Comprehensive Clinical Anesthesia

This book is a comprehensive guide to clinical anaesthesia for practitioners and trainees.

Divided into eleven sections, the text begins with a general overview, followed by discussion on anaesthesia delivery systems, monitoring, and equipment. A complete section is dedicated to different drugs used in anaesthesia.

The next section covers anaesthesia for different types of surgeries in various body systems. The remaining chapters detail more subspecialty-specific anaesthesia including cardiac, obstetric, neuro, paediatric, transplant, and regional.

The book concludes with a section on postoperative care.  

Authored by highly experienced experts in the field, the text is further enhanced by illustrations and figures to assist learning.

Key points

• Comprehensive guide to clinical anaesthesia for practitioners and trainees
• Covers numerous types of anaesthesia for different surgeries and body systems
• Includes sections on pharmacology and postoperative care
• Highly experienced, expert author team

Section 1: ESSENTIALS FOR THE ANESTHETIST

1. Landmarks in the Evolution of Anesthesia
2. Patient and Personnel Safety in the Operation Theater
3. Minimizing Errors in the Operating Theaters and PACU
4. Quality Indicators in Anesthesia
5. Soft Skills (Nontechnical Skills) and Anesthesiologist
6. Research and Statistics for the Anesthesiologist
7. Strategies to Improve Postoperative Outcomes
8. Preanesthesia Evaluation
9. Physics for Anesthetists
10. Ethics and Law in Anesthesia

Section 2: ANESTHESIA DELIVERY SYSTEMS, MONITORING AND OTHER EQUIPMENT

11. Modern Anesthesia Delivery Systems
12. Oxygen Therapy Devices and Anesthesia Breathing Circuits
13. Hemodynamic and Respiratory Monitoring
14. Monitoring Neuromuscular Blockade and Reversal
15. Monitoring Coagulation and Anticoagulation
16. Role of Ultrasound in Anesthesia

Section 3: PHARMACOLOGY ESSENTIALS FOR THE ANESTHETIST

17. Basic Pharmacology for Anesthetists
18. Premedication in Anesthesia Practice
19. Intravenous Anesthetic Agents
20. Inhaled Anesthetic Agents
21. Opioids Analgesics and Reversal Agents
22. Nonopioid Analgesics
23. Neuromuscular Blocking Agents and Reversal Agents
24. Vasoactive Drugs in Anesthesia and Critical Care
25. Drugs for Local and Regional Anesthesia
26. Antisepsis in Anesthesia Practice
27. Adjunct Drugs in Anesthesia

Section 4: ANESTHESIA MANAGEMENT

28. Airway Management
29. Anesthesia for Noncardiac Surgery in Patients with Cardiovascular Morbidity
30. Anesthesia for Noncardiac Thoracic Surgery
31. Anesthesia for Nonthoracic Surgery in Patients with Respiratory Morbidity
32. Anesthesia for Genitourinary Surgery
33. Anesthesia for Patients with Hepatic Disorders for Liver Resection and Other Surgeries
34. Anesthesia for Head and Neck Surgeries
35. Anesthetic Management of Patients with Diabetes Mellitus
36. Anesthetic Concerns in Patients with Endocrine Disorders
37. Anesthesia for Laser Surgery of the Airway
38. Anesthesia for Ophthalmic Surgery
39. Principles of Anesthesia for Patients with Trauma
40. Anesthesia for Cancer Surgery
41. Anesthesia for Vascular Surgery
42. Anesthesia for the Elderly
43. Anesthesia for Obese Patients
44. Anesthesia for Patients with Burns
45. Anesthesia for Day-care Surgery
46. Anesthesia in Remote Locations
47. Anesthesia for Emergency Surgery
48. Anesthesia Management of a Patient with Sepsis
49. Management of Common Complications during Anesthesia

Section 5: CARDIAC ANESTHESIA

50. Anesthesia for Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
51. Anesthesia for Patients Undergoing Valvular Heart Surgery
52. Anesthesia for Patients Undergoing Congenital Heart Surgery

Section 6: NEUROANESTHESIA

53. Neuromonitoring
54. Anesthesia for a Patient with Traumatic Brain Injury
55. Anesthesia for Patients Undergoing Brain Tumor Surgery

Section 7: OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA

56. Labor Analgesia
57. Anesthesia for Cesarean Section
58. Anesthesia for the High-risk Parturient

Section 8: PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA

59. Anesthesia for Neonatal Emergencies
60. Preoperative Evaluation, Preparation, Induction, Maintenance, and Emergence from Anesthesia in Children
61. Perioperative Fluid and Transfusion Therapy in Children

Section 9: ANESTHESIA FOR TRANSPLANT SURGERY

62. Anesthesia for Renal Transplant
63. Anesthesia for Liver Transplantation
64. nesthesia for Multivisceral and Intestinal Transplant
65. Anesthesia for Heart Transplant
66. Anesthesia for Lung Transplantation

Section 10: REGIONAL ANESTHESIA

67. Neuraxial Blocks
68. Upper and Lower Limb Blocks
69. Chest Wall Interfascial Plane Blocks
70. Abdominal Interfascial Plane Block

Section 11: POSTOPERATIVE CARE

71. Management of Patients in Postanesthesia Care Unit
72. Management of Complications after Anesthesia
73. Temperature Management in Perioperative Period
74. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
75. Massive Blood Transfusion and Management of Complications
76. Mechanical Ventilation in the Postsurgical Patient
77. DVT Prophylaxis and Management of PE in the Postoperative Patient
78. Perioperative Nutrition
79. Acute Pain Management
80. Principles of Chronic Pain Management and Palliative Care

Atul P Kulkarni MD FISCCM PGDHHM FICCM
Professor and Head, Division of Critical Care

Vandana Agarwal MD FRCA
Professor

Vijaya P Patil MD Dip
Professor and Head, Division of Clinical Anesthesia

Jigeeshu V Divatia MD FISCCM FICCM
Professor and Head

All at Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India