Abstract:
This internationally renowned textbook is essential for trainee anaesthetists and candidates for the Fellowship of Royal College of Anaesthetists exams -- offers comprehensive coverage of anaesthesia, critical care, pain management, and perioperative care -- invaluable during early training and exam preparation -- the Seventh Edition includes essential material on safety, quality assurance, consent, resuscitation, intensive care, pre-hospital care, and chronic pain management. -- Provided by Publisher
Description:
2250 pages: Illustrations; 27cm || Includes bibliographical references and Index. || CONTENTS: 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
