Further reading

American College of Surgeons’ Committee on Trauma. Advanced Trauma Life Support, Student Manual, Ameri­can College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL (only available as part of the ATLS course).

Blalock, A. (1930) Experimental shock: the cause of low blood pressure produced by muscle injury. Archives of Surgery, 20, 95 9—96.

Blalock, A. (1943) A consideration of the present status of the shock problem. Surgery, 14, 487—508.

Dobb, G.J. and Donovan, K.D. (1992) Bedside catheteriza­tion. In Care of the Critically Ill Patient (eds J. Tinker and WM. Zapol), Springer, London, pp.

1205—19.

European Resuscitation Council (1990) Guidelines for Advanced Life Support, A statement by the Advanced Life Support Working Party of the European Resuscita­tion Council.

Halford, F. (1943) A critique of intravenous anesthesia in war surgery. Anesthesiology, 4, 67—9.

Moore, F.D. and Shires, G.T. (1967) Moderation. Annals of Surgery, 166, 300—1.

Price, H.L., Deutsch, S., Marshall, B.E., Stephen, G.W, Behar, M.G. and Neufeld, G.R. (1966) Haemodynamic and metabolic effects of haemorrhage in man with particular reference to the splanchnic circulation. Circulation Research, 18, 469—74.

Rosen, M., Lotte, P and Ng, S. (1992) Handbook of Central Venous Catheterisation, WB. Saunders, London.

Salmon, J.B. and Mythen, M.G. (1993) Pharmacology and physiology of colloids. Blood Reviews, 7,

114—20.

Shires, T., Coin, D., Carrico, J. and Lightfoot, S. (1964) Fluid therapy in hemorrhagic shock. Archives of Surgery, 88,

68 8—93.