Editors
Richard S. Irwin
Craig M. Lilly
Paul H. Mayo
James M. Rippe

2018

It is with great pleasure that we present the eighth edition of Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine. As with previous editions, the editorial challenge that we faced with this edition was to continue to ensure that the book remained at the cutting edge, evolving as the field has evolved. It also needed to continue to meet the varied and rigorous demands placed on it by the diverse group of specialty physicians and nonphysicians practicing in the adult intensive care environment without losing strengths that have made previous editions very useful and popular.