Anaesthesia at a Glance

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stone, Julian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Anesthesia.
Anesthesiology.
Anesthesiology
Anesthésie.
Anesthésiologie.
Anesthesia
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • How to use your textbook
  • About the companion website
  • Abbreviations
  • 1: History of anaesthesia
  • First documented anaesthetic
  • Ether and chloroform
  • Anaesthesia as a medical specialty
  • The development and use of local anaesthetics
  • Typical career path in anaesthesia
  • Useful links
  • 2: Monitoring
  • Electrocardiography (ECG)
  • Oximetry
  • Blood pressure (BP) and cardiac output (Figure 5.4)
  • Gas analysis
  • End tidal CO2 (ETCO2) monitoring
  • Airway pressure
  • Central venous pressure (CVP)
  • 3: Equipment
  • Anaesthetic machine
  • Vaporizer
  • Safety features
  • Breathing circuits
  • Laryngoscopes
  • 4: Airway devices
  • Supraglottic devices
  • Simple oral (Guedel) airway
  • Simple nasopharyngeal airway
  • Laryngeal mask airway (Figure 4.2)
  • Infraglottic devices
  • Emergency airway devices
  • 5: Fluid management
  • Fluid compartments
  • Intravenous fluids
  • Fluid prescribing
  • Assessment of fluid status
  • 6: Preoperative preparation of the patient for surgery
  • Timing of surgery
  • Assessment of risk
  • Preoperative assessment clinics
  • History and examination
  • Preoperative tests
  • Perioperative medication
  • Fasting
  • Preoperative care
  • Arrival in theatre
  • 7: Temperature regulation
  • Consequences of hypothermia
  • Monitoring temperature during anaesthesia
  • Maintaining temperature during anaesthesia (Figure 7.3)
  • Postoperative shivering
  • 8: The perioperative patient journey
  • Preoperative stage
  • Intraoperative stage
  • Postoperative stage
  • 9: General anaesthesia
  • inhalational anaesthetics
  • Minimum alveolar concentration (MAC)
  • General effects
  • Isoflurane (Figure 9.1(a))
  • Sevoflurane (Figure 9.1(b))
  • Desflurane (Figure 9.1(c))
  • Halothane (Figure 9.1(d))
  • Nitrous oxide
  • Oxygen
  • Xenon
  • 10: General anaesthesia
  • intravenous anaesthetics
  • Propofol (2,6-diisopropylphenol)
  • Thiopental
  • Benzodiazepines (e.g. midazolam)
  • Ketamine
  • Etomidate
  • 11: Local anaesthetics
  • Uses
  • Mechanism of action
  • Speed of onset of action
  • Duration of action
  • Toxicity
  • Other side effects
  • Eutectic mixture of local anaesthetics (EMLA) and intravenous regional anaesthesia (IVRA)
  • 12: Neuromuscular blocking drugs
  • Depolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs (NMBDs)
  • suxamethonium
  • Non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs
  • Monitoring of muscle paralysis
  • 13: Acute pain
  • Pain management
  • 14: Postoperative nausea and vomiting
  • Mechanism
  • Treatment
  • Drug treatment
  • Non-pharmacological treatment
  • Management
  • 15: Chronic pain
  • Neuropathic pain
  • Chronic back pain
  • Neck pain
  • Fibromyalgia (FMS) and myofascial (MFS) syndromes
  • Headache and facial pain
  • 16: The airway
  • Airway assessment
  • Management of the airway (basic)
  • The expected difficult airway
  • The unexpected difficult airway
  • Unstable neck
  • 17: Emergency anaesthesia

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