A Practical Approach to Pediatric Anesthesia is a comprehensive, accessible guide to pediatric anesthesia, with the substance and depth of a textbook and the convenient, user-friendly features of a handbook.

Focus on Macular Diseases focuses on clinical issues, contains enough academic material for board review, and is written in bulleted and outline format, with numerous illustrations and tables.

Emphasis is on the developmental aspects—anatomic, physiologic, and pharmacologic—that require special attention in anesthesia planning.

Contents

Approach to the Pediatric Patient

1. Fundamental Differences between Children and Adults
2. Developmental Pharmacology
3. General Preoperative Evaluation and Consultative Pediatric Anesthesia
4. Risk Management and Quality Improvement
5. Ethical and Legal Considerations in Pediatric Anesthesia

Clinical and Operational Aspects of Pediatric Anesthesia

6. Anesthetic Equipment and Facilities
7. Management of General Anesthesia
8. Regional Anesthesia
9. Postanesthetic Recovery
10. Pediatric Pain Management
11. Systems-Based Pediatric Anesthesia

Anesthetic Management of Normalities and Abnormalities

12. The Central Nervous System: Pediatric Neuroanesthesia
13. The Eye: Pediatric Ophthalmologic Surgery
14. The Head and Neck: Specialty and Multidisciplinary Surgery
15. The Body Cavity and Wall
16. The Cardiovascular System
17. Gut Development: Surgical and Anesthetic Implications
18. The Foregut and Chest
19. The Midgets
20. The Hindgut
21. Abdominal Tumors
22. The Urogenital System
23. The Musculoskeletal System and Orthopedic Surgery
24. Integumentary System
25. Hematopoietic System
26. Endocrine Disease
27. Neuromuscular Disorders
28. Metabolic Diseases and Inborn Errors of Metabolism

Special Situations in Pediatric Anesthesia

30. Anesthesia for Fetal Surgery
31. Delivery Room Issues and Resuscitation of the Newborn
32. Pediatric Resuscitation
33. Anesthesia for the Preterm Newborn
34. Minimally Invasive Surgery
35. Solid Organ and Bone Marrow Transplantation
36. Anesthesia Outside the Operating Room
37. Trauma and Casualty Management

Index

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