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Started as a manual to help recovery room staff of isolated hospitals, this third edition of "The Complete Recovery Room Book" attempts to be a comprehensive compendium about patients' conditions and complications in the immediate postoperative period. Chapters include setting-up/running a recovery room, monitoring, day surgery, operations, major complications, special problems and crisis management. There are eight appendices, some 'international' (e.g., arrhythmias), others less so (e.g., common abbreviations). Although the authors suggest using the book like an encyclopedia, this requires comprehensive indexing, which this is not. For example, "saturation" is only included under "oxygen", and then linked with "extubation". The book is clearly written, with good use of point form. Some information is sensibly repeated, with cross-referencing in the text. Helpful aphorisms are scattered throughout the book: "The confused, restless, agitated patient is hypoxic until proven otherwise". "Treat the patient, not the monitor".