Section I: Preop. Communications; preparation of healthy patients; preoperative rituals; emergencies; pre-existing cardiovascular disease; pre-existing respiratory disease; pre-existing endocrinology; neuromuscular diseases and surgery; pre-existing psychiatry; pre-existing haematology; pre-existing gastrointestinal and nutritional disease; miscellaneous pre-existing conditions; infection risk. Section II: Postop. Acute pain: the problem; pain management: the drugs; simple analgesic techniques; advanced analgesic techniques; nausea and vomiting; fluid and electrolyte balance; bleeding and transfusion; feeding; blood gases; monitoring devices; hypotension; dysrhythmias; hypertension; myocardial ischaemia; pulmonary oedema; cardiac arrest; respiratory problems; oliguria and catheters; fever; hypothermia; CNS complications; miscellaneous postoperative problems; thrombosis; tricks with drips; using of ITU; death. Action pages: Analgesic drugs, anaphylaxis, acute asthma, atrial fibrillation, bleeding, bleeding in children, diabetic ketoacidosis, extrapyramidal side-effects, hyperkalaemia, hypoglycaemia, hypotension, 'ill', insulin regimens, oliguria, preoperative investigations, pulmonary oedema, refractory nausea and vomiting, respiratory distress, superventricular tachycardia, ventricular tachycardia