Description
For over 40 years, this award-winning textbook has been the core text for anaesthetists new to the specialty and other healthcare professionals involved in perioperative care. Now in its eighth edition, this high quality, clinically relevant resource continues to offer essential reading covering all aspects of anaesthesia in surgery.Covering day-to-day clinical practice in anaesthesia and perioperative medicine, from preoperative assessment and optimisation to clinical anaesthesia and postoperative care, this practical guide also contains an overview of the scientific principles that underpin these practices. It includes topics such as relevant pharmacology and basic physiology; data analysis and statistics; physics; equipment and monitoring; safety and quality assurance; general, regional and local anaesthetic techniques for a full range of surgical specialties. In combining these aspects, it has been an invaluable resource for generations of anaesthetists.Fully updated and now accompanied by ancillary videos, this book is ideal for all trainee anaesthetists including candidates for the Fellowship of Royal College of Anaesthetists and similar examinations.- Highly regarded internationally- Aligned to the FRCA syllabus – including the updated FRCA syllabus references linked to the relevant content of each chapter in the online ebook- Offers clear, concise and practical coverage of all aspects of anaesthesia and perioperative care, including intensive care and chronic pain management- Chapters extensively cross referenced for the reader
Table of Contents
SECTION 1: Basic sciences1. General principles of pharmacology2. Data, statistics and clinical trials3. Inhalational anaesthetic agents and medical gases4. Intravenous anaesthetic and sedative drugs5. Local anaesthetics6. Physiology and pharmacology of pain7. Nausea and vomiting8. Muscle function and neuromuscular block9. Cardiovascular system10. Respiratory system11. Renal system12. Fluid, electrolyte and acid–base balance13. Metabolism, stress responses and thermoregulation14. Blood, coagulation and transfusionSECTION 2: Physics and apparatus15. Basic physics for the anaesthetist16. Anaesthetic apparatus17. Clinical measurement and monitoringSECTION 3: Fundamentals of anaesthesia & perioperative medicine18. Quality and safety in anaesthesia19. Preoperative assessment and preparation20. Intercurrent disease and anaesthesia21. Consent and information for patients22. The practical conduct of anaesthesia23. Airway management24. Pain management25. Local and regional anaesthetic techniques26. Complications during anaesthesia27. Management of critical incidents28. Resuscitation29. Point-of-care ultrasound30. Postoperative and recovery room care31. SustainabilitySECTION 4: Clinical anaesthesia32. Anaesthesia for the older person and/or those living with frailty33. Anaesthesia for the patient with obesity34. Paediatric anaesthesia35. Anaesthesia for day surgery36. Anaesthesia for general, gynaecological and genitourinary surgery37. Anaesthesia for orthopaedic surgery38. Anaesthesia for ear, nose and throat, maxillofacial and dental surgery39. Anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery40. Anaesthesia for vascular, endocrine and plastic surgery41. Anaesthesia for neurosurgery42. Anaesthesia for thoracic surgery43. Anaesthesia for cardiac surgery44. Obstetric anaesthesia45. Emergency and trauma anaesthesia46. Anaesthesia in resource-poor areas47. Anaesthesia outside the operating theatre48. Anaesthesia and organ transplantation49. Intensive care
