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Edited by Michael R. Pinsky and Jean-Francois Dhainaut. 975 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1993. $115. ISBN 0-683-06888-1.

This book on critical care medicine is approximately half the size of some other recently published works on the topic. It does not provide an encyclopedic listing of disease states, treatments, or procedures. The intent of the editors is revealed in their title and stated in their preface: "We did not wish to catalog disease processes and therapies, but to describe the pathophysiological processes that underlie these disease states and the principles of management that reflect an understanding of these processes." Did the editors succeed in their intent? Yes and no.

The book is divided into sections according to organ . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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