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By Robert H. Bartlett. 238 pp. Boston, Little, Brown, 1996. $59.95. ISBN 0-316-08269-4.

In Critical Care Physiology, Dr. Bartlett intends to present a common-sense, pragmatic approach to the bedside care of the critically ill or injured patient, with a focus on multiorgan interactions. Although most of the basic physiologic descriptions are well done, for many areas they are missing (as for prerenal failure and obstructive renal failure), oversimplified, or dogmatic. To the seasoned clinician dogmatic statements may be obvious, but to house officers such statements can be dangerous. The book has many tables, figures, and treatment algorithms, but they too represent the author's dogma and may be contrary to convention (such as the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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