Daniel Cottle, Laha Shondipon

Anaesthetics for Junior Doctors and Allied Professionals

The Essential Guide

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This guide provides practical and clinically relevant advice in easily understandable sections to give you confidence and prepare you for your days in theatre à â â without the complicated physiology, pharmacology and physics. It allows you to understand the most common drugs and provides a rationale for using them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 175mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781846195518
• ISBN-10: 1846195519
• Artikelnr.: 39897416

Autorenporträt

Daniel Cottle, Laha Shondipon

Inhaltsangabe

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.