Preface; Part I. Basic Principles: 1. Oxygen delivery, cardiac function and monitoring Lois Champion; 2. Shock Philip Jones; 3. Oxygen therapy Ahmed F. Hegazy and Ian McConachie; 4. Central venous access Ken Blonde and Robert Arntfield; 5. Fluid therapy in ICU Janet Martin, John Fuller and Ian McConachie; 6. Anemia and blood transfusion Shane W. English and Lauralyn McIntyre; 7. Coagulation problems in the critically ill Alejandro Lazo-Langner; 8. Airway management in critically ill patients Titus C Yeung and Donald E. G. Griesdale; 9. Non-invasive mechanical ventilation Mark Soth and Thomas Piraino; 10. Nutrition Ilya Kagan and Pierre Singer; 11. Electrolyte and metabolic acid/base problems Harneet Kaur and Clay A. Block; 12. Principles of IPPV and care of the ventilated patient Mohit Bhutani and Ian McConachie; 13. Modes of ventilation and ventilator strategies Tania Ligori; 14. Discontinuing mechanical ventilation Ron Butler; 15. Vasoactive drugs Daniel H. Ovakim; 16. Optimizing antimicrobial therapy in the ICU Anand Kumar; 17. Sedation, analgesia and neuromuscular block Brian Pollard; 18. Continuous renal replacement therapy A. Ebersohn and Rudi Brits; 19. Chronic critical illness David Leasa; 20. Recognising and responding to the deteriorating patient Rebecca P. Winsett, John Kellett and Christian P. Subbe; 21. ICU rehabilitation Linda Denehy and Sue Berney; 22. Palliative care, withholding and withdrawal of life support in the intensive care unit Lois Champion and Valerie Schulz; Part II. Specific Problems: 23. The injured patient in the ICU Neil Parry and W. Robert Leeper; 24. Neurotrauma Ari Ercole, Jessie R. Welbourne and Arun K. Gupta; 25. Acute coronary syndromes Kala Kathirgamanathan and Jaffer Syed; 26. Heart failure Christopher W. White, Darren H. Freed, Shelley R. Zieroth and Rohit K. Singal; 27. Arrythmias Umjeet Singh Jolly and Jamie Manlucu; 28. The patient with sepsis Jennifer Vergel Del Dios, Tom Varughese and Ravi Taneja; 29. Acute kidney injury R. T. Noel Gibney; 30. Acute lung injury and ARDS Raj Nichani, M. J. Naisbitt and Chris Clarke; 31. The patient with gastrointestinal problems Tina Mele; 32. The comatose patient: neurological aspects G. Bryan Young; 33. The obstetric patient in the ICU Carlos Kidel and Alan McGlennan; 34. The critically ill asthmatic Ian M. Ball; 35. Endocrine problems in critical illness Wael Haddara; 36. The cardiac surgery patient in the ICU Jeff Granton; 37. Care of the organ donor Mowaffaq Almikhlafi and Michael D. Sharpe; 38. The patient with cardiac arrest Osama Almuslim; Index.