The skill of observation -- Basic laboratory equipment for the emergency and critical care hospital -- Patient's lifeline: the intravenous catheter -- Fluid therapy -- Small animal transfusion medicine -- Nutrition for the critically ill hospitalized patient -- Oxygen therapy techniques -- Mechanical ventilation -- Pain assessment and treatment -- Anesthesia -- Managing shock -- Cardiopulmonary cerebrovascular resuscitation -- Trauma -- Hematologic emergencies -- Cardiovascular emergencies -- Respiratory emergencies. Gastrointestinal emergencies -- Metabolic and endrocrine emergencies -- Urogenital emergencies -- Reproductive emergencies -- Ocular emergencies -- Neurologic emergencies -- Toxicologic emergencies -- The art of scheduling.