Science and Practice of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

2. Development of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine—How Did We Get Here and Why?
John J. Downes

3. Epidemiology of Critical Illness
R. Scott Watson, Mary E. Hartman

4. Ethics in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
K. Sarah Hoehn, Robert M. Nelson

5. The Patient’s Family in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Sol J. Goldstein, I. David Todres

6. Scoring Systems in Critical Care
Thomas J. Cholis, Murray M. Pollack

7. Outcomes and Quality Definitions Assessment and Analysis
Susan L. Bratton, James P. Marcin

8. Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Administration
Lorry R. Frankel

9. Nursing Care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Franco A. Carnevale

10. The Physician–Scientist in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Thomas P. Shanley

11. Resident and Nurse Education in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Girish G. Deshpande, Gwen Lombard, Adalberto Torres

12. Evidence-Based Medicine in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Adrienne G. Randolph

13. Patient Safety in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
David C. Stockwell, Anthony D. Slonim

14. Pediatric Critical Care in Developing Countries
Gregory L. Stidham, William M. Novick

15. The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the Future:Technological Advances in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Kenneth Tegtmeyer

16. Molecular Biology in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Lesley A. Doughty

17. Genetic Polymorphisms in Critical Care and Illness
Mary K. Dahmer, Michael W. Quasney

18. Signal Transduction Pathways in Critical Illness and Injury
Timothy T. Cornell, Thomas P. Shanley

19. Proinflammatory and Antiinflammatory Mediators in Critical Illness
Daniel G. Remick

20. Endogenous Cytoprotective Mechanisms
Hector R. Wong

21. Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
Basilia Zingarelli

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics, Anesthesiology