Booksenior editor, Wilton C. Levine ; associate editors, Rae M. Allain ... [et al.].
Contents:
Part I: Evaluating the patient before anesthesia
Evaluating the patient before anesthesia / Alla Tauber and Mary Kraft
Specific considerations with cardiac disease / Shahzad Shaefi and Hovig V. Chitilian
Specific considerations with pulmonary disease / Stephanie C. Cintora and Kenneth E. Shepherd
Specific considerations with renal disease / Rafael Vazquez and William Benedetto
Specific considerations with liver disease / Salomon M. Maya and Wilton C. Levine
Specific considerations with endocrine disease / Anne M. Drewry, Robert A. Peterfreund, and Stephanie L. Lee
Infectious diseases and infection control in anesthesia / Shahzad Shaefi and Ulrich Schmidt
Part II: Administration of anesthesia
Safety in anesthesia / Sara N. Goldhaber-Fiebert and Jeffrey B. Cooper
The anesthesia machine / Andrew R. Vaclavik and Greg Ginsburg
Monitoring / Jennifer Chatburn and Warren S. Sandberg
Intravenous and inhalation anesthetics / Claudia Benkwitz and Ken Solt
Neuromuscular blockade / Oleg V. Evgenov and Peter F. Dunn
Airway evaluation and management / Cosmin Gauran and Peter F. Dunn
Administration of general anesthesia / Victor A. Chin and Stuart A. Forman
Local anesthetics / Maryam Jowza and Rebecca D. Minehart
Spinal, epidural, and caudal anesthesia / Jason M. Lewis and May C. M. Pian-Smith
Regional anesthesia / Keith Fragoza and Lisa Warren
Intra-anesthetic problems / Jonathan D. Bloom and Keith Baker
Perioperative hemodynamic control / Brian T. Bateman and Vilma E. Ortiz
Anesthesia for abdominal surgery / Emily A. Singer and John J. A. Marota
Anesthesia for thoracic surgery / Junichi Naganuma and Paul H. Alfille
Anesthesia for vascular surgery / M. Richard Pavao and Edward A. Bittner
Anesthesia for cardiac surgery / Ethan Small and Jason Zhensheng Qu
Anesthesia for neurosurgery / Scott A. LeGrand and Michele Szabo
Anesthesia for head and neck surgery / Brian D. Cauley and Deborah S. Pederson
Anesthesia for urologic surgery / Kris C. Lukauskis and William R. Kimball
Anesthesia for geriatric patients / Zhongcong Xie and Christine Finer
Anesthesia for surgical emergencies in the neonate / James Y. Ko ... [et al.]
Anesthesia for pediatric surgery / Susan A. Vassallo and LIsbeth L. Pappas
Anesthesia for obstetrics and gynecology / Amy Ortman and Lisa Leffert
Ambulatory anesthesia / Christopher J. Hodge and LIsa Wollman
Anesthesia outside of the operating room / Thomas J. Graetz and John J. A. Marota
Anesthesia for trauma and burns / Vikram Kumar and Keith Baker
Transfusion therapy / Shubha V. Y. Raju and Jonathan E. Charnin
Part III: Perioperative issues
The postanesthesia care unit / Asheesh Kumar and Edward E. George
Perioperative respiratory failure / Michael R. Shaughnessy and Luca M. Bigatello
Adult, pediatric, and newborn resuscitation / Richard M. Pino, Bradley E. Randel, and Arthur J. Tokarcyzk
Pain / Karsten Bartels and James P. Rathmell
Complementary and alternative medicine / Margaret A. Gargarian and P. Grace Harrell
Ethical and end-of-life issues / Sheri Berg and Rae M. Allain
Appendix A: supplemental drug information / Bishr Haydar.