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Edited by Derek S. Wheeler, Hector R. Wong, and Thomas P. Shanley.
1805 pp, $219.
New York, NY, Springer, 2007.
ISBN-13 978-1-8462-8463-2.

JAMA. 2008;299(3):346-347.

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Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence is a well-written, well-organized, and comprehensive textbook of pediatric critical care. If nothing else, the editors of this new textbook must be commended for the sheer scope of their ambition. For a relatively specialized field, pediatric critical care medicine has a plethora of competing textbooks. This new book is clearly aimed to compete with the 3 standard references in the field: Pediatric Critical Care, by Fuhrmann and Zimmerman; Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care, by Rogers and Nichols; and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, by Slonim, Pollack, Bell, and Berger.

Neonatal intensive care. Photograph courtesy of Derek S. Wheeler.

When choosing which textbook to purchase, readers might do well to consider specific aspects of the text by Wheeler et al. In my view, this text is the best-organized and most user-friendly critical care textbook since the text by Rogers and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Alexander A. Kon, MD, Reviewer
Department of Pediatrics
University of California, Davis
aakon@ucdavis.edu