- Patient assessment (how do the scoring systems work and what do they relate to exactly?)
- Clinical decision making (essential for students who cannot prioritize)
- The breathless patient / respiratory support
- The patient with chest pain / cardiac arrest
- The patient in pain
- The patient in shock
- The patient with sepsis and distributive shock
- The patient with delirium
- The patient with acute kidney injury
- The patient with physiological trauma
- The patient with altered consciousness
- The patient with an overdose
- The patient with an endocrine disorder
- Safe transfer of patients
- Sudden death and end-of-life care
- Professionalism, accountability, law and teamwork
- Vulnerability and safeguarding
- Human Factors and error in the acute environment
- Conclusion
Answers to end-of-chapter assessment
Glossary