An understanding of critical care is vital to the modern surgeon, who is often responsible for patients requiring intensive care or high-dependency support. Key Questions in Surgical Critical Care has been designed as a companion to Surgical Critical Care, by Robert Ashford and Neal Evans, and is split into two main sections, multiple choice questions and viva topics. Based on the syllabus of the Royal College of Surgeons, each of these two sections is further subdivided into six sub-sections covering the cardiovascular system, the respiratory system, other systems and multisystem failure, problems in intensive care, principles of intensive care and practical procedures. The MCQs and viva topics provided are typical of those appearing in the MRCS examination, and the authors provide detailed explanatory notes to accompany each answer, almost all of which are cross-referenced directly to the relevant pages of Surgical Critical Care, as well as other sources of further reading.

Surgical Critical Care has been co-authored by a surgeon and an anaest hetist, and encompasses all aspects of critical care that are importan t to surgeons, including indications, therapies, drugs, specific condi tions and post-operative complications. Each chapter adopts a standar dised format for ease of quick reference (classification, causes, path ophysiology, clinical, treatment, monitoring, complications and progno sis) and is illustrated with clear black and white photographs or orig inal line drawings where appropriate.