Key Facts in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

This pocket-sized book is an essential companion for all anaesthetists, intensive care specialists, intensive care nurses.

Gilbert R. Park (Author), Alcira Serrano (Author)

9781841101750, Greenwich Medical Media

Paperback / softback, published 12 January 2002

64 pages
18.6 x 12.3 x 0.5 cm, 0.094 kg

This pocket-sized book is an essential companion for all anaesthetists, intensive care specialists, intensive care nurses or any other healthcare professional working in the perioperative or intensive care environment. It provides a readily available source of information and guidance, mostly in the form of easy-to-follow tables, line drawings and flow diagrams, on many aspects of anaesthesia and intensive care, including normal values for common biochemical and haematological tests (and their interpretation), resuscitation protocols, equipment checklists, paediatric information and dosage differences, ventilation, sedation and analgesia and classification systems such as the APACHE II and Glasgow Coma Scales.

Preface to second edition
Preface to third edition
Common abbreviations
Useful telephone numbers
1. Normal values
2. Resuscitation
3. Anaesthetic information
4. Paediatric anaesthetic information
5. Intensive care information and data
6. Classification systems
7. National bodies in anaesthesia and specialist societies
8. Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Anaesthetics [MMB]