Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care I. [antikvár]

Preface It is now approximately 5 years since the first edition of the Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care was published. In that time, the specialty of pediatric intensive care has undergone tremendous growth and development. It is now a recognized specialty in many countries, and board examinations for the specialty are now given in the United States. Furthermore, as I have visited pediatric intensive care units throughout the world, I have seen the specialty bloom on virtually every continent. From the republics of the former Soviet Union to Australia, from Europe to South America, from the Orient to Africa, many outstanding people are now sharing in the pleasures and in the rewards of helping critically ill children. As part of this growth and development in pediatric intensive care, this textbook continues to try to recognize the growing and dynamic nature of the field. We have organized the book with section editors who now have a developed expertise in the various subspecialties of pediatric intensive care. As a result, graduates and trainees of the program at Johns Hopkins who now are spread throughout many pediatric intensive care units have accepted responsibility for helping to organize and to contribute to this new and expanded second edition. It is my hope that this more broad-based approach will continue to improve the textbook and make it a eontinuing and valuable learning resource for all individuals interested in the field. For this edition, we have rewritten whole sections of the book and emphasized more work in the field of transplant surgery, postoperative care, and infectious disease. New developments in monitoring technology have made it advisable to take the former chapter on monitoring and distribute its contents into various areas of specialty care, so that respiratory monitoring is now found associated with respiratory disease, cardiac monitoring is now found associated with cardiac disease, and so forth. All these changes represent sincere efforts on the part of the authors to make this book as responsive to the needs of the readers as is humanly possible. We hope that we have been successful in eontinuing to improve the book and look forward to further improvements in later editions as the specialty continues to develop. Mark C. Rogers, M.D. Editor