General Medical Information

Clinical Anesthesia

Paul G. Barash, MD
Bruce F. Cullen, MD
Robert K. Stoelting, MD

I INTRODUCTION TO ANESTHESIA PRACTICE

Chapter 1. The History of Anesthesiology
Judith A. Toski, Douglas R. Bacon, and Rod K. Calverley
Chapter 2. Practice Management
George Mychaskiw II and John H. Eichhorn
Chapter 3. Experimental Design and Statistics
Nathan Leon Pace
Chapter 4. Hazards of Working in the Operating Room
Arnold J. Berry and Jonathan D. Katz
Chapter 5. Professional Liability, Risk Management, and Quality Improvement
Karen L. Posner, Frederick W. Cheney, and Donald A. Kroll
Chapter 6. Value-Based Anesthesia Practice, Resource Utilization, and Operating Room Management
Kenneth J. Tuman and Anthony D. Ivankovich

II BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ANESTHESIA PRACTICE

Chapter 7. Cellular and Molecular Mechanics of Anesthesia
Alex S. Evers
Chapter 8. Electrical Safety
Jan Ehrenwerth
Chapter 9. Acid-Base, Fluids, and Electrolytes
Donald S. Prough and Mali Mathru
Chapter 10. Hemotherapy and Hemostasis
Charise T. Petrovitch and John C. Drummond

III BASIC PRINCIPLES OF PHARMACOLOGY IN ANESTHESIA PRACTICE

Chapter 11. Basic Principles of Clinical Pharmacology
Robert J. Hudson
Chapter 12. Autonomic Nervous System: Physiology and Pharmacology
Noel W. Lawson and Joel O. Johnson
Chapter 13. Nonopioid Intravenous Anesthesia
Jen W. Chiu and Paul F. White
Chapter 14. Opioids
Barbara A. Coda
Chapter 15. Inhalation Anesthesia
Thomas J. Ebert and Phillip G. Schmid III
Chapter 16. Muscle Relaxants
David R. Bevan and Francçois Donati
Chapter 17. Local Anesthetics
Spencer S. Liu and Peter S. Hodgson

IV PREPARING FOR ANESTHESIA

Chapter 18. Preoperative Evaluation
Lee A. Fleisher
Chapter 19. Anesthesia for Patients with Rare and Coexisting Diseases
Stephen F. Dierdorf
Chapter 20. Malignant Hyperthermia and Other Pharmacogenetic Disorders
Henry Rosenberg, Jeffrey E. Fletcher, and Barbara W. Brandom
Chapter 21. Preoperative Medication
John R. Moyers and Carla M. Vincent
Chapter 22. Delivery Systems for Inhaled Anesthetics
J. Jeffrey Andrews and Russell C. Brockwell
Chapter 23. Airway Management
William H. Rosenblatt
Chapter 24. Patient Positioning
Mark A. Warner and John T. Martin
Chapter 25. Monitoring the Anesthetized Patient
Glenn S. Murphy and Jeffrey S. Vender

V MANAGEMENT OF ANESTHESIA

Chapter 26. Epidural and Spinal Anesthesia
Christopher M. Bernards
Chapter 27. Peripheral Nerve Blockade
Michael F. Mulroy
Chapter 28. Anesthesia for Neurosurgery
Audrée A. Bendo, Ira S. Kass, John Hartung, and James E. Cottrell
Chapter 29. Respiratory Function in Anesthesia
M. Christine Stock
Chapter 30. Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery
James B. Eisenkraft, Edmond Cohen, and Steven M. Neustein
Chapter 31. Cardiovascular Anatomy and Physiology
Carol L. Lake
Chapter 32. Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery
Serle K. Levin, W. Chase Boyd, Peter T. Rothstein, and Stephen J. Thomas
Chapter 33. Anesthesia for Vascular Surgery
John E. Ellis, Michael F. Roizen, Srinivas Mantha, Gary Tzeng, and Tina Desai
Chapter 34. Anesthesia and the Eye
Kathryn E. McGoldrick
Chapter 35. Anesthesia for Otolaryngologic Surgery
Alexander W. Gotta, Lynne R. Ferrari, and Colleen A. Sullivan
Chapter 36. The Renal System and Anesthesia for Urologic Surgery
Terri G. Monk and B. Craig Weldon
Chapter 37. Anesthesia and Obesity and Gastrointestinal Disorders
F. Peter Buckley and Kenneth Martay
Chapter 38. Anesthesia for Minimally Invasive Procedures
Anthony J. Cunningham and Noreen Dowd
Chapter 39. Anesthesia and the Liver
Phillip S. Mushlin and Simon Gelman
Chapter 40. Anesthesia for Orthopaedic Surgery
Terese T. Horlocker and Denise J. Wedel
Chapter 41. Anesthesia and the Endocrine System
Jeffrey J. Schwartz, Stanley H. Rosenbaum, and George J. Graf
Chapter 42. Obstetric Anesthesia
Alan C. Santos, David A. O’Gorman, and Mieczyslaw Finster
Chapter 43. Neonatal Anesthesia
Frederic A. Berry and Barbara A. Castro
Chapter 44. Pediatric Anesthesia
Joseph P. Cravero and Linda Jo Rice
Chapter 45. Anesthesia for the Geriatric Patient
Stanley Muravchick
Chapter 46. Anesthesia for Ambulatory Surgery
J. Lance Lichtor
Chapter 47. Monitored Anesthesia Care
Simon C. Hillier
Chapter 48. Trauma and Burns
Levon M. Capan and Sanford M. Miller
Chapter 49. The Allergic Response
Jerrold H. Levy
Chapter 50. Drug Interactions
Carl Rosow
Chapter 51. Anesthesia Provided at Alternative Sites
Charles E. Laurito
Chapter 52. Anesthesia for Organ Transplantation
Leonard L. Firestone and Susan Firestone

VI POST ANESTHESIA AND CONSULTANT PRACTICE

Chapter 53. Postoperative Recovery
Roger S. Mecca
Chapter 54. Management of Acute Postoperative Pain
Timothy R. Lubenow, Anthony D. Ivankovich, and Robert J. McCarthy
Chapter 55. Chronic Pain Management
Stephen E. Abram and Christian R. Schlicht
Chapter 56. ICU: Critical Care
Morris Brown
Chapter 57. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Charles W. Otto
APPENDIX: Electrocardiography
James R. Zaidan and Paul G. Barash