Essential Guide to Acute Care

Reviews of the Second Edition vii

Introduction ix

Acknowledgements xi

Foreword to the Second Edition xiii

Units Used in This Book xv

List of Abbreviations xvii

1 Patients at Risk 1

2 Oxygen Therapy 13

3 Acid–Base Balance 35

4 Respiratory Failure 49

5 Fluid Balance and Volume Resuscitation 77

6 Sepsis 101

7 Acute Kidney Injury 129

8 Brain Injury 149

9 Optimising Patients Before Surgery 167

10 Pain ...