Derek S. Wheeler • Hector R. Wong
Thomas P. Shanley
Editors

2014

Care of the Critically Ill
or Injured Child

The specialty of pediatric critical care medicine continues to grow and evolve! The modern PICU of today is vastly different, even compared to as recently as 5 years ago. Technological innovations in monitoring, information management, and even medical documentation have seemed to change virtually overnight. We have witnessed the gradual disappearance of some time-honored, traditional devices such as the pulmonary artery catheter.