Stewart's Textbook of Acid Base - fully revised 3rd edition

If traditional acid-base teaching has left you puzzled, this book will change everything. Acid-base balance remains one of the most foundational—and misunderstood—concepts in medicine and the biosciences. This fully revised third edition of the renowned textbook, often called the black bible of acid-base, brings clarity through quantitative reasoning. Building on Peter A. Stewart’s groundbreaking work, this edition retains his original unabridged text and adds over 20 chapters written by leading international clinicians and researchers. The result is a comprehensive, clinically focused, and visually rich guide to acid-base medicine, emphasizing practical application of the Stewart approach across specialties. Whether you're a physician, physiologist, or student, this book provides the tools to understand acid-base balance at a deep and intuitive level—with simple, quantitative explanations that cut through traditional confusion. Highly recommended for: Consultants, fellows, and residents in critical care, anesthesiology, internal medicine, emergency medicine, and surgery; physiologists, veterinarians, bioscientists, and medical students.