Clinical Anesthesia

Part 1 Introduction to anaesthesia practice: anaesthesia as a specialty - past, present & future, Rod K. Calvery and Mark Scheller; contemporary anaesthesia practice and quality assurance, John H. Eichhorn; research design and statistics, Nathan Leon Pace; hazards of working in the operating room, Arnold J. Berry and Jonathan D. Katz; medicolegal aspects of anaesthetic practice, Donald A. Kroll and Frederick W. Cheney. Part 2 Basic principles of anaesthesia practice: mechanisms of general anaesthesia, James J. Richter; physics applied to anaesthesia, Steven J. Barker and Kevin K. Tremper; electrical safety, Jan Ehrenwerth; fluids and electrolytes, Gary P. Zaloga and Donald S. Prough; acid-base balance, Howard Smith and Philip D. Lumb; hemostasis and hemotherapy, Norig Ellison; parental nutrition, B. Skeie, et al. Part 3 Basic principles of pharmacology in anaesthesia practice: basic principles of clinical pharmacology, Robert J. Hudson; autonomic nervous system physiology and pharmacology, Noel W. Lawson; nonopioid intravenous anaesthetic, Robert J. Fragen and Michael J. Avram; opioids, Michael R. Murphy; inhalation anaesthesia, Wendell C. Steven and Harry G.G. Kingston; biochemical and toxicological aspects of the volatile anaesthetics, Max T. Baker and Russell A. Van Dyke; muscle relaxants, David R. Bevan and Francois Donati; local anaesthetics, Randall C. Carpenter and David C. Mackey. Part 4 Preparing for anaesthesia: evaluation of the patient and preoperative preparation, C. Phillip Lawson, Jr; rare and coexisting diseases, Stephen F. Dierdorf; pharmacogenetics, Henry Rosenberg, et al; preoperative medication, John R. Moyers; anaesthesia systems, J. Jeff Andres; management of the airway, Linda C. Stehling; patient positioning, John T. Martin; monitoring the anaesthetized patient, Hugh C. Gilbert and Jeffrey S. Vender; electrocardiography, James R. Zaidan. Part 5 Management of anaesthesia: epidural and spinal anaesthesia, Benjamin G. Covino and Donald H. Lambert; peripheral nerve blockade, Michael F. Mulroy; neurophysiology and neuroanaesthesia, Audree A. Bendo, et al; respiratory function and anaesthesia, M. Christine Stock and Ronald A. Harrison; anaesthesia for thoracic surgery, James B. Eisenkraft, et al; cardiovascular anatomy and physiology, Carol L. Lake; anaesthesia for cardiac surgery, Doreen L. Wray, et al; anaesthesia for vascular surgery, Michael F. Roizen and John E. Ellis; anaesthesia and the eye, Kathryn E. McGoldrick. part contents.