Manual of Cardiorespiratory Critical Care

Part 1 Cardiac medicine: including physiological basis of cardiac critical care; ITU; cardiac arrhythmias; ischaemic heart disease; myocardial infarction; infective endocarditis. Part 2 Cardiac surgery: including cardiovascular formulae; postoperative care; aortic aneurysms, dissection and peripheral vascular matters; pericardiectomy; acid base balance and metabolic disturbances. Part 3 Paediatric cardiac disease: including neonatal collapse and cyanosis; prostaglandin and tolazoline; post-operative paediatric problems. Part 4 Respiratory medicine: including thoracocentesis; mediastinoscopy; tracheostomy; bronchoscopy; emergencies during IPPV; pulmonary embolism; infective exacerbations of chronic bronchitis; the acute asthmatic attack; pneumonia; lung abscess. Part 5 Thoracic surgery: including empyema thoracis; postresectional bronchopleural fistula; septic shock; blood transfusion. Part 6 Paediatric pulmonary disease; including the neonate; mechanical ventilation in children.