Manual of anaesthesia. /
C. Y. Lee.
- Boston: McGraw Hill, 2006.
- xiii, 884p.: diagrams.; 24cm.
Includes index.
Contents: Introduction: Practical considerations -- Anaesthesia preoperative evaluation clinic -- Premedication round -- Perioperative fluid therapy -- Perioperative blood transfusion -- Perioperative temperature control -- Checking the anaesthetic equipment -- Monitoring in anaesthesia -- Common drugs in anaesthesia -- Post-anaesthesia care unit -- Clinical conditions: Anaesthesia and hypertension -- Coronary artery disease and anaesthesia for non-cardiac surgery -- Anaesthesia in valvular and congenital heart diseases -- Cardiac pacemaker and anaesthesia -- Respiratory disease and anaesthesia -- Anaesthesia and renal disease -- Anaesthesia for patients with liver disease -- Anaesthesia in neuromuscular disease -- Anaesthesia for patients with diabetes mellitus -- Endocrine disease and anaesthesia -- Anaesthesia for patients with connective tissue disorder -- Anaesthesia and obesity -- Management of patients with coagulation disorders -- Prophylaxis againts venous thromboembolism -- Difficult airway management -- Anaesthesia for the trauma patient -- Anaesthesia for patients with thermal injury -- Pediatric and neonatal anaesthesia -- Anaesthesia for the pregnant surgical patient -- Anaesthetic management of preeclampsia -- Anaesthesia and the elderly -- Anaesthesia for specific surgery: Regional anaesthetic techniques I: central neuraxial blockade -- Regional anaesthetic techniques II: neural plexus and nerve blocks -- Anaesthesia for caesarean section -- Epidural analgesia for labour -- Anaesthesia for cardiac surgery -- Anaesthesia for thoracic surgery -- Anaesthesia for vascular surgery -- Anaesthetic for vascular surgery -- Anaesthesia for ear, nose and throat surgery -- Anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery -- Anaesthesia for urological surgery -- Anaesthesia at the radiology department -- Anaesthesia for electroconvulsive therapy -- Anaesthesia for neurosurgery -- Anaesthesia for minimally invasive surgery -- Anaesthesia for long surgical procedures -- Anaesthesia for plastic and reconstructive surgery -- Anaesthesia for day-care surgery -- Anaesthesia for oral and maxillofacial surgery -- Issues in anaesthesia: controlled hypotensive anaesthesia -- Monitored anaesthesia care -- Awareness and depth of anaesthesia monitoring -- Brain death and organ donation -- Autologous blood transfusion -- Low-flow anaesthesia -- Total intravenous anaesthesia -- Acute pain management -- Chronic pain management -- Quality assurance in anaesthesia -- Problems in anaesthesia: Common problems in anaesthesia -- Crisis management: general principles -- Anaphylaxis/Anaphylactoid reactions -- Aspiration of gastric contents -- Bronchospasm -- Intraoperative hypoxia -- Postoperative stridor -- Perioperative cardiac arrhythmias -- Cardiac arrest -- Intraoperative hypotension -- Intraoperative and postoperative hypertension -- Malignant hyperthermia -- Oliguria -- Postoperative alteration in mental status -- Seizures -- Venous air or gas embolism.