Handbook of clinical anaesthesia / edited by Brian Pollard and Gareth Kitchen

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Patient conditions -- Respiratory system -- Cardiovascular system -- Central nervous system -- Gastrointestinal tract -- Genitourinary tract -- Endocrine system -- The blood -- Bones and joints -- Connective tissue -- Part II: Surgical procedures -- Abdominal surgery -- Gynaecological surgery -- Obstetric surgery -- Urology -- Neurosurgery -- Thoracic surgery -- Cardiac surgery -- Vascular surgery -- Ophthalmic surgery -- ENT surgery -- Head and neck surgery -- Plastic surgery -- Orthopaedics -- Transplantation -- Paediatrics -- Part III: Anaesthetic factors -- Preoperative assessment -- Airway -- Equipment and monitoring -- Techniques: general -- Techniques: regional -- Management problems.

Written and edited by experts in the field, the Handbook of Clinical Anaesthesia provides all the essential practical knowledge required by anaesthetists on co-existing medical conditions, operative procedures, and techniques. The fourth edition retains the concise and comprehensive nature of the third, giving readers all they need to know about each part of the FRCA syllabus in short, digestible, practical entries.