Martin Tobin MD, Director, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine; Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology, Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and Edward Hines, Jr., VA Hospital; Attending Physician, RML Specialty Hospital, Maywood, IL. past editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine - has completely revised this text, acclaimed by The Lancet as "the bible of mechanical ventilation."