Intensive care medicine is a dynamic & evolving specialty requiring its practitioners to be part physician physiologist & anaesthetist This requires a firm foundation of knowledge & an ability to apply this to the clinical situation This book contains 270 multiple choice questions allowing self-assessment of the breadth of knowledge required of the modern intensivist The book is divided into three papers each consisting of 60 multiple true false (MTF) & 30 single best answer (SBA) questions covering areas including resuscitation diagnosis disease management organ support & ethical & legal aspects of practice The MTF questions test factual knowledge & understanding of the evidence base underpinning intensive care medicine while the SBA questions test the ability of the candidate to prioritise compete options & make the best decision for the patient Each question is peer reviewed & accompanied by concise & detailed explanatory notes with references to guide further reading All the authors are practising intensive care physicians with first-hand experience of professional examinations in the specialty This book will appeal to intensive care physicians approaching professional examinations worldwide including the European Diploma American Board & Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine examinations In addition it will appeal to intensive care nurses & allied healthcare professionals wishing to update their knowledge as part of continuing professional development & to physicians sitting professional examinations in related specialties requiring knowledge of intensive care medicine such as general medicine general surgery & anaesthesia This book will complement the existing international best-selling title Multiple Choice Questions in Intensive Care Medicine (9781903378 649) also written by Dr Steve Benington