CLINICAL ANESTHESIA PROCEDURES OF THE MASSACHUSETTS GR. HOSPITAL, 9TH EDITION

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About the Author(s)
Richard M. Pino MD, PhD
Medical Director, Procedural Sedation. Vice Chairman for Clinical Affairs

Table Of Contents
PART I: EVALUATING THE PATIENT BEFORE ANESTHESIA 1
1 Evaluating the Patient Before Anesthesia 1
Jessie L. Cassada and Laurie Shapiro
2 Specific Considerations with Cardiac Disease 17
Christina Anne Jelly and Olof Viktorsdottir
3 Specific Considerations with Pulmonary Disease 33
Yiuka Leung and Kenneth E. Shepherd
4 Specific Considerations with Renal Disease 44
Samuel Vanderhoek and William Benedetto
5 Specific Considerations with Liver Disease 64
Matthew C. Gertsch and Wilton C. Levine
6 Specific Considerations with Endocrine Disease 76
Becky Y.K. Tsui, Robert A. Peterfreund, and Stephanie L. Lee
7 Infectious Diseases and Infection Control in Anesthesia 101
Courtney Maxey-Jones and Elizabeth Cox Williams

PART II: ADMINISTRATION OF ANESTHESIA 113
8 Safety in Anesthesia 113
Solmaz Poorsattar Manuel and May Pian-Smith
9 The Anesthesia Machine 122
Adeola O. Sadik and Greg Ginsberg
10 Monitoring 133
Mitchell Donner and William Schoenfeld
11 Monitoring Anesthetic Brain States 152
Negin Daneshpayeh and Emery N. Brown
12 Intravenous and Inhalation Anesthetics 162
Jason Lee and Ken Solt
13 Neuromuscular Blockade 177
Bryan Simmons and Oleg V. Evgenov
14 Airway Evaluation and Management 192
David G. Frazer and Ulrich Schmidt
15 Administration of General Anesthesia 211
William J. Sauer and Stuart A. Forman
16 Local Anesthetics 222
Ayumi Maeda and Rebecca D. Minehart
17 Spinal, Epidural, and Caudal Anesthesia 231
David J. Kim and Jason M. Lewis
18 Regional Anesthesia 255
Lane Crawford and Lisa Warren
19 Intra-anesthetic Problems 290
Ryan J. Horvath and Keith Baker
20 Perioperative Hemodynamic Control 312
Genevieve E. Staudt and Rafael Vazquez
21 Anesthesia for Abdominal Surgery 328
Richard Anderson and Xiaodong Bao
22 Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery 348
Caroline B.G. Hunter and Paul H. Alfille
23 Anesthesia for Vascular Surgery 368
Jessica A. Cox and Hovig V. Chitilian
24 Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery 388
Tao Shen and Jason Zhensheng Qu
25 Anesthesia for Neurosurgery 422
Gaganpreet Grewal and Michele Szabo
26 Anesthesia for Head and Neck Surgery 442
Chang Amber Liu and Jeremy Goldfarb
27 Anesthesia for Spine Surgery 455
Puneet Sayal and George Hanna
28 Anesthesia for Urologic Surgery 460
Alexander D. Moore and William R. Kimball
29 Anesthesia for Geriatric Patients 468
Zhongcong Xie and Khan Chaichana
30 Care of the Neonate 475
Jamie Rubin, Katherine A. Sparger, and Jesse D. Roberts Jr.
31 Anesthesia for Pediatric Surgery 500
Susan A. Vassallo and Michael P. Puglia
32 Anesthesia for Obstetrics and Gynecology 523
Naida Cole and Andrea Torri
33 Anesthesia Outside of the Operating Room 543
Alexander Y.B. Lee and John J.A. Marota
34 Anesthesia for Trauma and Burns 557
Cindy Meerim Kim and Rebecca Kalman
35 Transfusion Therapy 577
Michael R. King and Jonathan E. Charnin

PART III: PERIOPERATIVE ISSUES 594
36 The Postanesthesia Care Unit 594
Matthew J. Meyer and Edward E. George
37 Postoperative Pulmonary Complications 614
Milad Sharifpour and Edward Bittner
38 Adult, Pediatric, and Newborn Resuscitation 622
Peter L. Bekker, Somaletha Bhattacharya, and Richard M. Pino
39 Pain Management 639
Marc D. Yelle and James P. Rathmell
40 Complementary and Alternative Medicine 658
Dan Dryzmalski, Margaret Gargarian, and P. Grace Harrell
41 Ethical and End-of-Life Issues 665
Tara L. Kelly and Sheri Berg

APPENDIX I: Drugs with Narrow Therapeutic Ranges
and Potential for Harm 673
APPENDIX II: Commonly Used Drugs 677
APPENDIX III: Common Intravenous Antibiotics 695
Index 697