Principles of Adult Surgical Critical Care

The second edition of this text provides an expanded and comprehensive exploration of adult surgical critical care relevant for resource-replete and resource-constrained acute care settings.It can be used to review complex critical illness or injury topics in surgical patients, as a reference tool, a resource for board examination preparation, or as a guide for program development.Focused on the surgical patient, this text leverages a structured approach that includes key points, evidence-based management, and critical care principles underpinned by new knowledge discovery.Each chapter identifies controversies as well as adaptations for resource-constrained settings, and the international authorship underscores the global applicability of this work. Novel topics for the second edition include caring for the neurodiverse patient, the role of disordered lymphatic flow, deresuscitation, vascular pathologies, management of complex intra-abdominal surgery patients, the role of the microbiom