Basics of anesthesia /
Manuel Pardo, Ronald D. Miller
- First South Asia Edition
- xv, 868 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) 1 online resource
Preceded by Basics of anesthesia / Ronald D. Miller, Manuel C. Pardo Jr. 6th ed. c2011
Scope of anesthesia practice Learning anesthesia Anesthesia and health information technology Basic pharmacologic principles Clinical cardiac and pulmonary physiology Autonomic nervous system Inhaled anesthetics Intravenous anesthetics Opioids Local anesthetics Neuromuscular blocking drugs Anesthetic neurotoxicity Preoperative evaluation and medication Choice of anesthetic technique Anesthesia delivery systems Airway management Spinal, epidural, and caudal anesthesia Peripheral nerve blocks Patient positioning and associated risks Anesthetic monitoring Acid-base balance and blood gas analysis Hemostasis Fluid management Blood therapy Cardiovascular disease Congenital heart disease Chronic pulmonary disease and thoracic anesthesia Renal, liver, and biliary tract disease Nutritional, gastrointestinal, and endocrine disease Central nervous system disease Ophthalmology and otolaryngology Orthopedic surgery Obstetrics Pediatrics Elderly patients Organ transplantation Outpatient anesthesia Anesthesia for procedures in non-operating room locations Postanesthesia recovery Perioperative pain management Critical care medicine Anesthesia for trauma Human-induced and natural disasters Chronic pain management Cardiopulmonary resuscitation Operating room management Awareness under anesthesia Quality and patient safety in anesthesia care Palliative care Sleep medicine and anesthesia New models of anesthesia care : perioperative medicine, the perioperative surgical home, and population health
With the most authoritative and complete overview of anesthesia theory and practice, the latest edition of of this book, edited by noted anesthesiologist Ronald D. Miller, MD and Manuel C. Pardo, Jr., MD, continues to serve as an primer on the scope and practice of anesthesiology. Widely acknowledged as the foremost introductory text, the new edition-now presented in full color throughout-has been thoroughly updated to reflect new and rapidly changing areas in anesthesia practice including new chapters on awareness under anesthesia, quality and patient safety, orthopedics, and expanded coverage of new ultrasound techniques in regional anesthesiology with detailed illustrated guidance. Discover the newest in anesthesiology with rigorously updated chapters and the addition of appropriate new chapters on important emerging topics such as awareness under anesthesia; quality and patient safety; orthopedics; and expanded coverage of new ultrasound techniques in regional anesthesiology. Clear and concise information written by a known anesthesiologist in the world, Dr. Ronald Miller, and a new co-editor Dr. Manuel Pardo, makes difficult concepts easier to understand