As with anything in medical field, there are so many resources that it is difficult and time consuming to determine which ones are the most valuable and worth reading.

Therefore, we decided to compile a list of the Best Critical Care books any intensivist should consider.

Here is a compilation of best sellers and few hidden gems that are trending in the healthcare industry now.

Evidence-Based Practice of Critical Care

Objective data and expert guidance on managing critically ill patients in unique question-based chapters that focus on best practices. Now thoroughly updated by Drs. Clifford S. Deutschman, Patrick J. Neligan, and nearly...
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Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through the eyes of its longtime Director of Intensive Care, Dr. Cory Franklin. Readers will be riveted by stories of strange medical...
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MRSA Protocols – Methods in Molecular Biology

Presenting the most up-to-date techniques for the detection, genotyping, and investigation of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), this second edition of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Protocols collects...
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When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia,...
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. Nursing homes, devoted above all to safety, battle with residents over the food they...
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Kill as Few Patients as Possible

This oft-quoted all-time favorite of the medical community will gladden - and strengthen - the hearts of patients, doctors, and anyone entering medical study, internship, or practice. With unassailable logic and rapier...
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The 2018-2023 World Outlook for Sepsis Drugs

This study covers the world outlook for sepsis drugs across more than 190 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question...
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe. In the aftermath...
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Bacterial Profile of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia: Concept, Review, Methods, Observations, Inference

ICU is a hotbed of infections and measures are taken to prevent these infections. Ventilator associated pneumonia is one of the Intensive Care Unit related infections. This book tells us what ventilator associated pneumonia...
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years

This story of Collins' four-year surgical residency traces his rise from an eager but clueless first-year resident to accomplished Chief Resident in his final year. With unparalleled humor, he recounts the disparity between...
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Avoiding Common ICU Errors

This pocket book succinctly describes 318 errors commonly made by attendings, residents, interns, nurses, and nurse-anesthetists in the intensive care unit, and gives practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding these errors....
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The Point of Care Ultrasound Handbook

This NEW book is meant to be a reference for both the new and experienced point of care sonographer; to be a pocket guide to carry with you during your shift. We have included our best tips, tricks and any additional information...
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The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician’s First Year

In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor—the sort of mythical, unflappable physician who could reach unreachable patients. But when a new admission to the critical care unit almost died...
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Emergency & Critical Care Pocket Guide

The most popular pocket reference in emergency nursing - now in a new edition! The Emergency amp; Critical Care Pocket Guide has been an essential resource for physicians, paramedics, and nurses for over a decade. The...
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Case Studies in Adult Intensive Care Medicine

Guiding FFICM and EDIC exam candidates through the intensive care medicine curriculum, this book provides 48 case studies mapped to eight key areas of study in the UK and European syllabuses. Cases include clinical vignettes,...
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Manual of ICU Procedures

Manual of ICU Procedures is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to intensive care procedures. The book is divided into four anatomical sections, and a final miscellaneous section. Section one covers airway and respiratory,...
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

With astonishing compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets and the moments of black humor that...
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Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science

Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr. Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is essential reading for anyone involved in medicine - on either end of the stethoscope. Medical...
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Confessions of a Surgeon

Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated... Life Behind the O.R. Doors. As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession....
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How Doctors Think

On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are...
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