This best-selling volume in The Secrets Series® is back in an exciting, fully updated 4th Edition! You’ll find all of the features you rely on the Secrets for―such as a question-and-answer format • bulleted lists • mnemonics • “Key Points” boxes • and tips from the authors.

• Equips you with the evidence-based guidance you need to provide optima care for the critically ill.
• Expedites reference and review with a question-and-answer format, bulleted lists, mnemonics, and practical tips from the authors.
• Features a two-color page layout, "Key Points" boxes, and lists of useful web sites to enhance your reference power.
• Presents a chapter containing "Top Secrets", providing you with an overview of essential material for last-minute study or self-assessment

• Provides coverage of the principles of gas and fluid flow • pulmonary mechanics • and electronic circuitry.
  
• Discusses protocols and guidelines.
  
• Offers effective solutions to patients’ medical and ethical problems from a wide range of specialists such as pulmonologists
  • surgeons • anesthesiologists • psychiatrists • pharmacists • and infectious disease experts.