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,... read more

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

Hurt: The Inspiring, Untold Story of Trauma Care

Told through the eyes of a surgeon who has flown on rescue helicopters, resuscitated patients in trauma centers in Houston and Chicago, and operated on hundreds of trauma victims of all ages, Hurt takes us on a tour of the... read more

Hurt: The Inspiring, Untold Story of Trauma Care

Case Files Emergency Medicine, Fourth Edition

Experience with clinical cases is key to mastering the art and science of medicine and ultimately to providing patients with competent medical care. Case Files: Emergency Medicine, Fourth Edition delivers 59 true-to-life... read more

Case Files Emergency Medicine, Fourth Edition

Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine

American College of Emergency Physicians regularly publishes Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine to keep emergency medicine professionals up to date on relevant clinical issues. Build your clinical arsenal with Critical... read more

Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine

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... read more

Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

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... read more

Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years

Harrison’s Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Featuring a superb compilation of chapters related to pulmonary and critical care topics, this concise, full-color clinical companion delivers the latest knowledge in the field backed by the scientific rigor and authority... read more

Harrison’s Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Advanced Perioperative Crisis Management

Advanced Perioperative Crisis Management is an ideal resource for trainees, clinicians, and nurses who work in the perioperative arena, from the operating room to the postoperative surgical ward. Advanced Perioperative Crisis... read more

Advanced Perioperative Crisis Management

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... read more

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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... read more

The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician’s First Year

Mechanical Ventilation: Physiological and Clinical Applications

Known for its simple explanations and in-depth coverage of patient-ventilator management, this evidence-based text walks readers through the most fundamental and advanced concepts surrounding mechanical ventilation and guides... read more

Mechanical Ventilation: Physiological and Clinical Applications

Trauma Room Two

In every hospital emergency department there is a room reserved for trauma. It is a place where life and death are separated by the thinnest of margins. A place where some families celebrate the most improbable of victories... read more

Trauma Room Two

The Encore: A Memoir in Three Acts

The remarkable true story of acclaimed opera singer Charity Tillemann-Dick, who received not one but two double lung transplants and went from struggling to draw a single breath to singing at the most prestigious venues in... read more

The Encore: A Memoir in Three Acts

Severe Sepsis Care in the Emergency Department

Drs. John C. Perkins and Michael E. Winters have assembled an expert team of authors on the topic of Sepsis in the Emergency Department. Article topics include: Defining and Diagnosing Sepsis; Appropriate Antibiotic Therapy;... read more

Severe Sepsis Care in the Emergency Department

Atlas of Interventional Pain Management

Arranged by anatomic region, Atlas of Interventional Pain Management provides pain medicine specialists in practice and in training with the most up-to-date and practical guide to over 160 interventional pain management techniques.... read more

Atlas of Interventional Pain Management

Fluid, Electrolyte and Acid-Base Physiology

With a strong focus on problem solving and clinical decision making, Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Physiology is your comprehensive, go-to guide on the diagnosis and management of fluid, electrolytes, and acid-base disorders.... read more

Fluid, Electrolyte and Acid-Base Physiology

I Wasn’t Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse

This collection of true narratives reflects the dynamism and diversity of nurses, who provide the first vital line of patient care. Here, nurses remember their first “sticks,” first births, and first deaths, and reflect... read more

I Wasn’t Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse

ECMO, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Mechanical Circulartory Support. Editors Nitin Puri and Michael Baram have assembled an expert team of authors on topics such as: History of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation... read more

ECMO, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

In our current medical culture, the old and the ill are put on what she terms the End-of-Life Conveyor belt. They are intubated, catheterized, and even shelved away in care facilities to suffer their final days alone, confused,... read more

Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

Concise Review of Critical Care, Trauma and Emergency Medicine

A Quick Reference Guide of ICU and Er Topics. Most commonly encountered clinical scenarios and relevant topics are summarized in an easy to understand format. Can be used as quick reference guide during rounds, or during... read more

Concise Review of Critical Care, Trauma and Emergency Medicine

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since... read more

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics

Formerly Clinical Pharmacokinetics: Concepts and Applications, this fully updated Fourth Edition has been retitled Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics: Concepts and Applications to reflect the increasing body of... read more

Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics