Bookedited by Jonathan Thompson, Iain Moppett, Matthew Wiles.
Contents:
Section 1: Basic sciences. General principles of pharmacology
Data, statistics and clinical trials
Inhalational anaesthetics and medical gases
Intravenous anaesthetics and sedatives
Local anaesthetics
Pain
Nausea and vomiting
Muscle function and neuromuscular blockade
Cardiovascular system
Respiratory system
Renal system
Fluid, electrolyte and acid-base balance
Metabolism, the stress response and thermoregulation
Blood, coagulation and transfusion
Section 2: Physics and apparatus. Basic physics
Equipment
Clinical measurement and monitoring
Section 3: Fundamentals of anaesthesia & perioperative medicine. Quality and safety
Preoperative assessment
Coexisting disease
Consent and information
The practical conduct of anaesthesia
Airway management
Pain management
Local and regional anaesthesia
Complications
Management of critical incidents
Resuscitation
Postoperative care
Section 4: Clinical anaesthesia. The high-risk surgical patient
The older surgical patient
The obese patient
Paediatric anaesthesia
Day surgery
General, gynaecological and genitourinary surgery
Orthopaedic surgery
ENT, maxillofacial and dental surgery
Ophthalmic surgery
Vascular, endocrine and plastic surgery
Neurosurgery
Thoracic surgery
Cardiac surgery
Obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia
Emergency and trauma surgery
Anaesthesia in low and middle-income areas
Anaesthesia outside the operating theatre
Organ transplantation
Intensive care medicine.