Product Description The book discusses various aspects of critical care medicine, including the philosophy and ethics of critical care, imaging techniques, the clinical presentation, basic physiopathology and management of life-threatening illnesses involving various organ systems of the body, It also deals with critical care in trauma, following open heart surgery, and in poisonings. The critical care of fulminant tropical infections, particularly when complicated by multiple organ dysfunction has been of special interest. About the Author Farokh Erach Udwadia is at Breach Candy Hospital and Parsee General Hospital, Bombay.