Clinical anesthesia procedures of the Massachusetts General Hospital Lippincott

CLINICAL ANESTHESIA PROCEDURES OF THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL

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.

CONTENTS

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

   

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Departament of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts.