Product Details: Handbook of Anesthetic and Perioperative Care
| Author: | David W. Green, Jose Ponte |
| With: | David W. Green |
| Format: | Paperback: 404 pages. |
| Publisher: | W B Saunders Co (04/01/1995) |
| ISBN: | 0702016896 |
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Publisher Notes: Handbook of Anesthetic and Perioperative Care
Preface Pt. 1 Anaesthesia and Perioperative Care 1 Survey of anaesthetic techniques: historical notes 1 2 Principles of pharmacology and autonomic physiology relevant to anaesthesia and intensive care 11 3 Preoperative management: assessment and premedication 52 4 The process of anaesthesia: the doctor's and the patient's perception 80 5 Perioperative fluid management: blood and colloid administration, coagulation disorders 87 6 Perioperative drugs 112 7 Postoperative nausea and vomiting and the stress response to surgery 131 8 The 'nuts and bolts' of anaesthetic machines, tubes, ventilators, infusion pumps and defibrillators 143 9 Practical aspects: airway, drips and chest drains 159 10 Monitoring: blood pressures, cardiac output and electrocardiogram, pulse oximetry, capnography and temperature 181 11 Accidents and complications of anaesthesia and surgery 200 12 Special problems in anaesthesia 210 Pt. 2 Pain Management and Local Analgesic Techniques 13 Approaches to management of acute and chronic pain 235 14 Techniques in regional analgesia 265 Pt. 3 Intensive care 15 What is intensive care? 281 16 Acid-base balance, blood gases and arterial puncture 286 17 Oxygen therapy and oxygen toxicity 298 18 Acute respiratory failure 307 19 Acute circulatory failure: shock and cardiac arrest 318 20 Acute renal failure, temperature disturbances and nutrition 344 21 Head injury, multiple trauma, burns and poisoning 355 Tables of useful values and formulae 375 Glossary 384 Multiple choice questionnaire and answers 387 Further reading 392 Index 393
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