This book is a revised, updated, and expanded version of the first edition, which has proven its worth through its clarity and practical relevance. The work conveys the most important experiences in intensive care units of medium-sized and smaller hospitals, especially from the operative area, provides suggestions for specialists, and offers further training content for specialist trainees and intensive care nurses.

Topic Overview:
Part A: General information about critical care, hygiene, monitoring, physiotherapy, ventilation, sedation, and nutrition.
Part B: Specific problems such as organ failure, traumatic brain injury, polytrauma, burns, brain death assessment, and more.
Part C: Acute disturbances of vital functions in infants and children, particularly for physicians who do not specialize in this field.
Part D (new): Special aspects of.