Includes bibliographical references and index.

Triage and assessment of emergency patient -- Monitoring critical patients -- Vascular access -- Shock and intravenous fluid therapy -- Blood gas, acid-base analysis, and electrolyte abnormalities -- Analgesia and anaesthesia of the emergency and critical patient -- Practical laboratory techniques -- Techniques for oxygen supplementation -- The dyspnoeic patient -- Nursing the cardiac patient -- Nursing the acute abdomen patient -- Nursing urinary tract emergencies -- Nursing the poisoned patient -- Nursing the trauma patient -- Nursing the reproductive patient -- Small animal critical care and hospitalised patient nutrition -- Nursing the emergency ophthalmology patient -- Cardiopulmonary arrest and resuscitation -- Nursing considerations in the critical patient.