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Book Review: Drug Infusions in Anaesthesiology

two earlier editions. Although there are fewer 'cartoons' and 'jokes', the style of the authors has been retained and the text remains easily readable. It is also interesting to note, that in addition to extra chapters (e.g. hyperbaric medicine), that this style is retained despite the text being much less conjectural and hypothetical than its predecessors. There are now 39 chapters and 10 appendices. Chapters remain unreferenced, with lists of recommended reading. This style will not suit the reader preparing papers or searching for references, but does contribute to the 'readability' of the text. This textbook always has, and in this edition still does, fill a most important niche in medicine and especially in Australasia. Australia and New Zealand have more divers (and hence more diving accidents) per capita than anywhere else; however, diving medicine is essentially not taught to undergraduate medical students, and given the intense competition for such curriculum-time, it is naive to anticipate any change in this situation. It follows that there is an obvious need for postgraduate education in this subject. This need is currently met by short-duration courses run by the Royal Australian Navy, the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Royal New Zealand Navy, and by this textbook. No other available textbook is deliberately written for the uninitiated, and in general the others are encyclopaedic and/or difficult to read. Overall then, the third edition of Diving and Subaquatic Medicine is a worthy successor, is written to be easily read by medical practitioners and other health professionals as a primer, is factually sound and consequently is recommended to those who may come into contact with both potential divers and injured divers.