Preface; 1. Perioperative management of cardiovascular disease John McNamara; 2. Perioperative management of respiratory disease Tim Clarke; 3. Perioperative care of children Warren Fisher; 4. Perioperative management of the obese patient Anand Sardasai; 5. Perioperative management of the elderly patient Karen Pedersen; 6. Perioperative management of emergency surgery Jeremy Lermitte and Jonathan Hudsmith; 7. Perioperative fluid management Iain MacKenzie; 8.

Perioperative management of coagulation Andy Johnston; 9. Perioperative management of steroid therapy Fraz Mir and Michael Lindop; 10. Perioperative management of endocrine disease Dan Wheeler and Ingrid Wilkins; 11. Perioperative management of diabetes Mike Masding and Wendy Gatling; 12. Causes and treatment of aspiration Paul Hughes; 13. Transfusion and blood products Andy Johnston; 14. The critically ill patient Bilas Navapurkar; 15. Inotropes Andy Gregg; 16.

Arterial blood gases Simon Fletcher; 17. Drugs used in anaesthesia and sedation Mike Palmer; 18. Local anaesthetics Sue Abdy; 19. Monitoring used in the perioperative period Ian Bridgland and Katrina Williams; 20. Deep vein thrombosis and thrombo-embolic disease prophylaxis Jonathan Hudsmith; 21. Postoperative nausea and vomiting Pete Young; 22. The management of perioperative pain Parameswaran Pillai and Richard Neal; 23. High dependency and recovery units Helen Smith; 24.

Postoperative hypoxia Mark Abrahams; 25. Postoperative hypotension Chris Sharpe; 26. Postoperative complications Dan Wheeler and Jeremy Lermitte; 27. Perioperative scenarios Dan Wheeler and Parameswaran Pillai; 28. Multiple choice questions Quentin Milner; Index.