Intensive Care Medicine

A Wikibook on Intensive Care Medicine 1 Jan 05, 2016 thumb|Hard cover Table of contents Help for authors Page currently under active development: New Sepsis definitions Volunteer Editors: Welcome! Intensive and Critical Care Medicine is a distinct branch of medicine specifically organized for the management of patients with immediate life-threatening pathophysiological conditions. It requires the grouping of special facilities and specially trained staff in pursuit of this aim. The terms Intensive Care Medicine and Critical Care Medicine are considered synonymous.http://www.world-critical-care.org/images/constitutionSEOULfinal.pdf This is a wiki project - an open source, free access reference book. Anyone is welcome and encouraged to contribute anytime, anything (as long as it relates to Intensive Care Medicine). Feel free to edit it, update it, correct it, and otherwise increase its teaching potential. We appreciate both small contributions (correcting typos, grammar etc.) as well as contributions to content. If there are subjects missing outright, please feel free to start them. For comments, please use the "discussion" tab on top of each page. (This paragraph was adapted from the cover page of Radiation Oncology). Disclaimer: Intensive and Critical care Medicine I 0%