Ch. 1 Airway management -- Case 1.1 Partial airway obstruction: planning for a suspected difficult airway -- Case 1.2 Management of unanticipated failed intubation -- ch. 2 Perioperative care -- Case 2.1 Intraoperative fluid balance: what to measure? -- Case 2.2 Accidental awareness during general anaesthesia -- Case 2.3 Cardiopulmonary exercise testing: utility in major surgery -- ch. 3 Laparoscopic and bariatric surgery -- Case 3.1 Prolonged laparoscopic surgery -- Case 3.2 Anaesthesia for bariatric surgery -- ch. 4 Neuroanesthesia -- Case 4.1 Radiological coiling for cerebral aneurysm -- Case 4.2 Anaesthesia in the head-injured patient -- ch. 5 Obstetric anaesthesia -- Case 5.1 Obstetric haemorrhage: planning a safe delivery -- Case 5.2 Category 1 caesarean section: treating mother and child -- ch. 6 Paediatric anaesthesia -- Case 6.1 Magnetic resonance imaging and the neonate -- Case 6.2 Paediatric tonsillectomy --

ch. 7 Acute pain management -- Case 7.1 A case for paravertebral blockade? -- Case 7.2 Achieving postoperative pain control -- ch. 8 Multiple trauma -- Case 8.1 Multiple trauma and the anaesthetist -- ch. 9 Cardiac disease and anaesthesia -- Case 9.1 Coronary stents and anaesthesia -- Case 9.2 Post-arrest percutaneous coronary intervention: the role of the anaesthetist.