1st Edition
Anaesthetics for Junior Doctors and Allied Professionals The Essential Guide
248 Pages
by
CRC Press
248 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Arriving in the anaesthetic room for the first time can be a daunting experience. You will be closely supervised, but everything will seem very new. Surgery is a stressful life-event for the patient and your job as an anaesthetist is to make it as safe and as comfortable as you can whilst ensuring the best outcome possible. Anaesthesia is no longer the preserve of the medical anaesthetist. It... Read more
Foreword. Preface. List of contributors. Acknowledgement. The fundamental principles of anaesthesia. A very brief history of anaesthesia. The anaesthetic day. Pre-operative assessment and investigations. Intra-operative patient monitoring. The anaesthetic machine. Anaesthetic breathing systems. Ventilation. Airway assessment. Airway management. Basic patient positioning. Recovery, handover and protocols. Postoperative analgesia. Drugs that put you to sleep. Drugs to keep you asleep: the inhalational agents. Muscle relaxants. Drugs that stop you vomiting. Emergency drugs. NCEPOD catagories and anaesthetic implications. The pregnant patient. The obese patient. The cardiac patient presenting for non-cardiac surgery. The patient with respiratory disease. Paediatric anaesthesia. Day case surgery and anaesthesia. Transferring the anaesthetised patient. Regional anaesthesia. Stridor. Anaphylaxis. Major haemorrhage. Rapid Sequence induction at a remote site. Asthma and anaesthesia. Management of a patient with suspected anaphylaxis during anaesthesia. Checklist for anaesthetic equipment. Management of severe local anaesthetic toxicity. Guidelines for the management of a malignant hyperthermia crisis. Index.
Biography
Daniel Cottle, Laha Shondipon
