Topics of this title include: Why Economics Matters to Critical Care Clinicians; Overview of Health Economics: Basics Concept for Clinicians; Health Economic Methods; Costs of Critical Care Medicine; Economic Aspects of Sepsis and Severe Infections; Economic Aspects of Renal Failure and Acute Kidney Injury; Economic Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease; and, Economics of Mechanical Ventilation and Respiratory Failure and Comparative Effective Research and Health Care Reform.