Pt. I. Setting up a recovery room. 1. Design of the recovery room. 2. Staffing and management. 3. Equipment. 4. Infection control -- Pt. II. Patient care. 5. Golden rules for the recovery room. 6. Routine recovery room procedures. 7. Different approaches for different age-groups. 8. Drains and catheters. 9. The unfit patient. 10. Special care with certain operations. 11. Problems and emergencies. 12. Monitoring. 13. Pain control in the recovery room: using systemic drugs. 14. Pain control in the recovery room: using regional anaesthesia. 15. Intravenous fluids. 16. The bleeding patient. 17. Drugs and infusions -- Pt. III. Basic physiology and useful data. 18. The cardiovascular system. 19. The respiratory system -- Pt. IV. Appendices. I. Abbreviations. II. Swan-Ganz catheters. III. Useful data. IV. Assessment and protocols. V. Trays and trolleys
