Anaesthesia at a Glance

Spis treści:
Equipment and monitoring.
1. History of Anaesthesia.
2. Equipment I.
3. Equipment II.
4. Airway devices.
5. Physics.
6. Fluid management.
7. Preoperative preparation of patient for surgery.
8. Temperature regulation.
Drugs.
9. General Anaesthesia – the patient journey.
10. General Anaesthesia – inhalational anaesthetics.
11. General Anaesthesia – intravenous anaesthetics.
12. Local Anaesthetics.
13. Muscle relaxants.
14. Acute Pain.
15. Postoperative nausea and vomiting.
16. Chronic Pain.
Clinical Anaesthesia.
17. Airway.
18. Emergency Anaesthesia.
19. Obstetrics Anaesthesia.
20. Ophthalmic Anaesthesia.
21. Paediatric Anaesthesia.
22. Cardiac and Thoracic Anaesthesia.
23. Regional Anaesthesia.
24. Anaesthetic Emergencies.
25. Anaesthetic Emergencies II.
26. Trauma and orthopaedics.
27. Anaesthesia and obesity.
28. Anaesthesia and old age.
29. Anaesthesia and the diabetes.
30. Anaesthesia for vascular surgery.
31. Anaesthesia for ENT/Maxillofacial surgey.
32. Awareness.
33. Anaesthesia for ECT, dental work and special needs.
34. Postoperative management – analgesia, fluids, referral to HDU/ITU, scoring systems for ward patients.
35. Field Anaesthesia (ie in the community (RTA etc) and Battle scenarios/triage etc.
Glossary of key terms.
Self–assessment MCQs and Case Studies.
Index

Nota biograficzna:
Dr Julian Stone is a consultant anaesthetist at the Great Western Hospital, Swindon