Book excerpt: 1. Critical Care Scenario in India 2. Recognition and Stabilization of the Critically Ill Child 3. Resuscitation 4. Fluid and Electrolytes in the Critically Ill Child 5. Oxygen Therapy in the Emergency Room and PICU 6. Lung Mechanics with Ventilation: Physiology and Monitoring 7. Basics of Mechanical Ventilation 8. Noninvasive Ventilation 9. Respiratory Monitoring in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit 10. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome 11. Hemodynamic Monitoring 12. Acute Heart Failure 13. Cardiac Arrhythmias 14. Vasoactive Agents 15. Hypertensive Crises 17. Approach to a Comatose Child 18. Head Injury in Children 19. Status Epilepticus 20. End of Life Care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit 21. Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Children 22. Basics of RRT in ICU 23. Gastrointestinal Tract Bleed 24. Acute Liver Failure 25. Pre- and Post-operative Management of a Liver Transplant Patient 26. Nutrition in Critically Ill Children 27. Dengue in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit 28. Management of a Child with Polytrauma 29. Drowning 30. Pediatric Emergency Care: Poisoning and Toxidromes 31. Envenomation (Snake Envenomation and Scorpion Sting) 32. Oncological Emergencies 33. Blood Components in Intensive Care Practice 34. Ventilator Associated Pneumonia and Hospital Acquired Pneumonia 35. Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infection 36. Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection 37. Antimicrobial Stewardship in PICU 38. Pain and Sedation 39. Nursing Issues in the PICU 40. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Index