Focused on the practical issues of nursing care and nursing procedures, the  Oxford Handbook of Critical Care Nursing has been written by nurses, for nurses.

Reflecting current best practice, this handbook is an easily accessible and evidence-based guide for all levels of nursing staff working in critical care environments. It provides the nurse at the bedside with the answers to day-to-day problems experienced when caring for critically ill patients, and is also a guide to some of the less commonly encountered issues.  

Now including more detail on the psychological issues facing critically ill patients and further information on the intricacies of receiving and transferring critically ill patients to and from critical care environments, this handbook is a concise, practical, evidence-based guide for nursing professionals caring for critically ill patients.

1: Prevention of admission / admission to critical care
2: Systematic assessment
3: Generic care of the critically ill patient
4: Respiratory
5: Respiratory support
6: Cardiovascular
7: Cardiovascular support
8: Neurological care
9: Renal
10: Gastrointestinal
11: Sepsis
12: Metabolic disorders
13: Immunology
14: Haematology
15: Managing emergencies
16: Obstetric emergencies
17: Poisoning
18: Trauma
19: End of life
20: Transfer of the critical care patient
21: Rehabilitation and discharge

Edited by Heather Baid, Senior Lecturer and Intensive Care Pathway Leader, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Brighton, UK

Fiona Creed, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Brighton, UK

Jessica Hargreaves, Senior Lecturer, Acute Clinical Practice, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Brighton, UK

Fiona Creed has worked as an editor on two other OUP nursing titles (Care of the Acutely Ill Adult and Nursing OSCEs) as well as holding a position as Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton.

Heather Baid is currently Senior Lecturer and Intensive Care Pathway Leader at the University of Brighton, and Intensive Care Unit Bank Nurse at Brighton and Sussex Universities Hospital NHS Trust.

Jessica Hargreaves is Senior Lecturer, Acute Clinical Practice at the University of Brighton, and Senior Staff Nurse, Intensive Care Unit, at Brighton and Sussex Universities Hospital NHS Trust.

Review from previous edition: "This is the only book of its kind and at least one copy should be available on each intensive care unit." - Nursing Standard