Relied on for over 30 years by resident and practicing anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists, this best-selling pocket reference is now in its Eighth Edition. In an easy-to-scan outline format, it provides current, comprehensive, concise, consistent, and clinically relevant guidelines for anesthesia, perioperative care, critical care, and pain management. The book has been written, reviewed, updated, and field-tested by the internationally recognized Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

I: EVALUATING THE PATIENT BEFORE ANESTHESIA

• 1: Evaluating the Patient Before Anesthesia
Alla Tauber & Mary Kraft
• 2: Specific Considerations with Cardiac Disease
Shahzad Shaefi & Hovig V. Chitilian
• 3: Specific Considerations with Pulmonary Disease
• Stephanie C. Cintora & Kenneth E. Shepherd

• 4: Specific Considerations with Renal Disease
Rafael Vazquez & William Benedetto
• 5: Specific Considerations with Liver Disease
Salomon M. Maya & Wilton C. Levine
• 6: Specific Considerations with Endocrine Disease
Anne M. Drewry, Robert A. Peterfreund & Stephanie L. Lee
• 7: Infectious Diseases and Infection Control in Anesthesia
• Shahzad Shaefi & Ulrich Schmidt

  II: ADMINISTRATION OF ANESTHESIA

• 8: Safety in Anesthesia
• Sara N. Goldhaber-Fiebert & Jeffrey B. Cooper

• 9: The Anesthesia Machine
• Andrew R. Vaclavik & Greg Ginsburg

• 10: Monitoring
• Jennifer Chatburn & Warren S. Sandberg

• 11: Intravenous and Inhalation Anesthetics
• Claudia Benkwitz & Ken Solt

• 12: Neuromuscular Blockade
Oleg V. Evgenov & Peter F. Dunn
• 13: Airway Evaluation and Management
Cosmin Gauran & Peter F. Dunn
• 14: Administration of General Anesthesia
Stuart A. Forman & Victor Chin
• 15: Local Anesthetics
Maryam Jowza & Rebecca D. Minehart
• 16: Spinal, Epidural, and Caudal Anesthesia
Jason Lewis & May C.M. Pian-Smith
• 17: Regional Anesthesia
• Keith Fragoza & Lisa Warren

• 18: Intra-anesthetic Problems
Jonathan Bloom & Keith Baker
• 19: Perioperative Hemodynamic Control
Brian T. Bateman & Vilma E. Ortiz
• 20: Anesthesia for Abdominal Surgery
Emily A. Apsell & John J.A. Marota
• 21: Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery
Junichi Naganuma & Paul H. Alfille
• 22: Anesthesia for Vascular Surgery
M. Richard Pavao & Edward A. Bittner
• 23: Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery
Ethan Small & Jason Qu
• 24: Anesthesia for Neurosurgery
Scott A. LeGrand & Michele Szabo
• 25: Anesthesia for Head and Neck Surgery Brian D. Cauley & Deborah S. Pederson

• 26: Anesthesia for Urologic Surgery
Kris C. Lukauskis & William R. Kimball
• 27: Anesthesia for Geriatric Patients
Zhongcong Xie & Christine Finer
• 28: Anesthesia for Surgical Emergencies in the Neonate/LI> James Y. Ko, Lisa N. Charo, Jonathan H. Cronin & Jesse D. Roberts, Jr.

• 29: Anesthesia for Pediatric Surgery
Susan A. Vassallo & Lisbeth L. Pappas
• 30: Anesthesia for Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ritu Kapoor, Jeannie C. Min & Lisa Leffert
• 31: Ambulatory Anesthesia
Christopher Hodge & Lisa Wollman
• 32: Anesthesia Outside of the Operating Room
• Thomas J. Graetz & John J.A. Marota

• 33: Anesthesia for Trauma and Burns
Vikram Kumar & Keith Baker
• 34: Transfusion Therapy
Jonathan E. Charnin & Shubha V. Raju

III: PERIOPERATIVE ISSUES

• 35: The Postanesthesia Care Unit
Asheesh Kumar & Ed George
• 36: Perioperative Respiratory Failure
Michael R. Shaughnessy & Luca M. Bigatello
• 37: Adult, Pediatric, and Newborn Resuscitation
Richard M. Pino, Bradley E. Randel & Arthur J. Tokarcyzk
• 38: Pain
• Karsten Bartels & James P. Rathmell

• 39: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Margaret Gargarian & P. Grace Harrell

• 40: Ethical and End-of-Life Issues
Sheri Berg & Rae M. Allain

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