Intensive Care: Clinical Principles and Practice

Intensive care is the care of extremely ill patients who are struggling with severe and life-threatening illnesses. Such patients require constant attention, proper care, support from special equipments, and medications to be able to perform normal bodily functions. Trauma, sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and multiple organ failure are some of the common medical conditions which are treated in an intensive care unit. Analgesics, medically induced comas and induced sedatio...