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Edited by Peter R. Holbrook. 1228 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1993. $145. ISBN 0-7216-2352-2.

In selecting a textbook, there are at least four questions we may consider: Is it the standard work in the field? Is it timely? What are the qualifications of the authors? How is the material presented? Although it may be unfair to compare a 1200-page book with a two-volume work of 1600 pages, anyone looking to purchase Holbrook's Textbook of Pediatric Critical Care would inevitably compare it with the 1992 edition of Rogers's Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins). Such comparison is useful and will bring us to the conclusion that no one textbook can be all . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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