Product Description: Evidence-Based Practice of Anesthesiology, 2nd Edition, by Lee A. Fleisher, MD, summarizes the best available evidence concerning the most common clinical questions that anesthesiologists face every day, so you will have an informed basis for making effective patient management decisions. This new edition covers 24 new topics and explores a full range of important issues in perioperative management-discussing the clinical options, examining the relevant research, and presenting expert recommendations. It features the latest information on clinical situations and reviews all clinical options based on the most recent clinical trials, providing a valuable framework for translating evidence into practice. As an Expert Consult title it includes convenient online access to the complete contents of the book-fully searchable-along with all of the images downloadable for your personal use, and references linked to Medline at www.expertconsult.com.
Explores key topics such as preoperative preparation, perioperative management, regional anesthesia, monitoring, cardiovascular anesthesia, neurosurgical anesthesia, obstetrical anesthesia, pediatric anesthesia, and pain,
Uses a practical, consistent format in each chapter, providing an overview of the question under discussion...an outline of the available management options...a review of the relevant evidence...identification of areas of uncertainty...a summary of existing management guidelines...and the author's recommendations.
Provides tables that summarize the available literature as well as the recommended clinical approaches at a glance.
Covers routine care as well as complicated and special situations to prepare you for a full range of challenges.
Features anytime, anywhere online access to the complete contents of the book, text and images, along with references linked to Medline, at www.expertconsult.com.
Provides the latest information on clinical situations and reviews all clinical options based on the most recent clinical trials, to provide a valuable framework for translating evidence into practice.
Presents coverage of 24 new topics including use of ultrasound guidance for regional anesthesia, effectiveness of preoperative clinics, perioperative brain protection and risk factors for perioperative stroke, optimal postoperative analgesia, and many others to help you keep you up to date.
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More than just a Board review for USMLE Steps 2 and 3, Blueprints Psychiatry, Fourth Edition can help you during clerkship rotations and subinternship. This popular Blueprints book has been refined and updated while keeping the concise, organized style and clinical high-yield content of previous editions. Features include USMLE-style questions and answers with full explanations; Key Points in every section; and a color-enhanced design that increases the usefulness of figures and tables. This edition has more questions and answers and greater coverage of pediatric and geriatric disorders. Each chapter ends with evidence-based references (journals) for students to do additional reading/research.
Product Description: This pocketcard Set contains the most important information on pain management: * Guidelines on the assessment and management of pain * Breakthrough pain management and rescue dosing * Opioid equianalgesic dosing table * Management of opioid-related adverse events
Product Description: Yale Univ., New Haven, CT. Pocket handbook is divided into two sections. First section takes the reader through the perioperative period as well as postoperative care. Several sections have been added on herbal medication. The second section includes appendices containing formulas, an ECG atlas, drug lists, and more. Previous edition: c1997. Softcover. DNLM: Anesthesia--Hdbks
The most widely used clinical reference in cardiac anesthesia, this large handbook provides complete information on drugs, monitoring, cardiopulmonary bypass, circulatory support, and anesthetic management of specific cardiac disorders. It incorporates clinically relevant basic science into a practical "what-to-do" approach and is written in an easy-to-read outline format. This edition has a new chapter on surgical ventricular restoration, LV aneurysm, and CHF-related surgical procedures. Chapters provide increased coverage of postoperative atrial fibrillation prevention and treatment, drugs in perioperative risk reduction, and the role of inhalational anesthetics in organ protection via anesthetic preconditioning. This edition also has a revamped art program.
Product Description: Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Clinician's reference based on practice by Massachusetts General Hospital and Children's Hospital, Boston. 22 Contributors. DNLM: Anesthesia - in infancy and childhood.
Prepared by the faculty of the National Emergency Airway Management Course, this manual is an expert, practical guide to emergency airway management in any adult or pediatric patient. It offers step-by-step instructions on techniques, drug administration, and prevention and management of complications and includes a complete section on difficult clinical scenarios. The book is packed with easy-to-follow algorithms and diagrams and helpful mnemonics. Each of the Third Edition's chapters includes improved full-color illustrations and updated evidence-based analyses of procedures. A new section geared to the prehospital setting presents current National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians guidelines, including alternative airway devices.
Product Description: The updated fourth edition of this comprehensive, highly respected reference covers all you need to know about obstetric anesthesia-from basic science to various anesthesia techniques to complications. The editorial team of leading authorities in the field now features Drs. Linda S. Polley, Lawrence C. Tsen, and Cynthia A. Wong and presents the latest on anesthesia techniques for labor and delivery and medical disorders that occur during pregnancy. This edition features two new chapters and rewritten versions of key chapters such as Epidural and Spinal Analgesia and Anesthesia. And, Expert Consult functionality allows you to access the entire contents of the book online.
Emphasizes the treatment of the fetus and the mother as separate patients with distinct needs to ensure the application of modern principles of care.
Delivers contributions from many leaders in the fields of obstetric anesthesia and maternal-fetal medicine from all over the world.
Offers abundant figures, tables, and boxes that illustrate the step-by-step management of a full range of clinical scenarios.
Presents key point summaries in each chapter for quick, convenient reference.
Features new chapters on Patient Safety and Maternal Mortality to address the latest developments in the field and keep you current.
Presents completely rewritten chapters on Epidural and Spinal Analgesia and Anesthesia, Anesthesia for Cesarean Section, and Hypertension Disorders, updated by new members of the editorial team-Drs. Linda S. Polley, Lawrence C. Tsen, and Cynthia A. Wong, for state-of-the-art coverage of key topics and new insights.
Covers all the latest guidelines and protocols for safe and effective practice so you can offer your patients the very best.
Allows you to access the entire contents of the book online, from any internet connection through Expert Consult.
Your purchase entitles you to access the web site until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. If the next edition is published less than one year after your purchase, you will be entitled to online access for one year from your date of purchase. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should online access to the web site be discontinued.
Keyed to the newly revised and updated Sixth Edition of Barash, Cullen, Stoelting, Cahalan and Stock's Clinical Anesthesia, this comprehensive review book is an excellent study tool for preparing for written and oral board exams. It contains over 1,000 questions following the format of the actual exams, with answers and succinct, clearly written explanations. The chapters in the review book correspond to the chapters in Clinical Anesthesia, Sixth Edition. The page number in the textbook where more detailed information can be found is cited in the answer to each question. A companion Website will offer an online question bank for easier self-study. "Doody's Core Titles 2009."
Dr. Stoelting's best-selling and highly acclaimed text, Pharmacology and Physiology in Anesthetic Practice, is now in its thoroughly updated Fourth Edition. In 60 concise, clearly written chapters, this book provides comprehensive, current, clinically oriented, authoritative information on all aspects of pharmacology and physiology that are relevant to perioperative patient management. This edition includes all new drugs and new findings on actions and interactions of established drugs. More than 400 diagrams and more than 100 tables complement the text. This edition's new two-color page design will help readers spot key information. A separate drug index is included for quick reference. "Doody's Core Titles 2009."