Basics of anesthesia / Ronald D. Miller, Manuel C. Pardo Jr.

Rev. ed. of: Basics of anesthesia / Robert K. Stoelting and Ronald D. Miller. 5th ed. c2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1. Introduction -- section 2. Pharmacology and physiology -- section 3. Preoperative preparation and intraoperative management -- section 4. Special anesthetic considerations -- section 5. Recovery period -- section 6. Consultant anesthetic practice.

With the most authoritative and complete overview of anesthesia theory and practice, the latest edition of of this book, edited by noted anesthesiologist Ronald D. Miller, MD and Manuel C. Pardo, Jr., MD, continues to serve as an primer on the scope and practice of anesthesiology. Widely acknowledged as the foremost introductory text, the new edition-now presented in full color throughout-has been thoroughly updated to reflect new and rapidly changing areas in anesthesia practice including new chapters on awareness under anesthesia, quality and patient safety, orthopedics, and expanded coverage of new ultrasound techniques in regional anesthesiology with detailed illustrated guidance. Discover the newest in anesthesiology with rigorously updated chapters and the addition of appropriate new chapters on important emerging topics such as awareness under anesthesia; quality and patient safety; orthopedics; and expanded coverage of new ultrasound techniques in regional anesthesiology. Clear and concise information written by a known anesthesiologist in the world, Dr. Ronald Miller, and a new co-editor Dr. Manuel Pardo, makes difficult concepts easier to understand.