This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Rapid Response Systems and Fluid Resuscitation, with topics including: RRS Now; Triggering Criteria: Big Data; Triggering Criteria: Continuous Monitoring; Measuring instability; Surgery/Trauma RRT; Obstetric RRT; Difficult airway rapid response teams; and Sepsis rapid response teams.

Post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) is increasingly used in forensic pathology practice in many jurisdictions. Such imaging has expanded the capacity to evaluate skeletal trauma improving the visualisation, documentation and presentation of forensic findings. Typically when deceased persons are located and exhibit evidence of trauma, forensic pathologist, anthropologists and radiologists base their interpretations of the mechanism of trauma on their experience and understanding of the biomechanics of fractures as well as recognisable patterns of injury. In order to augment this process, An Atlas of Forensic Skeletal Trauma presents a range of de-identified adult and child skeletal trauma cases that occur in medico-legal contexts where the cause of death and mechanism of trauma are recorded. An Atlas of Forensic Skeletal Trauma includes comprehensive photographs and PMCT images as well as descriptive text.

Aquick reference to clinical information needed in Pediatric Intensive Care Units. The Manual makes extensive use of illustrations tables and boxes and provides up-to-date information on nursing interventions for the critically ill child. It also includes content on psychosocial issues, family needs and PICU instrumentation. Authored by an international expert in pediatric critical care who has incorporated the most up to-date policies, practices, and procedures into the text. Provides manageable summaries so that clinical information needed in PICU's can be quickly referenced. Contains more than 300 illustrations, tables, and boxes to aid in quick referencing of essential critical care information. Provides anatomy and physiology reviews to ensure complete understanding. Contains up-to-date information on nursing interventions that aids in the formulation of appropriate policy and accurate decision-making. Has many updated drug tables for the most current pharmacotherapy interventions. Includes content on psychosocial issues, family needs, and PICU instrumentation to prepare the nurse for the realities of working in a pediatric critical care unit. Features a chapter on burns to assist the pediatric critical care nurse in the care of a child with severe burns. Suggested resource lists provide a practical reference supplement for more detailed conditions.

This issue of Critical Care Clinics, edited by Mervyn singer and Manu Shankar-Hari, includes: Sepsis 3.0 Definitions; Epidemiology and Outcomes; Pathophysiology of sepsis; Pathophysiology of Septic shock; Mechanism of organ dysfunction in sepsis; Endocrine and metabolic alterations in sepsis: challenges and treatments; The immune system in sepsis; Nutrition and Sepsis; Common sense approach to managing sepsis; Biomarkers for sepsis and their use; Personalizing sepsis care; Novel interventions - What's new and the future; and Long term outcomes following Sepsis.

This issue of Cardiology Clinics, edited by Dr. Amal Mattu and Dr. John Field, focuses Emergency Cardiology. Topics include, but are not limited to: Evaluation of Chest Pain and Acute Coronary Syndromes; Evolving Electrocardiographic Indications for Emergent Reperfusion; Cardiac biomarkers in emergency care; Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction; Cardiogenic Shock, Acute Dyspnea and Decompensated Heart Failure; Evolving Strategies for Management of Cardiac Arrest; Multidisciplinary management post-cardiac arrest; Acute Myopericardial Syndromes; Acute Valvular Heart Disease; Ventricular Arrhythmias; Atrial Fibrillation, A New Face of Cardiac Emergencies: HIV-Related Cardiac Disease; Cardiovascular Emergencies in Pregnancy, and Blunt Cardiac Trauma.

This issue of Neurologic Clinics, edited by Dr. Alejandro A. Rabinstein, will cover Neurocritical Care. Topics include, but are not limited to: Anoxic Brain Injury; Treatment of Intracranial Hypertension; Management of Traumatic Brain Injury; Cortical Spreading Depression and Ischemia in Neurocritical Patients; Temperature Control in Acute Brain Injury; HSV Encephalitis; Primary Acute Neuromuscular Respiratory Failure; ICU-Acquired Weakness; Emergency and Critical Care Management of Intracerebral Hemorrhage; New developments in Refractory Status Epilepticus; Acute Cardiac Complications in Critical Brain Disease; Nosocomial Infections in Neurocritical Patients; Neurological Complications after Solid Organ Transplantation; and Shared Decision Making in the NICU.

Advanced Perioperative Crisis Management is a high-yield, clinically-relevant resource for understanding the epidemiology, pathophysiology, assessment, and management of a wide variety of perioperative emergencies. Three introductory chapters review a critical thinking approach to the unstable or pulseless patient, crisis resource management principles to improve team performance and the importance of cognitive aids in adhering to guidelines during perioperative crises. The remaining sections cover six major areas of patient instability: cardiac, pulmonary, neurologic, metabolic/endocrine, and toxin-related disorders, and shock states, as well as specific emergencies for obstetrical and pediatric patients. Each chapter opens with a clinical case, followed by a discussion of the relevant evidence. Case-based learning discussion questions, which can be used for self-assessment or in the classroom, round out each chapter. 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.

This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics focuses on Pediatric Emergency Medicine, with topics including: BRUE/ALTE; Pediatric Minor Head Injury; PAIN MANAGEMENT and PAIN ALTERNATIVES; DEHYDRATION - ORT and IVF FLUID SELECTION; PEDIATRIC SYNCOPE - High Risk Conditions and Reasonable Approach; INBORN ERRORS OF METABOLISM IN THE ED; BRONCHIOLITIS - From Guideline to Clinical Practice; PED NON-INVASIVE VENTILATION; PED VENT MANAGEMENT; POST-OP TONSILLECTOMY HEMORRHAGE; UNDIFFERENTIATED SHOCK MANAGEMENT; PEDIATRIC BURN MANAGEMENT; MAJOR HEAD TRAUMA: Not a Minor Problem; and PEDIATRIC THORACIC TRAUMA.

