OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ANAESTHESIA

Preoperative assessment and preparation for anaesthesia
1: General considerations
2: Consent and anaesthetic risk
3: Cardiovascular disease
4: Perioperative arrhythmias
5: Respiratory disease
6: Renal disease
7: Hepatic disease
8: Endocrine and metabolic disease
9: Bone, joint, and connective tissue disorders
10: Haematological disorders
11: Neurological and muscular disorders
12: Psychiatric disorders and drugs
13: Uncommon conditions

Anaesthesia for surgical specialties
14: Cardiac surgery
15: Thoracic surgery
16: Neurosurgery
17: Vascular surgery
18: Orthopaedic surgery
19: Plastic surgery
20: General surgery
21: Liver transplantation and resection
22: Endocrine surgery
23: Urological surgery
24: Gynaecological surgery
25: Ear, nose, and throat surgery
26: Maxillofacial and dental surgery
27: Ophthalmic surgery
28: Day surgery
29: Laser surgery
30: CT and MRI imaging
31: Anaesthesia for the elderly

Obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia
32: Obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia

Paediatric and neonatal anaesthesia
33: Paediatric and neonatal anaesthesia

Anaesthetic emergencies
34: The critically ill patient
35: Anaesthetic emergencies

Practical anaesthesia
36: Airway assessment and management
37: Practical anaesthesia
38: Blood products and fluid therapy

Acute pain
39: Acute pain
40: Postoperative nausea and vomiting

Regional anaesthesia
41: Regional anaesthesia
42: Drug formulary
43: Anaesthesia data

About this book
- The only truly concise concise yet comprehensive guide to anaesthetic practice
- Provides practical guidelines for all anaesthetists, from junior to consultant level
- Includes detailed paediatric and obstetric sections with coverage of how anaesthesia practice should be modified when dealing with these particular groups
- Includes useful appendices - a checklist of anaesthetic apparatus, an extensive drug formulary, and a list of normal values

The bestselling Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia has been completely updated for this new third edition. All chapters have been rewritten and a number of new authors have been brought on board to add their expertise and knowledge. Additional new material includes regional anaesthesia, and a comprehensive section on anaesthesia for interventional radiology, a rapidly expanding field of medical practice with particular implications for anaesthesia.
Key sections cover preoperative issues affecting the administration of anaesthesia and techniques employed in the individual surgical specialties. The book provides practical advice covering the impact of medical disease on anaesthesia, and separate comprehensive sections on paediatric and obstetric anaesthesia are also included.
The management of emergencies arising during anaesthesia is fully covered with helpful action plans and algorithms throughout. Uncommon conditions and their management are included, and there is an extensive drug formulary and guide to infusion drugs.
As with the previous editions, this new edition will be the essential handbook for anaesthetists, both junior and experienced, for trainees sitting exams, as well as ODPs and nurses involved in theatre area work and pre-assessment. It is the one book for anyone working in anaesthesia to keep to hand at all times!
Readership: Junior and consultant anaesthetists, registrars in anaesthesia, critical care and pain management and those sitting the FRCA examinations. Operating department personnel and nurses involved in theatre area work and pre-assessment.

Author Information
Keith Allman, Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare NHS Trust, UK, and Iain Wilson, Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare NHS Trust, UK