ABSTRACT
This is the only chapter in this book that contains advice about management. To describe the relatively small number of symptoms and signs that accompany the failure of the body’s life-supporting systems without describing how, in emergency circumstances, these system failures should be treated from the moment the signs of failure are observed would be pointless. Furthermore, medical students, even in their early years of learning the basic clinical symptoms and signs of disease, are expected by the general public to know how to administer emergency first-aid measures to an injured patient.
