Core Topics in Cardiac Anaesthesia. J. H. Mackay and J. E. Arrowsmith (editors). Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Pp. 440; indexed; illustrated. Price {pound}35.00. ISBN 1-841-10133-8

This book, with the self-explanatory title ‘Core Topicsin Cardiac Anaesthesia’ has no fewer than sixty-two authorscovering sixty-six topic-specific chapters and a comprehensiveindex and abbreviary. Any of the sixty-two contributors readingthis can breathe very much more easily from here on, as thisis a very good book indeed, with few criticisms to make or pointsto take