Smith and Aitkenhead's Textbook of Anaesthesia

Description:
For over 40 years, this award-winning textbook has been the core text for anaesthetists new to the specialty and other healthcare professionals involved in perioperative care. Now in its eighth edition, this high quality, clinically relevant resource continues to offer essential reading covering all aspects of anaesthesia in surgery.

Covering day-to-day clinical practice in anaesthesia and perioperative medicine, from preoperative assessment and optimisation to clinical anaesthesia and postoperative care, this practical guide also contains an overview of the scientific principles that underpin these practices. It includes topics such as relevant pharmacology and basic physiology; data analysis and statistics; physics; equipment and monitoring; safety and quality assurance; general, regional and local anaesthetic techniques for a full range of surgical specialties. In combining these aspects, it has been an invaluable resource for generations of anaesthetists.

Fully updated and now accompanied by ancillary videos, this book is ideal for all trainee anaesthetists including candidates for the Fellowship of Royal College of Anaesthetists and similar examinations.

Features:

• Highly regarded internationally
• Aligned to the FRCA syllabus – including the updated FRCA syllabus references linked to the relevant content of each chapter in the online ebook
• Offers clear, concise and practical coverage of all aspects of anaesthesia and perioperative care, including intensive care and chronic pain management
• Chapters extensively cross referenced for the reader

New To This Edition:

• All chapters revised and updated, many with new contributing authors
• New chapters on environmental sustainability and point-of-care ultrasound
• Considerations related to airway management related to pandemic viral infections such as COVID-19
• Inclusion of new pharmacokinetic models for TIVA
• Updated sections on infection prevention and control, ECMO, newer modes of renal replacement therapy and post-intensive care syndrome
• Anaesthesia for specific, common cardiac procedures
• Considerations relevant to robotic surgery
• New videos in the Point of Care Ultrasound chapter

Table Of Contents:

Section 1 Basic Sciences

1. General principles of pharmacology

2. Data, statistics and clinical trials

3. Inhalational anaethestic agents

4. Intravenous anaesthetic and sedative agents

5. Local anaesthetic agents

6. Pain

7. Nausea and vomiting

8. Muscle function and neuromuscular blockade

9. Cardiovascular system

10. Respiratory system

11. Renal system

12. Fluid, electrolyte and acid-base balance

13. Endocrine System

14. Blood, coagulation and transfusion

Section 2 Physics and Apparatus

15. Basic physics for the anaesthetist

16. Anaesthetic apparatus

17. Clinical measurement and monitoring

Section 3 Fundamentals of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

18. Quality and safety in anaesthesia

19. Preoperative assessment and premedication/preparation

20. Intercurrent disease and anaesthesia

21. Consent and information for patients

22. The practical conduct of anaesthesia

23. Airway management

24. Pain Management

25. Local and regional anaesthetic techniques

26. Complications during anaesthesia

27. Management of critical incidents

28. Resuscitation

29. Point-of-care ultrasound

30. Post-operative and recovery room care

31. Sustainability

Section 4 Clinical Anaesthesia

32. Anaesthesia for the elderly and/or frail patient

33. Anaesthesia for the bariatric patient

34. Paediatric anaesthesia

35. Anaesthesia for daycase surgery

36. Anaesthesia for general, gynaecological and genitourinary surgery

37. Anaesthesia for orthopaedic surgery

38. Anaesthesia for ENT, maxillofacial and dental surgery

39. Anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery

40. Anaesthesia for vascular, endocrine and plastic surgery

41. Anaesthesia for neurosurgery

42. Anaesthesia for thoracic surgery

43. Anaesthesia for cardiac surgery

44. Obstetric Anaesthesia

45. Emergency and Trauma Anaesthesia

46. Anaesthesia in resource poor areas

47. Anaesthetic outside the operating theatre

48. Anaesthesia and organ transplantation

49. Intensive care medicine

Description:
For over 40 years, this award-winning textbook has been the core text for anaesthetists new to the specialty and other healthcare professionals involved in perioperative care. Now in its eighth edition, this high quality, clinically relevant resource continues to offer essential reading covering all aspects of anaesthesia in surgery.

Covering day-to-day clinical practice in anaesthesia and perioperative medicine, from preoperative assessment and optimisation to clinical anaesthesia and postoperative care, this practical guide also contains an overview of the scientific principles that underpin these practices. It includes topics such as relevant pharmacology and basic physiology; data analysis and statistics; physics; equipment and monitoring; safety and quality assurance; general, regional and local anaesthetic techniques for a full range of surgical specialties. In combining these aspects, it has been an invaluable resource for generations of anaesthetists.

Fully updated and now accompanied by ancillary videos, this book is ideal for all trainee anaesthetists including candidates for the Fellowship of Royal College of Anaesthetists and similar examinations.

Features:

• Highly regarded internationally
• Aligned to the FRCA syllabus – including the updated FRCA syllabus references linked to the relevant content of each chapter in the online ebook
• Offers clear, concise and practical coverage of all aspects of anaesthesia and perioperative care, including intensive care and chronic pain management
• Chapters extensively cross referenced for the reader

New To This Edition:

• All chapters revised and updated, many with new contributing authors
• New chapters on environmental sustainability and point-of-care ultrasound
• Considerations related to airway management related to pandemic viral infections such as COVID-19
• Inclusion of new pharmacokinetic models for TIVA
• Updated sections on infection prevention and control, ECMO, newer modes of renal replacement therapy and post-intensive care syndrome
• Anaesthesia for specific, common cardiac procedures
• Considerations relevant to robotic surgery
• New videos in the Point of Care Ultrasound chapter

Table Of Contents:

Section 1 Basic Sciences

1. General principles of pharmacology

2. Data, statistics and clinical trials

3. Inhalational anaethestic agents

4. Intravenous anaesthetic and sedative agents

5. Local anaesthetic agents

6. Pain

7. Nausea and vomiting

8. Muscle function and neuromuscular blockade

9. Cardiovascular system

10. Respiratory system

11. Renal system

12. Fluid, electrolyte and acid-base balance

13. Endocrine System

14. Blood, coagulation and transfusion

Section 2 Physics and Apparatus

15. Basic physics for the anaesthetist

16. Anaesthetic apparatus

17. Clinical measurement and monitoring

Section 3 Fundamentals of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

18. Quality and safety in anaesthesia

19. Preoperative assessment and premedication/preparation

20. Intercurrent disease and anaesthesia

21. Consent and information for patients

22. The practical conduct of anaesthesia

23. Airway management

24. Pain Management

25. Local and regional anaesthetic techniques

26. Complications during anaesthesia

27. Management of critical incidents

28. Resuscitation

29. Point-of-care ultrasound

30. Post-operative and recovery room care

31. Sustainability

Section 4 Clinical Anaesthesia

32. Anaesthesia for the elderly and/or frail patient

33. Anaesthesia for the bariatric patient

34. Paediatric anaesthesia

35. Anaesthesia for daycase surgery

36. Anaesthesia for general, gynaecological and genitourinary surgery

37. Anaesthesia for orthopaedic surgery

38. Anaesthesia for ENT, maxillofacial and dental surgery

39. Anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery

40. Anaesthesia for vascular, endocrine and plastic surgery

41. Anaesthesia for neurosurgery

42. Anaesthesia for thoracic surgery

43. Anaesthesia for cardiac surgery

44. Obstetric Anaesthesia

45. Emergency and Trauma Anaesthesia

46. Anaesthesia in resource poor areas

47. Anaesthetic outside the operating theatre

48. Anaesthesia and organ transplantation

49. Intensive care medicine