Handbook of Critical Care
Contributors: Robert R. Kirby (Editor); Robert W. Taylor (Contributor, Editor); Joseph M. Civetta (Editor)
Publisher: J.P. Lippincott
Published: December 1993
Language: eng
Number of pages: 801
ISBN-13: 9780397513543
First sentence: The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was recognized in the United States in San Francisco and New York in 1981, when increasing numbers of young, previously healthy male homosexuals and drug abusers presented with disease constellations that included Kaposi's sarcoma and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.