Smith's Anesthesia for Infants and Children

Description:


Written and edited by renowned experts in pediatric anesthesia, Smith's Anesthesia for Infants and Children provides clear, concise guidance on effective perioperative care for any type of pediatric surgery. The 10th Edition contains significantly revised content throughout, bringing you fully up to date with recent advances in clinical and basic science that have led to changes in today’s clinical practice.

Key Features:

Offers comprehensive coverage of physiology, pharmacology, and clinical anesthetic management of infants and children of all ages.

Contains new chapters on Airway Physiology and Development, Normal and Difficult Airway Management, Ultrasound, Acute Pain Management, Chronic Pain Management, Palliative Pain Management, Infectious Diseases, and Education; plus extensively revised content on cardiovascular physiology; induction, maintenance, and recovery; organ transplantation, and more.

Features more than 100 video demonstrations, including regional anesthesia videos, echocardiograms of congenital heart lesions, anatomic dissections of various congenital heart specimens with audio explanations, various pediatric surgical operative procedures, airway management, and much more.

Provides outstanding visual guidance throughout, including full-color photographs, drawings, graphs and charts, and radiographic images.

Includes quick-reference appendices online: drug dosages, growth curves, normal values for pulmonary function tests, and a listing of common and uncommon syndromes.

Provides an interactive question bank online for review and self-assessment.

Enhanced digital version included with purchase. Your enhanced digital allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Table Of Contents:

PART I Basic Principles and Physiology

1. Special Characteristics of Pediatric Anesthesia

2. Behavioral Development

3. Respiratory Physiology

4. Airway Physiology and Development

5. Cardiovascular Physiology

6. Regulation of Fluids and Electrolytes

7. Thermoregulation PART II Pharmacology

8. Developmental Pharmacology

9. Intravenous Anesthetics

10. Inhaled Anesthetics

11. Local Anesthetics

12. Opioids

13. Neuromuscular Blocking Agents

14. Anesthetic Adjuncts PART III General Approach

15. Psychological Aspects of Pediatric Anesthesia

16. Preoperative Preparation

17. Equipment

18. Monitoring

19. Normal and Difficult Airway Management

20. Ultrasound

21. Induction, Maintenance, and Recovery

22. Blood Conservation and Transfusion Medicine PART IV Pain Management

23. Acute Pain Management

24. Regional Anesthesia

25. Chronic Pain Management

26. Palliative Pain Management PART V Clinical Management of Specialized Surgical Problems

27. Neonatology for Anesthesiologists

28. Anesthesia for General Surgery in Neonates

29. Anesthesia for Fetal Surgery

30. Anesthesia for Congenital Heart Disease

31. Anesthesia for Neurosurgery

32. Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery

33. Anesthesia for General Abdominal, Urologic

34. ENT

35. Plastic Surgery

36. ANESTHESIA FOR PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY

37. Opthalmology

38. Organ Transplantation

39. Conjoined Twins

40. Pediatric Trauma

41. Anesthesia for Burns

42. Dental Anesthesia

43. Anesthesia and Sedation for Out of OR Procedures

44. Pediatric Sedation

45. Anesthesia for Surgical Missions PART VI Systemic Disorders and Associated Problems

46. Endocrine Disorders

47. Respiratory Disorders

48. Cardiovascular Disease

49. Hematology and Coagulation Disorders

50. Oncologic Disorders

51. Genetic Muscular Disorders

52. Malignant Hyperthermia

53. Pediatric Obesity

54. Special Pediatric Disorders

55. Dermatology for the Anesthesiologist

56. Infectious Diseases PART VII Critical Care in Pediatric Anesthesia

57. CPR

58. Critical Care Medicine

59. CICU PART VIII Special topics

60. Patient Safety and Outcomes in Pediatric Anesthesia

61. History of Pediatric Anesthesia

62. Medicolegal and Ethical Aspects

63. Education

64. Statistics