Smith and Aitkenhead's textbook of anesthesia Edited by Jonathan Thompson, Iain Moppett and Matthew Wiles

Includes an index.

Section 1 Basic Sciences General principles of pharmacology Data, statistics and clinical trials Inhalational anaesthetics and medical gases Intravenous anaesthetics and sedatives Local anaesthetics Pain Nausea and vomiting Muscle function and neuromuscular blockade Cardiovascular system Respiratory system Renal system Fluid, electrolyte and acid-base balance Metabolism, the stress response and thermoregulation Blood, coagulation and transfusion Section 2 Physics and Apparatus Basic physics Equipment Clinical measurement and monitoring Section 3 Fundamentals of Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine Quality and safety Preoperative assessment Coexisting disease Consent and information The practical conduct of anaesthesia Airway management Pain management Local and regional anaesthesia Complications Management of critical incidents Resuscitation Postoperative care Section 4 Clinical Anaesthesia The high-risk surgical patient The older surgical patient The obese patient Paediatric anaesthesia Day surgery General, gynaecological and genitourinary surgery Orthopaedic surgery ENT, maxillofacial and dental surgery Ophthalmic surgery Vascular, endocrine and plastic surgery Neurosurgery Thoracic surgery Cardiac surgery Obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia Emergency and trauma surgery Anaesthesia in low and middle-income areas Anaesthesia outside the operating theatre Organ transplantation Intensive care medicine