Includes bibliographical references and index.

Assessment and management of the critically ill child/resuscitation / Mark Fores and Doreen Crawford -- Physiological monitoring of infants and children in the intensive care unit / Michaela Dixon and Debra Teasdale -- Care of an infant or child with a respiratory illness and/or the need for respiratory support / Michaela Dixon -- Care of an infant or child with a cardiac condition or disease / Sandra Batcheler and Michaela Dixon -- Care of the infant or child in renal failure / Ben Harvey and Doreen Crawford -- Care of the infant or child with acute neurological dysfunction / Michaela Dixon -- Care of an infant or child with gastrointestinal or endocrine dysfunction / Doreen Crawford and Michaela Dixon -- Care of a child with muscular skeletal injury / Mark Fores -- Care of the infant or child with thermal injury / Jane Lever -- Care of the child with cancer / Karen Selwood and Michelle Wright -- Nutrition and fluid management / Doreen Crawford -- Management of pain and sedation in intensive care / Doreen Crawford and Michaela Dixon -- Managing skin integrity, wound healing and care / Doreen Crawford -- Transportation of the critically ill infant or child / Alison Oliver and Michaela Dixon -- Care of the family / Doreen Crawford and Peter McNee -- Spiritual care and bereavement in paediatric intensive care / Peter McNee -- Safeguarding children in the intensive care unit / Gillian Earl.