It has been long felt that textbooks of pediatric critical care tend to be too exhaustive in pathophysiology and somewhat difcult to read and understand for an average pediatrician, essentially a nonintensivist. It has also been strongly felt that ready availability of a manual or a handbook describing an easy-to-implement protocol-based approach to commonly seen potentially life-threatening pediatric emergencies would be of great use to residents, pediatric consultants and even physicians taking care of critically ill or injured children.