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Clinical Anaesthesia
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2016.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- About the companion website
- Chapter 1 An introduction to anaesthesia
- General anaesthesia
- Local and regional anaesthesia
- Anaesthesia today
- The preoperative assessment
- The anaesthetic assistant
- Physicians' assistant (anaesthesia)
- Immediate postoperative care
- Anaesthetists in critical care
- Anaesthetists in pain management
- Anaesthesia in the future
- Further information
- Chapter 2 Anaesthetic assessment and preparation for surgery
- The preoperative assessment clinic
- Stage 1
- Stage 2
- Stage 3
- The anaesthetic assessment
- Present and past medical history
- Assessment of exercise tolerance
- Other important considerations
- Previous anaesthetics and operations
- Family history
- Drug history and allergies
- Social history
- Assessing the risk of postoperative nausea and vomiting
- The examination
- Cardiovascular system
- Respiratory system
- Nervous system
- Musculoskeletal system
- The airway
- Investigations
- Additional investigations
- The obese patient
- Risks associated with anaesthesia and surgery
- Common (1 in 10 to 1 in 100)
- Uncommon (1 in 1000)
- Rare (<1 in 10 000)
- Risk indicators
- Classification of operation
- Prevention of venous thromboembolism
- Obtaining informed consent
- What is consent?
- What do I have to tell the patient?
- Who should obtain consent?
- What constitutes evidence of consent?
- What about an unconscious patient?
- Further information
- Chapter 3 Anaesthetic equipment and monitoring
- Airway equipment
- Facemasks
- Simple adjuncts
- Supraglottic airway (SGA) devices
- Tracheal tubes
- Laryngoscopes
- Difficult airway trolley
- The safe delivery of anaesthesia
- Delivery of gases to the operating theatre
- The anaesthetic machine
- Ultrasound
- Syringe pumps
- Measurement and monitoring
- Monitoring the patient
- Monitoring the equipment
- Further information
- Chapter 4 Drugs and fluids used during anaesthesia
- Premedication
- Modification of pH and volume of gastric contents
- Analgesia
- Antiemetics
- Miscellaneous
- Intravenous anaesthetic drugs
- Inhaled anaesthetic drugs
- Solubility
- Minimum alveolar concentration
- Nitrous oxide
- Malignant hyperpyrexia (hyperthermia)
- Presentation
- Immediate management
- Investigation of the family
- Anaesthesia for malignant hyperpyrexia-susceptible patients
- Total intravenous anaesthesia
- Neuromuscular blocking drugs
- Depolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs
- Non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs
- Anticholinesterases
- Analgesic drugs
- Opioid analgesics
- Regulation of opioid drugs
- Supply and custody of schedule 2 and certain schedule 3 drugs
- Disposal
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
- Paracetamol
- Alpha-2 adrenoreceptor antagonists