A practice of anesthesia for infants and children, 4th ed. (pocket reference guide included).

9781416031345

A practice of anesthesia for infants and children, 4th ed. (pocket reference guide included)

Ed. by Charles J. Cote et al.

Elsevier Saunders

2009

1167 pages

$149.00

Hardcover

RD139

Cote (anesthesia, Harvard Medical School), Lerman (anesthesia, Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo), and Todres (pediatrics and anesthesia, Harvard Medical School) present the newest edition of their textbook on pediatric anesthesia that has greatly expanded since its first edition in 1985 by including a wide range of anesthetic and pediatric subjects from contributors who are no longer just pediatric anesthesiologists, but pediatricians, internists, surgeons, a lawyer, and a pharmacologist from six continents in order to be of use in a wide variety of global situations (most references have been moved to an accompanying website in order to maintain a manageable size). The volume's 53 chapters have been organized into sections covering introductory materials, drug and fluid therapy, the chest, the heart, the brain and glands, the abdomen, other surgeries, emergencies, pain, and special topics. Changes to this edition include a new chapter on total intravenous anesthesia for children; discussion of supraglottic devices and emergency airway management strategies and equipment within the pediatric airway chapter; revision of the transfusion chapter with contributions from a pediatric hematologist specializing in hemophilia and the director of the blood transfusion service at Massachusetts General Hospital; greater coverage of pain with chapters on landmark- and ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia, chronic pain, and the management of acute postoperative pain; expansion of the cardiac anesthesia section with new chapters on cardiopulmonary bypass, medications used for hemostasis, cardiac assist devices, and the cardiac catheterization laboratory; and new chapters on special topics such as thoracic anesthesia, orthopedics, plastic surgery, general and urologic surgery, the practice of anesthesia in medically disadvantaged countries, medical-legal issues, infectious diseases, the extremely premature infant, and the ex-utero intrapartum treatment procedure.

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