Oxford Textbook of Respiratory Critical Care

Respiratory critical care is essential to modern critical care medicine. To successfully support critically ill patients, an understanding of specific lung conditions and syndromes, their pathophysiological basis, and evidence-based management strategies is of vital importance. The Oxford Textbook of Respiratory Critical Care provides an authoritative account of respiratory critical care medicine with a clear focus on how to manage respiratory disease in the critically ill.

The fundamentals of pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment, for respiratory diseases and conditions are outlined with a specific focus on management in the critical care setting. Across 66 chapters, common and unusual respiratory conditions are included as well as those aspects of pulmonary disease in which the management in critical illness is unique. The text equips the reader with up-to-date knowledge of clinical practice for the respiratory system, lung diseases within critical care medicine and the impact of critical illness on lung biology.

Each chapter highlights advances in the field as well as emphasising the importance of getting the basics right. Key messages, controversies, and directions to further research points allow both focused reading and deeper engagement. A dedicated chapter to COVID-19, and sections throughout explore the impact of this novel virus in specific areas of respiratory critical care.

Edited and written by an international group of recognized experts from many disciplines, this essential textbook is relevant to medics globally. This is an indispensable guide for clinicians, researchers and nurses working in Critical Care, Anaesthesia, Respiratory Medicine, Acute Medicine, and Emergency Medicine.

Suveer Singh, Consultant Respiratory and Intensive Care Physician; Professor of Practice, Royal Brompton Hospital, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital; Imperial College London, UK, Paolo Pelosi, Full professor in Anesthesiology and Critical Care;, Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, University of Genoa; San Martino Policlinico Hospital, IRCCS for Oncology and Neuosciences, Genoa, Italy, Andrew Conway Morris, Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge and Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge; JVF Intensive Care Unit, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge

Dr Singh’s academic career combines full time clinical work, with high educational and research output, within Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. He works in one of the UK’s national ECMO centres, leading the follow up service, and in Burns-General ICU. His Grant funded collaborative research is in early diagnostic markers for Ventilator associated pneumonia, behavioural aspects of antibiotic stewardship, safe practice of bronchoscopy in ICU, and Burns inhalation injury. He supervises MD, PhD, MSc, BSc students. He was Imperial College Campus Director of Undergraduate Studies, and is Examiner to the Royal College of Physicians, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, European Society of Intensive Care.

Paolo Pelosi: Full Professor in Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Director of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, San Martino Policlinico Hospital, IRCCS for Oncology and Neurosciences, Genoa, Italy. Director of Regional Poison Control Center, San Martino Policlinico Hospital, IRCCS for Oncology and Neurosciences, Genoa, Italy. Fellow of the European Respiratory Society (FERS). Fellow of the Brasilian Academy of Medical Sciences.

Dr Conway Morris undertook his undergraduate training at the University of Glasgow before moving to Edinburgh to train in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. He completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh on the function of neutrophils in critical illness, during which time he identified factors which pre-dispose patients to nosocomial pneumonia as well as developing several diagnostics for pneumonia. He moved to the University of Cambridge to continue post-doctoral studies. He is currently an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow pursuing his research in critical illness immunology and pneumonia, alongside working as a consultant in intensive care medicine in Addenbrooke’s Hospital.