This pocket-sized book succinctly describes 318 errors commonly made by attendings, residents, interns, nurses, and nurse-anesthetists in the intensive care unit, and gives practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding these errors. The book can easily be read immediately before the start of a rotation or used for quick reference on call. Each error is described in a short, clinically relevant vignette, followed by a list of things that should always or never be done in that context and tips on how to avoid or ameliorate problems.

• medications • devices, lines, tubes, catheters, drains, procedures • ventilators, airway, intubation, extubation • infectious disease • shock, fluids, electrolytes • neurological/neurosurgical intensive care • laboratory tests • nutrition • renal disease • blood • imaging and tests • pregnancy • burns