chapters retained from the first edition have been thoroughly updated, revised, or rewritten. In this second edition, some new topics have been added including Postoperative Care of the Obese Patient, Postoperative Care of the Pancreas Transplant Patient, Optimization of High-Risk Surgical Patients, Post- erative Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome, Ethics and End of Life Issues, Improving the ICU, and Continuous Medical Education in Intensive Care Medicine. We are extremely fortunate to have high-quality contributors, many of whom are nationally and internationally recognized researchers, speakers, and practitioners in Cri- cal Care Medicine. An important feature of this latest edition is the geographical diversity of its authors. Most are based in the United States, but colleagues from Canada, England, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, Italy, Portugal, and Australia have also made notable contributions.

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Resuscitation and General Topics.- Supplemental Oxygen Therapy.- Airway Management in the Intensive Care Unit.- Vascular Cannulation.- Fluid Resuscitation.- Vasoactive Amines and Inotropic Agents.- Shock.- Hemodynamic Monitoring.- AcidBase Disorders.- Analgesia and Sedation.- Neuromuscular Blocking Agents.- Optimization of the High-Risk Surgical Patient.- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.- Neurocritical Care.- Management of Closed Head Injury.- Spinal Cord Injuries.- Ischemic Stroke.- Hemorrhagic Stroke.- Status Epilepticus.- Critical Illness Polyneuropathy and Myopathy.- Cardiology.- Management of Hypertension in the Perioperative Period.- Postoperative Myocardial Infarction.- Management of Postoperative Arrhythmias.- Pulmonary Medicine.- Acute Respiratory Failure.- Mechanical Ventilation.- Venous Thromboembolism.- Fat Embolism Syndrome.- Venous Air Embolism.- Infectious Diseases, Sepsis, MODS.- Sepsis.- Vascular Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections.- Pneumonia.- Intra-abdominal Sepsis.- Evaluation of the Febrile Patient in the ICU.- Antimicrobial Use in Surgical Intensive Care.- Hematology.- Coagulation Abnormalities in the Critically Ill.- Blood Products.- Metabolism and Nutrition.- Hyperglycemia in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit.- Adrenal Insufficiency.- Nutrition Support in Intensive Care.- Nephrology and Electrolytes.- Acute Kidney Injury.- Renal Replacement Therapy.- Disorders of Electrolytes.- Gastroenterology.- Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Acute Pancreatitis.- Surgery, Trauma, and Transplantation.- Trauma.- Burns.- The Abdominal Compartment Syndrome.- Rhabdomyolysis.- Postoperative Care of the Cardiac Surgical Patient.- Postoperative Care Following Major Vascular Surgery.- Postoperative Care After Bariatric Surgery.- Care of the Organ Donor.- PostoperativeCare of the Heart Transplant Patient.- Postoperative Care of the Lung-Transplant Patient.- Postoperative Care of the Liver-Transplant Patient.- Postoperative Care of the Pancreas-Transplant Recipient.- Additional Topics.- Management of the Critically Ill Geriatric Patient.- Alcohol Withdrawal in the Surgical Patient: Prevention and Treatment.- Ethics and the End-of-Life Care.- Scoring Systems and Outcome Prediction.- Improving the Intensive Care Unit.- Continuing Education in Critical Care Medicine.- Erratum to: Surgical Intensive Care Medicine, Second Edition.