Full Description
Yearbook of Anesthesiology - 9 is an up-to-date guide to the latest advances in anaesthesiology practice.
Comprising 25 chapters covering all three specialties associated with anaesthesiology - regional and general anaesthesia, pain, and intensive care - this book presents the most recent information in the field, in a concise and highly illustrated format.
The book covers the complete field from techniques and post-surgical recovery, to pharmacology, non-technical skills and medicolegal issues.
This new volume features chapters on anaesthetic issues in the management of elderly or paediatric patients; the status of platelet rich plasma in chronic pain conditions and degenerative diseases; and double lumen endotracheal tubes and gas embolism.
The final chapter of the book - Journal Scan - covers recent articles published in respected journals, accompanied by reviews and interpretations by experts in the field.
Key points
Up-to-date guide to latest advances in anaesthesiology
In depth coverage of all three sub-specialties - regional and general anaesthesia, pain, and intensive care
Features new topics including management of elderly or paediatric patients; the status of platelet rich plasma in chronic pain conditions and degenerative diseases; and double lumen endotracheal tubes and gas embolism
Includes recent journal articles with reviews and interpretations by experts in the field
Contents
Errors in Medicine: A Perioperative Perspective
Perioperative Care of the Frail Elderly: Current Knowledge and Future Directions
Pregnancy-induced Hypertension: An Update
Sugammadex and Beyond
Issues and Management of Obese Parturient
Postoperative Delirium: A Bane of Daycare Surgery
Gas Embolism: An Update
Nutrition in the Intensive Care Unit
Smartphones in Anesthesia: Game Changers or Mere Distractions?
Health Hazards for an Anesthesiologist: A Myth or Reality?
Effect of Anesthesia on the Developing Brain:A Review of Recent Evidence
Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation
Intraoperative Thermoregulation
Platelet-rich Plasma for Management of Chronic Pain and Degenerative Conditions: A Critical Review of Evidence
Postoperative Myocardial Injury: Causes and Management
Management of Hyperglycemia in the Perioperative Period
Challenges and Issues in Daycare Arthroplasty
Anesthesia for Neurovascular Procedures
High-flow Nasal Oxygenation: A Fad?
Double-lumen Endotracheal Tubes: From History to Present and the Future
High-altitude Pulmonary Edema
Infection Prevention in the Operating Room
Regional Blocks for Shoulder Surgery: Sparing the Phrenic Nerve
Current Status of Methylene Blue in Anesthesia and Intensive Care
Journal Scan
