Download or read book Key Facts in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care written by Alcira Serrano Gomez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-12 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.