Month: November 2014

Editors: Joseph E. Parrillo, MD; and R. Phillip Dellinger, MD Publisher: Elsevier Saunders – 1,490 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Critical Care Medicine is a field within medicine, applying particularly to adults, which has grown very rapidly in the last 40 years, Drs. Parrillo and Dellinger point out. It grew from knowledge acquired and experience gained by doctors treating patients in the postoperative recovery room, in the coronary care unit, and in the modern intensive care unit, or ICU. All of that specialized data, expertise, and insight gained by physicians and surgeons from treatment of critically ill patients...

Editors: Terry Mahan Buttaro, PhD; JoAnn Trybulski, PhD; Patricia Polgar Bailey, MS; and Joanne Sandberg-Cook, MS Publisher: Elsevier-Mosby – 1,396 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The importance of collaboration among health care professionals and the value of research and evidence are the core bases of this volume on primary care, the editors point out in their Preface to this book. They acknowledge that there are many challenges the primary care physician faces in today’s health care system that is in a state of constant flux. They emphasize the benefits that accrue to all, from group support. The treatment...