Anesthesia Secrets

Description

For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Anesthesia Secrets, 6th Edition offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in the practice of anesthesiology. This bestselling resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style – making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable. Top 100 Secrets 1: Fundamentals of Anesthetic Care Chapter 1: Introduction to anesthesia Chapter 2: Pre-operative evaluation Chapter 3: Airway management Chapter 4: Autonomic nervous system Chapter 5: Cardiac physiology Chapter 6: Pulmonary physiology Chapter 7: Arterial blood gas analysis Chapter 8: Volume regulation and fluid replacement Chapter 9: Electrolytes Chapter 10: Coagulation Chapter 11: Transfusion therapy Chapter 12: Perioperative patient safety Chapter 13: Perioperative medical ethics 2: Pharmacology Chapter 14: Inhaled anesthetics Chapter 15: Intravenous anesthetics Chapter 16: Opioids Chapter 17: Neuromuscular blocking agents Chapter 18: Local anesthetics Chapter 19: Vasoactive agents 3: Patient Monitoring and Procedures Chapter 20: Pulse oximetry Chapter 21: Capnography Chapter 22: Blood pressure monitoring and arterial catheterization Chapter 23: Central venous catheterization Chapter 24: Perioperative point-of-care ultrasound and echocardiography Chapter 25: Volume assessment Chapter 26: The anesthesia machine Chapter 27: Mechanical ventilation strategies Chapter 28: Electrocardiogram Chapter 29: Pacemakers and internal cardioverter defibrillators 4: Perioperative Problems Chapter 30: Blood pressure disturbances Chapter 31: Pulmonary complications Chapter 32: Awareness during anesthesia Chapter 33: Temperature disturbances Chapter 34: Post-anesthetic care 5: Anesthesia and Select Systemic Disease Chapter 35: Coronary artery disease and perioperative myocardial infarction Chapter 36: Heart failure Chapter 37: Valvular heart disease Chapter 38: Pulmonary hypertension Chapter 39: Obstructive lung disease: asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Chapter 40: Acute respiratory distress syndrome Chapter 41: Hepatic dysfunction and liver transplantation Chapter 42: Renal function and anesthesia Chapter 43: Intracranial and cerebrovascular disease Chapter 44: Intracranial hypertension and traumatic brain injury Chapter 45: Malignant hyperthermia and other myopathies Chapter 46: Degenerative neurological diseases and neuropathies Chapter 47: Diabetes mellitus Chapter 48: Nondiabetic endocrine disease Chapter 49: Obesity and obstructive sleep apnea Chapter 50: Alcohol and substance abuse 6: Anesthesia and Select Patient Populations Chapter 51: Neonatal anesthesia Chapter 52: Pediatric anesthesia Chapter 53: Congenital heart disease Chapter 54: Fundamentals of obstetric anesthesia Chapter 55: Obstetric analgesia and anesthesia Chapter 56: High-risk obstetrics Chapter 57: Trauma anesthesia Chapter 58: The burned patient Chapter 59: Geriatric anesthesia 7: Anesthesia and Select Surgical Procedures Chapter 60: Laparoscopic surgery Chapter 61: Major vascular surgery Chapter 62: Cardiac surgery: cardiopulmonary bypass Chapter 63: Thoracic surgery: lung isolation techniques Chapter 64: Spine surgery Chapter 65: Craniotomy Chapter 66: Shoulder operations Chapter 67: Electroconvulsive therapy 8: Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management Chapter 68: Fundamentals of regional anesthesia Chapter 69: Peripheral nerve and trunk blocks Chapter 70: Nerve blocks for the head and neck Chapter 71: Neuraxial anesthesia and analgesia Chapter 72: Acute pain management Chapter 73: Chronic pain management