Lecture Notes: Clinical Anaesthesia, 3rd Revised edition--------------------------------------------------The importance of the anaesthetist cannot be over-stated. The rolecontinues to evolve and anaesthetists now have contact with the majorityof patients admitted to hospital, not only providing the conditionsunder which surgery can be performed safely, but also playing a majorrole in preoperative assessment, postoperative care, pain management,recognition and management of the critically ill, and resuscitation.This third edition of Lecture Notes: Clinical Anaesthesia has beenfully revised to reflect the changes and recent developments withinanaesthesia and medicine, particularly for trainees. In addition toproviding a broad introduction to the specialty of anaesthesia, itincludes chapters on intensive care and resuscitation, and how to dealwith that all important problem of responding to a call to manage anacutely unwell patient on the ward. Colour diagrams, photographs, andkey fact boxes support easy understanding of key information while,new to this edition, are chapter specific self-assessment questionsdesigned to test your knowledge and focus learning. Written specificallyfor medical students and junior doctors on the Foundation Programme,anaesthetic nurses, emergency physicians and operating department practitioners,Lecture Notes: Clinical Anaesthesia can be used as a core text or asa supplementary revision resource.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Dr Carl Gwinnutt is a Consultant Anaesthesist atthe Hope Hospital, Salford, Manchester, UK.