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The latest edition of 'critical care update' Is a comprehensive compilation of updates in the field of critical care. Divided into 13 sections having 101 chapters. Includes carefully selected articles written by leading experts in the field of critical care from India and overseas. Presented in a reader friendly format for easy understanding. Includes articles devoted to quality and organizational aspects of critical care and addresses issues pertaining to resource limited setting. Covers the legal aspects of end of life care written by two National experts in the field.  Enriched with easy to remember tables, figures and flowcharts.

Contents: I. Hemodynamic Monitoring and Resuscitation: 1. Balanced Crystalloid Use in ICU: Current Status/Rajesh Pande, Abhishek Vishnu and Maitree Pandey. 2. Saline Resuscitation: Does the Dose Matter?/Sameer Jog, Shruthi Kamble and Prasanna Marudwar. 3. Negative Fluid Balance: Beneficial or Harmful?/Binila Chacko and John Victor Peter. 4. Angiotensin II: The New Vasopressor/Yatin Mehta and Aashish Jain. 5. Inotropes in Septic Shock: Which One and When?/Subhal Bhalchandra Dixit and Khalid Ismail Khatib. 6. Integrating Hemodynamic Variables at the Bedside/Avadhesh Pratap and Palepu B Gopa. 7. Using the Ventilator to Determine Fluid Responsiveness/Sheila Nainan Myatra. 8. The Gray Zone of Fluid Responsiveness/Ashit Hegde. 9. Are Static Measures Still Useful?/Sunil Karanth. 10. Should We Target SBP/DBP/MAP in Shock?/Srinivas Samavedam, Ganshyam M Jagthkar and Narmada Aluru. 11. Weaning-induced Cardiac Dysfunction/Sushma Gurav. 12. Critical Appraisal of Surviving Sepsis Guidelines on Hemodynamic Resuscitation/Jean-Louis Teboul. 13. Mini-fluid Challenge/JV Divatia. 14. Monitoring the Quality of Cardiopulmonary esuscitation/Prasad Rajhans and Gouri Ranade. 15. Postcardiac Arrest Care in ICU/Javier D Finkielman and Janice L Zimmerman. II. Respiratory/Airway/Ventilation: 16. Tracheostomy Care in ICU/Manish Munjal, Samaresh Das and Amit Omprakash Sharma. 17. Airway Management in ICU: Current Guidelines/Pradip K Bhattacharya, Lata Bhattacharya and Nimita Deora. 18. Recruitment Maneuver in ICU: Is it Out?/Rajesh Chawla, Aakanksha Chawla and Roseleen Kaur Bali. 19. Mechanical Ventilatory Support in Failing Heart/Mohit Mathur and Yash Javeri. 20. Lessons Learnt from Lung Safe Study/Ajeet Singh, Shrikanth Srinivasan and Rishab Kumar. 21. Lung Protective Ventilation: Not So Protective/Sachin Gupta and Deeksha Singh Tomar. 22. Positive End-expiratory Pressure Titration: Current Status/Yash Javeri, Bharat G Jagiasi and Gunjan P Chanchalani. 23. Spontaneous or Assisted Breathing on Mechanical Ventilation: Which Way to Go?/Dhruva Chaudhry and Mansi Gupta. 24. Noninvasive Ventilation-induced Acute Lung Injury/Supradip Ghosh. 25. Ventilation-induced Lung Injury: Ergotrauma/Suresh Ramasubban. 26. Apneic Oxygenation/Khusrav Bajan. 27. CAP, HAP, HCAP and VAP: How Should Intensivists Approach this Alphabet Soup?/Marin H Kollef. 28. Adverse Effects of Oxygen Therapy in ICU/Deepak Govil, Mozammil Shafi and Sweta J Patel. 29. Venous Thromboembolism in Critically Ill Patients: Risk Stratification and Prevention/Hasan M Al-Dorzi, Yaseen M Arabi. 30. Mean Systemic Filling Pressure: Physiology and Applicability/Mohit Kharbanda. III. Infection/Antibiotic/Sepsis/Infection Control: 31. Colistin Resistance: A Growing Threat/Vasant C Nagvekar, Tulsi Modi, Shalini Singh. 32. When to Suspect and How to Detect Carbapenemase Production? A Review/Sanjay Bhattacharya, Surojit Das, Kingshuk Dharand Arup Roy. 33. Antibiotic within One Hour: Is it for Everyone?/Martin Jose Thomasand Vandana Agarwal...IV. Quality/Ethics/Organization/ICU Research. V. Neurology. VI. Nephrology/Dialysis/Electrolytes. VII. rauma/Perioperative/Toxicology/Burns. VIII. Gastroenterology/Pancreas/Nutrition/Hepatology. IX.Hematology/Oncology/Obstetrics/Pharmacology. X. Endocrine/Metabolic/Glucose Control. XI. Transplant/Extracorporeal Support/Imaging. XII. Pediatrics. XIII. Insights into Sepsis.