Key Features
Focus on the development, function, and treatment of a wide range of disease entities with the text's clear, logical, organ-system approach.

Keep all members of the pediatric ICU team up to date with coverage of topics particularly relevant to their responsibilities.


New to This Edition
Keep current with the latest developments in palliative care, mass casualty/epidemic disease, acute respiratory failure, non-invasive ventilation, neurocritical care, neuroimaging, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, acute lung injury, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, and much more.

Quickly find the information you need with sections newly reorganized for easier access.


Gain the perspectives of six expert associate editors on all the new developments in the field.


Understand complex concepts quickly and conclusively with a brand new full-color format and more than 1,000 illustrations.


Search the full text, download the image library, and access online board review questions targeting every relevant topic, all at www.expertconsult.com.

Published Reviews
"The Trauma and Burns section is the best pediatric trauma reference I have encountered in any text"-Critical Care Medicine (review of the previous edition)


"A text that has become the standard in most pediatric ICUs."-JAMA (review of the previous edition)