A comprehensive 2006 volume on the theories and applications of evidence-based anaesthesia and critical care. Coming from the internationally renowned Cochrane Collaboration - the global force in evidence-based medicine - this promises to be an authoritative guide for anaesthetists. The Cochrane Anaesthesia Review Group is one of the largest in the collaboration and, as coordinators of the group, the editors of this book have gathered a formidable set of contributions from around the world. The first half of the book provides an introduction to evidence-based medicine and applies the principles to anaesthesia and critical care, including critical appraisal, meta-analysis, interpreting results and controlling bias. The second half shows how to practise this in preoperative evaluation, regional and general anaesthesia, postoperative pain therapy, critical care and acute medicine. Medical professionals working in anaesthesia and surrounding specialties worldwide will find this book immensely useful.

'The text is invariably well written and is extremely engaging in style. … I believe that this book will be welcome to researchers and educators in anaesthesia; it represents an extremely thorough and compact drawing-together of the currently available evidence in our specialty and will be a very useful means of rapidly becoming conversant with the evidence base of issues of interest. Medicolegal practitioners will also find the book useful in supporting their assessment of the standard of care and causation.'

Source: ESA Newsletter