Includes bibliographical references and index.

Design and organisation of intensive care units -- Outreach -- Severity of illness and likely outcome from critical illness -- Transport of the critically ill -- Physiotherapy in intensive care -- Critical care nursing -- Ethics in intensive care -- Common problems after ICU -- Clinical information systems -- Clinical trials in critical care -- Shock: an overview -- Haemodynamic monitoring -- Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome -- Monitoring oxygenation -- Lactic acidosis -- Acute cardiac syndromes, investigations and interventions -- Adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Management of cardiac arrhythmias -- Cardiac pacing and implantable cardioverter/defibrillators -- Acute heart failure -- Valvular and congenital heart disease -- Intensive care after cardiac surgery -- Echocardiography in intensive care -- Oxygen therapy -- Airway management and acute upper-airway obstruction -- Acute respiratory failure in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- Mechanical ventilation -- Humidification and inhalation therapy -- The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) -- Pulmonary embolism -- Acute severe asthma -- Pneumonia -- Non-invasive ventilation -- Respiratory monitoring -- Imaging of the chest -- Acute gastrointestinal bleeding -- Severe acute pancreatitis -- Acute liver failure -- Abdominal surgical catastrophes -- Acute renal failure -- Renal replacement therapy -- Disorders of consciousness -- Status epilepticus -- Acute cerebrovascular complications -- Cerebral protection -- Brain death -- Meningitis and encephalomyelitis -- Tetanus -- Neuromuscular disorders in intensive care -- Diabetic emergencies -- Diabetic insipidus and other polyuric syndromes -- Thyroid emergencies -- Adrenocortical insufficiency in critical illness -- Acute calcium disorders --

Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia -- General obstetric emergencies in the ICU -- Severe pre-existing disease in pregnancy -- Anaphylaxis -- Host defense mechanisms and immunodeficiency disorders -- HIV and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome -- Severe sepsis -- Nosocomial infection -- Severe soft-tissue infections -- Principles of antibiotic use -- Tropical diseases -- Severe and multiple trauma -- Severe head injury -- Maxillofacial and upper-airway injuries -- Chest injuries -- Spinal injuries -- Abdominal and pelvic injuries -- Near drowning -- Burns -- Thermal disorders -- Electrical safety and injuries -- Envenomation -- Blast injury and gunshot wounds: pathophysiology and principles of management -- Biochemical terrorism -- Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and drug monitoring in critical illness -- Management of acute poisoning -- Sedation, analgesia and muscle relaxation in the intensive care unit -- Inotropes and vasopressors -- Vasodilators and antihypertensives -- Acid-base balance disorders -- Fluid and electrolyte therapy -- Metabolic response to injury and infection -- Enteral and parenteral nutrition -- Blood transfusion -- Colloids and blood products -- Therapeutic plasma exchange and intravenous immunoglobulin immunomodulatory therapy -- Haemostatic failure -- Haematological malignancies -- Organ donation -- Liver transplantation -- Heart and lung transplantation -- The critically ill child -- Upper respiratory tract obstruction in children -- Acute respiratory failure in children -- Paediatric fluid and electrolyte therapy -- Sedation and analgesia in children -- Shock and cardiac disease in children -- Neurological emergencies in children -- Paediatric trauma -- Equipment for paediatric intensive care -- Paediatric poisoning -- Paediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation.