Relied on for over 20 years by resident and practicing anesthesiologists and CRNAs, this best-selling pocket reference is now in its Seventh Edition.
In easy-to-scan outline format, it provides current, comprehensive, concise, consistent, and clinically relevant guidelines for anesthesia procedures throughout the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative periods and in the ICU. The book has been written, reviewed, updated, and field-tested by the internationally recognized anesthesia department of the Massachusetts General Hospital.
This edition includes new information on quality assessment, patient safety, the electronic medical record, and new techniques and medications. A new design makes information easier to access. An alphabetical drug appendix is also included.
A PDA version of this edition is also be available.
Contents
Evaluating the Patient Before Anesthesia
- Evaluating the Patient Before Anesthesia
- Specific Considerations with Cardiac Disease
- Specific Considerations with Pulmonary Disease
- Specific Considerations with Renal Disease
- Specific Considerations with Liver Disease
- Specific Considerations with Endocrine Disease
- Infectious Diseases and Infection Control in Anesthesia
Administration of Anesthesia
- Safety in Anesthesia
- The Anesthesia Machine
- Monitoring
- Intravenous and Inhalation Anesthetics
- Neuromuscular Blockade
- Airway Evaluation and Management
- Administration of General Anesthesia
- Local Anesthetics
- Spinal, Epidural, and Caudal Anesthesia
- Regional Anesthesia
- Intra-anesthetic Problems
- Perioperative Hemodynamic Control
- Anesthesia for Abdominal Surgery
- Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery
- Anesthesia for Vascular Surgery
- Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery
- Anesthesia for Neurosurgery
- Anesthesia for Head and Neck Surgery
- Anesthesia for Urologic Surgery
- Anesthesia for Geriatric Patients
- Anesthesia for Surgical Emergencies in the Neonate
- Anesthesia for Pediatric Surgery
- Anesthesia for Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Ambulatory Anesthesia
- Anesthesia Outside of the Operating Room
- Anesthesia for Trauma and Burns
- Transfusion Therapy
Perioperative Issues
- The Postanesthesia Care Unit
- Perioperative Respiratory Failure
- Adult, Pediatric, and Newborn Resuscitation
- Pain
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Ethical and End-of-Life Issues
Appendices
- Supplementary Drug Information
- Normal Laboratory Values for Blood
Index
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