Description
Book SynopsisYearbook of Anesthesiology - 9 is an up-to-date guide to the latest advances in anaesthesiology practice.
Comprising 25 chapters covering all three specialties associated with anaesthesiology – regional and general anaesthesia, pain, and intensive care - this book presents the most recent information in the field, in a concise and highly illustrated format.
The book covers the complete field from techniques and post-surgical recovery, to pharmacology, non-technical skills and medicolegal issues.
This new volume features chapters on anaesthetic issues in the management of elderly or paediatric patients; the status of platelet rich plasma in chronic pain conditions and degenerative diseases; and double lumen endotracheal tubes and gas embolism.
The final chapter of the book - Journal Scan – covers recent articles published in respected journals, accompanied by reviews and interpretations by experts in the field.
Key points
- Up-to-date guide to latest advances in anaesthesiology
- In depth coverage of all three sub-specialties – regional and general anaesthesia, pain, and intensive care
- Features new topics including management of elderly or paediatric patients; the status of platelet rich plasma in chronic pain conditions and degenerative diseases; and double lumen endotracheal tubes and gas embolism
- Includes recent journal articles with reviews and interpretations by experts in the field
Table of Contents
- Errors in Medicine: A Perioperative Perspective
- Perioperative Care of the Frail Elderly: Current Knowledge and Future Directions
- Pregnancy-induced Hypertension: An Update
- Sugammadex and Beyond
- Issues and Management of Obese Parturient
- Postoperative Delirium: A Bane of Daycare Surgery
- Gas Embolism: An Update
- Nutrition in the Intensive Care Unit
- Smartphones in Anesthesia: Game Changers or Mere Distractions?
- Health Hazards for an Anesthesiologist: A Myth or Reality?
- Effect of Anesthesia on the Developing Brain:A Review of Recent Evidence
- Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation
- Intraoperative Thermoregulation
- Platelet-rich Plasma for Management of Chronic Pain and Degenerative Conditions: A Critical Review of Evidence
- Postoperative Myocardial Injury: Causes and Management
- Management of Hyperglycemia in the Perioperative Period
- Challenges and Issues in Daycare Arthroplasty
- Anesthesia for Neurovascular Procedures
- High-flow Nasal Oxygenation: A Fad?
- Double-lumen Endotracheal Tubes: From History to Present and the Future
- High-altitude Pulmonary Edema
- Infection Prevention in the Operating Room
- Regional Blocks for Shoulder Surgery: Sparing the Phrenic Nerve
- Current Status of Methylene Blue in Anesthesia and Intensive Care
- Journal Scan
