Fundamentals of Perioperative Management

This new title provides a concise, one-stop reference for anaesthetic trainees, surgical trainees and medical undergraduates, on the key topics in modern perioperative patient management, including detailed coverage of the essential physiological and pharmacological principles underlying basic perioperative skills. Essential topics such as antibiotics, fluid balance, DVT prophylaxis, pain management, drug pharmacology and respiratory failure, to name but a few, are all covered in detail, and in each case their effect on perioperative management is emphasised.

Spis treści:
1. Introduction
2. Accidents and complications of anaesthesia and surgery
3. Principles of pharmacology, autonomic physiology and circulatory control relevant to the perioperative period
4. Principles of preoperative assessment, optimisation and management
5. The process of the perioperative period, the patients viewpoint and legal aspects of the perioperative period
6. Perioperative fluid therapy
7. Transfusion medicine in perioperative care
8. Practical procedures and arterial blood-gas analysis in perioperative care
9. Cardiorespiratory and temperature monitoring in the perioperative period
10. Acute pain relief and local anaesthetic techniques
11. Surgical infections and their management
12. The role of ICU/HDU in the mangement of high-risk surgical patients
13. Sepsis, trauma and the acute phase response
14. Principles of nutrition in perioperative medicine
15. Myocardial ischaemia, acute circulatory failure, life support and cardiopulmonary resuscitation
16. Oxygen and oxygen toxicity
17. Acute respiratory failure
18. Gastrointestinal failure
19. Central nervous system
20. Miscellaneous topics
21. Basic statistical concepts and their application in perioperative care.