Here is an easy-to-follow pocket bedside reference to step-by-step critical care pharmacotherapy. Based on both real patient-care experience and review of current medical literature this text will guide clinicians in giving their patient optimal, evidence-based care. It covers the most common ailments observed in critically ill medical patients and uses an algorithmic approach focusing on pharmacotherapeutics that clinicians with varying degrees of training will be able to follow. Also provided are assessment tools, preventative strategies, drug-induced disease states, and pharmacological pearls. Up-to-date references and Web links are included for many disease states to aid in reviewing available literature. Making the book easy to access in an emergency or ICU setting is the one table per disease design. Pocket Guide to Critical Care Pharmacotherapy offers very specific context for the therapeutic treatment and management of specific diseases – a valuable tool for any clinician.