Part 1 Cardiac medicine: the duties of a house doctor; the Registrar's role; discharge; admission procedure; shock; cardiorespiratory arrest; cardiac arrhythmias, anti-arrhythmic drugs; pacemakers; heart failure; inotropics used in heart failure; vasodilators used in heart failure; acute pulmonary oedema; hypertensive emergencies; coronary circulation; ischaemic heart disease; myocardial infarction; complicated myocardial infarction; cardiovascular formulae; body surface nomograms. Part 2 Cardiac surgery: intra-operative treatment; postoperative management; monitoring; postoperative cardiac care; re-opening in ITU; inotropics used in intensive care; vasodilators used in postoperative cardiac surgery; the intra-aortic balloon; the respiratory system in cardiac surgery; therapeutic bronchoscopy; complications after coronary surgery; fluids, electrolytes and the renal system after cardiac surgery; nutritional aspects of cardiac surgery; neurological problems; haematological problems; pyrexia; liver failure; late postoperative management; valve surgery; infective endocarditis; heart muscle diseases; acute myopericarditis; cardiac transplantation; aortic aneurysms, aortic dissection. Part 3 Congenital heart disease: cardiac arrest in children; the child with congenital heart disease; congenital heart defects; systemic-pulmonary shunts. Part 4 Respiratory medicine: admission procedure in thoracic non-cardiac cases; respiratory function tests; thoracic procedures; respiratory failure; adult respiratory distress syndrome; mechanical ventilation; pulmonary embolism; massive haemoptysis; pneumonia; acute emergencies in asthma. Part 5 Thoracic surgery: spontaneous pneumothorax; cardiothoracic trauma; lung abscess; bronchiectasis; empyema thoracis; septic shock; multisystem failure in surgical patients; foreign bodies in airways; lung cancer; thoracotomy; pulmonary resection; lung transplantation. Part 6 Oesophageal surgery: investigations; perforation and rupture; carcinoma; resection. Appendices: conversion of stones and pounds into kilograms; conversion of feet and inches into centimetres; conversion of degrees Fahrenheit to degrees Celsius; dilution table.
