This textbook provides the fundamental of children's critical care from a European perspective. It offers a valuable guide for beginners as well as for clinicians working in Intensive Care and allied professionals including the role of an ICU in a modern children's hospital, specific situations and clinical practice achievements including techniques and the more appropriate therapies to be applied in different conditions. A section is devoted to specific organs – lung, heart and circulation, kidney and RRT, gut, brain, liver and pancreas, inflammation, immunity and sepsis, metabolism and metabolic diseases in ICU – whilst other to Cardiac Critical Care and Neuro Critical Care.      

Edited and written by renowned key opinion leaders in the field, all chapters use a learning-oriented style, with practical examples, key points and take-home messages, so that readers can easily learn the content and, at the same time, apply what they have learned in the clinical setting.

ESPNIC Children's Intensive Care Textbook is also the prime textbook for the EPIC Diploma, matching the published international consensus curriculum and it is accompanied by an MCQ, in the fashion of the exam style.