Here we've selected key titles relevant to COVID-19 from our ebook collections and collections made freely available by publishers on a temporary basis to support the COVID-19 effort: browse the list below. 

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You may also be interested in our full ebook collections for titles across all aspects of medicine and healthcare. 

Please note: the entire Oxford Medicine Online collection is freely available to NHS staff until the end of June: how to login to Oxford Medicine Online. Springer Nature has made over 500 key textbooks across our eBook subject collections available for free, until at least the end of July.  

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Critical care
Anesthesia Emergencies (Oxford, 2015) ​​
​Critical Care Nursing in Resource Limited Environments (chapter; open access)
Care of the Acutely Ill Adult (2010)
Decision Making in Emergency Critical Care (2015)
Delirium: Prevention, Symptoms and Treatment 2017
Drugs in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (Oxford, 2015)
Emergencies in Critical Care (2013)
Emergency Department Critical Care (Oxford, 2013)
​End of Life Care in the ICU (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care) (Oxford, 2010)
Fast Facts for the Critical Care Nurse (2012)
Nursing the Acutely Ill Adult (2012)​
Oxford Desk Reference: Critical Care (2008)
​Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine (Oxford, 2019)  
​Oxford Handbook of Critical Care (Oxford, 2009)
​Oxford Handbook of Critical Care Nursing (Oxford, 2016) 
Oxford Textbook of Critical Care (Oxford, 2016)
Practical Procedures in Anaesthesia and Critical Care (Oxford, 2010)
Quick Reference to Critical Care (2015)
Ward Based Critical Care: A Guide for Health Professionals. (M&K, 2016) Open access

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Respiratory Medicine and Ventilation
Acute Respiratory Infections (2012)
Airway Management in Emergencies (2011)
Arterial Blood Gas Analysis: Making it Easy (M&K, 2016)
​Chest Imaging (Oxford, 2019)
Chest Radiology: The Essentials (2015)
Compact Clinical Guide to Mechanical Ventilation (2014)
Essential Radiology (2014)
​​Mechanical Ventilation: physiology and practice (2017) Open access
​Medical Ventilator System Basics: a clinical guide (2017) Open access
​Making Sense of Lung Function Tests: a Hands on Guide (2017) Open access 
​Human Respiratory Viral Infections (Chapter) Open access
Non-invasive ventilation in high-risk infections and mass casualty events (2014) Open access
Oxford Desk Reference: Respiratory Medicine (2009)
Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine (Oxford, 2014)
​Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Nursing (Oxford, 2009)
Respiratory Care: Assessment and Management (M&K, 2017) Open access
Respiratory Disease (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care): From advanced disease to bereavement (Oxford, 2011)
​Respiratory Medicine (Oxford, 2009)
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Virology 
​Molecular and Cellular Biology of Viruses (Chapter) Open access
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Public health and health promotion
​Health Promotion in Disease Outbreaks and Health Emergencies (Chapter) Open access
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Palliative care
Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing (Oxford, 2016)
Care of the Imminently Dying (Oxford, 2015)
Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing (Oxford, 2017)
Communication in Palliative Nursing: The COMFORT Model (Oxford, 2019)
Compassion: The Essence of Palliative and End-of-Life Care (Oxford, 2015)
Compassionate Person-Centered Care for the Dying (2015)
​End of Life Care in the ICU (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care): From advanced disease to bereavement (Oxford, 2010)
Fundamental Aspects of Palliative Care Nursing (2015)
​​Geriatric Palliative Care (Oxford, 2014)
Oxford American Handbook of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (2014)
​​Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine (Oxford, 2015)​
Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing (Oxford, 2019)
​Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care (Oxford, 2019)
​Palliative Care (Oxford 2015)
​A Practical Guide to End of Life Care (2015)