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OXFORD MEDICAL PUB LICATION S Oxford Handbook of Critical Care OXFORD MEDICAL PUB LICATION S Oxford Handbook of Critical Care FOURTH EDITION Alice Carter Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care University College London Hospitals London, UK Associate Dean and Director London Foundation School NHS England, London, UK Mervyn Singer Professor of Intensive Care Medicine Director, Bloomsbury Institute of Intensive Care Medicine NIHR Emeritus Senior Investigator University College London London, UK Andrew Webb Retired Critical Care Physician and Medical Director University College London Hospitals London, UK Retired Senior Healthcare Executive Surrey, BC, Canada and Sault Ste Marie, ON, Canada iv Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Oxford University Press 2025 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted First Edition published in 997 Second Edition published in 2005 Thir...