Contents
Foreword D. Cheng; Preface; 1. Risk and risk assessment N. Moreland and A. Adams; 2. Lessons from anaesthetic audits R. Sharma, C. Dunkley and I. McConachie; 3. Assessment of cardiovascular risk N. Moreland and A. Adams; 4. Perioperative use of cardiac medications in the high risk patient C. Railton; 5. Pharmaco-physiological approaches to the high risk surgical patient M. Cutts; 6. Respiratory risk and complications J. Granton; 7. Analgesia for the high risk patient C. Clarke and P. Morley Foster; 8. Regional anaesthesia for the high risk patient S. Dhir; 9. Anaemia, coagulopathy and blood transfusion I. McConachie; 10. The obese or malnourished patient S. Balasubramanian and P. S. Hegde; 11. Smoking, alcohol and recreational drug abuse G. Evans and I. McConachie; 12. Identification of deterioration in the perioperative period P. Dean, J. Cupitt and I. McConachie; 13. Perioperative renal insufficiency and failure R. Kishen; 14. The critically ill patient undergoing surgery I. McConachie; 15. The elderly patient S. Vaughan, I. McConachie and N. Imasogie; 16. The patient with cardiac disease undergoing non cardiac surgery C. Harle; 17. Vascular surgery D. Sebastian and I. McConachie; 18. Gastrointestinal surgery T. Turkstra and P. Jones; Index.

Review
' this is an excellent book, easy to read and digest, written by anaesthetists who translate their working thoughts clearly onto paper. I would recommend it to anaesthetists of all grades, not just trainees. I look forward to the third edition.' British Journal of Anaesthesia