The book on purpose, is not encyclopedic unlike most of the standard Western texts on critical care. It is directed to the practice of critical care as observed and practised in our country and other tropical developing countries. However, it also deals with critical care problems common to both, the East and West. The critical care of important fulminant infections in the tropics has been revised, emphasized, and will unquestionably prove very useful to intensivists practising in tropical countries such as India, Africa and parts of South East Asia.