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Peter Nightingale
Maire Shelly
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Steve Benington
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MCQs in Intensive Care Medicine
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Contents
page
Preface iv
Foreword v
Abbreviations vi
How to use this book ix
Paper 1
Type ‘A’ questions 1
Type ‘K’ questions 21
Type ‘A’ answers 37
Type ‘K’ answers 65
Paper 2
Type ‘A’ questions 91
Type ‘K’ questions 111
Type ‘A’ answers 129
Type ‘K’ answers 157
Paper 3
Type ‘A’ questions 185
Type ‘K’ questions 203
Type ‘A’ answers 221
Type ‘K’ answers 249