Includes bibliographical references and index.

Epidemiology of critical care / David Sperry -- Patient assess ment / Bernard Riley -- Respiratory support / Simon Wharton & Roslyn Purcell -- Acute respiratory distress syndrome / Mark Ehle rs -- Cardiovascular support in critical care / Ravi Mahajan & Ia in Moppett -- Sepsis and disseminated intravascular coagulation / Keith Girling -- Renal support therapy / David Selwyn & James Low -- Nutritional and metabolic care / Simon Allison & Dileep L obo -- Infection in critical care / Hilary Humphreys -- Critic al care of the trauma patient / Adam Brooks, Peter Mahoney & C. Wili am Schwab -- Neurological critical care / Keith Girling & Bernard Riley -- Pain management in critical care / John Williams & Jona than Thompson -- Ethics in critical care medicine / Robert Winter .