This issue of Surgical Clinics of North America focuses on Pediatric Surgery, and is edited by Drs. Todd Ponsky and Aaron Garrison. Articles will include: Solid Organ Injury in Pediatric Surgery; Non-accidental Trauma in Pediatric Surgery; Head and C-spine Evaluation for the Pediatric Surgeon; Abdominal Trauma Evaluation for the Pediatric Surgeon; The Role of Laparoscopy in Pediatric Trauma; The Pediatric Airway and Esophageal Foreign Bodies; Pediatric Appendicitis; Intussusception and Lower GI Bleeding; Pediatric Vascular Access; Pediatric Incarcerated Hernias; Malrotation and Midgut Volvulus in Pediatric Surgery; Pediatric Testicular Torsion; Soft Tissue Abscess and Complex Wound Closure in Pediatric Surgery; Pediatric Ovarian Torsion; Timing of Anesthesia for Pediatric Surgery; and more!

The topics in this issue represent the most current research areas of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN). The CPCCRN is a national pediatric critical care research network that is charged with investigating the efficacy of treatment and management strategies to care for critically ill and injured children, as well as to better understand the pathophysiological basis of critical illness and injury in childhood. The proposed authors are past and present principal and co-investigators affiliated with the CPCCRN; the proposed topics represent the individual author's area of clinical and research expertise. Each review article is an up-to-date review of the topic relevant to practicing clinicians and trainees in critical care medicine, with incorporation of the most recently published research findings pertinent to the topic, some of which may be the author's own. The specific articles are devoted to the following topics: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in pediatric and cardiac ICU; Approach to the critically ill pediatric trauma patient; Transfusion Decision Making in Pediatric Critical Illness; Pathophysiology and management of ARDS in children; Ventilator associate pneumonias in critically ill children; Mechanical ventilation and decision support in pediatric intensive care; Inflammation, pathobiology, phenotypes and sepsis: From meningococcemia to H1N1-MRSA, to Ebola; Immune paralysis in pediatric critical care; Molecular biology of critical illness; Sedation in pediatric critical illness; Delirium in pediatric critical illness; Challenges of drug development in pediatric intensive care; Potential of All Steroid Hormone Subclasses as Adjunctive Treatment for Sepsis; Morbidity: Changing the outcome paradigm; and End-of-Life and Bereavement Care in Pediatric Intensive Care Units.

This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Mechanical Circulatory Support. Editors Nitin Puri and Michael Baram have assembled an expert team of authors on topics such as: History of ECMO; Evolution current technique and equipment; Program Development; Review ELSO standards; Cardiac Failure of medical management; Cardiac Management and Complications; Pre-Respiratory; Respiratory Management and Complications; Post ECMO management; Post ECMO complication; DVT; Transport- Interhospital and How to prep patient; ECHO; Family understanding of ECMO (to cannulate or not); Pharmacy, Nutrition, Blood Management; Transport; The future of ECMO and ventilation.

This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Psychiatric Aspects of Critical Care Medicine. Editor Jose Maldonado has assembled an expert team of authors on topics such as: Psychiatric Aspects of Organ Transplantation in Critical Care; Medical Complications of Psychiatric Treatment; Psychiatric and Palliative Care in the ICU; Psychiatric Aspects of Heart and Lung Disease in Critical Care; Alcohol Withdrawal Syndromes: Assessment and Management; Substance Abuse and Withdrawal in the Critical Care Setting; Mood Disorders and The Outcome of Suicidal Thoughts and Attempts; Anxiety Disorders and the Outcomes of Trauma; Assessment and Management of Toxidromes in the Critical Care Unit; Neuropsychiatric Consequences of Trauma and Head Injury; Detection and Management of Pre-Existing Cognitive Impairment in the Critical Care Unit; Delirium: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Infectious Processes.

This issue of Hand Clinics will include the following articles: Management of Acute Adult Hand Burns; Management of Acute Pediatric Hand Burns; Electrical Injury; Frostbite Injury; The Biologic Principles of Scar and Contracture; Postburn Contractures of the Hand; Biology and Treatment of Upper Extremity Heterotopic Ossificatio; Postburn Contractures of the Elbow and Heterotopic Ossification; Reconstruction of the Adult and Pediatric Burned Hand; Microsurgical Reconstruction of the Burned Hand; The Use of Dermal Skin Substitutes for the Treatment of the Burned Hand; and many more exciting articles!

Despite advances in medical technology and patient safety initiatives, maternal morbidity and mortality rates continue to increase. Maternal mortality trends in the US as reported from the CDC from 1989-2009 demonstrate increasing mortality trends from 7.2 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1987 to 17.8 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2009. To combat this problem, a thorough understanding of the critical medical and surgical issues that are often encountered in pregnancy is essential. Each article addresses a topic relevant to care of the critically ill gravida.

Now fully revised and updated, Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid is essential reading for any trail user, from trip leaders and guides to EMTs and paramedics. You'll learn vital skills, such as: *How to survey, assess, and stabilize the victim and the medical situation *How to manage physical symptoms *What questions to ask to gain necessary vital information *How to care for wounds and orthopedic injuries, and much more Packed with useful information, Wilderness Medicine is the ultimate resource for anyone faced with providing immediate care when access to a medical facility is difficult or impossible.

This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Burn Resuscitation in the ICU. Articles include: The Physiologic Basis of Burn Shock and the Need for Aggressive Fluid Resuscitation; The Use of Colloid in Burn Resuscitation; Monitoring and Endpoints of Burn Resuscitation; Vitamin C in Burn Resuscitation; Pediatric Burn Resuscitation; Burn resuscitation in the Austere Environment; Failed Burn resuscitation; and more!