General Medical Information

Clinical Anesthesia Procedures of the Massachusetts General Hospital

William E. Hurford, M.D.
Michael T. Bailin, M.D.
J. Kenneth Davison, M.D.
Kenneth L. Haspel, M.D.
Carl Rosow, M.D.
Susan A. Vassallo, M.D.

I. Evaluating the Patient Before Anesthesia

1. Evaluating the Patient Before Anesthesia
Mary Kraft and Richard A. Wiklund
2. Specific Considerations with Cardiac Disease
James G. Cain
3. Specific Considerations with Pulmonary Disease
Kevin C. Dennehy and Kenneth E. Shepherd
4. Specific Considerations with Renal Disease
Adam Sapirstein
5. Specific Considerations with Liver Disease
Robert Peloquin and Michael T. Bailin
6. Specific Considerations with Endocrine Disease
Robert A. Peterfreund and Stephanie L. Lee
7. Infectious Diseases and Infection Control in Anesthesia
Judith Hellman

II. Administration of Anesthesia

8. Safety in Anesthesia
Jeffrey B. Cooper
9. The Anesthesia Machine
Jane C. Ballantyne
10. Monitoring
John L. Walsh and Barry M. Stowe
11. Intravenous and Inhalation Anesthetics
Mark Dershwitz
12. Neuromuscular Blockade
Jason A. Campagna and Peter F. Dunn
13. Airway Evaluation and Management
Harish Lecamwasam and Peter F. Dunn
14. Administration of General Anesthesia
Stuart A. Forman
15. Local Anesthetics
Tania Haddad and Jeannie Min
16. Spinal, Epidural, and Caudal Anesthesia
Shobana Chandrasekhar and May C. M. Pian-Smith
17. Regional Anesthesia
James B. Mayfield and Margaret Gargarian
18. Intraanesthetic Problems
Keith H. Baker and Douglas E. Raines
19. Perioperative Hemodynamic Control
Vilma E. Ortiz and Robert R. Morgan, Jr.
20. Anesthesia for Abdominal Surgery
Jean Kwo and John J. A. Marota
21. Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery
Paul H. Alfille
22. Anesthesia for Vascular Surgery
Edward Bittner and Peter F. Dunn
23. Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery
Scott C. Streckenbach and Derrick B. Willsey
24. Anesthesia for Neurosurgery
Wolfgang Steudel and Michele Szabo
25. Anesthesia for Head and Neck Surgery
Avine Lydon and Martin Andrew Acquadro
26. Anesthesia for the Elderly and for Urologic Surgery
Harvey C. Shew and William Kimball
27. Anesthesia for Surgical Emergencies in the Neonate
Jesse D. Roberts, Jr., Jonathan H. Cronin, and Maria M. Zestos
28. Anesthesia for Pediatric Surgery
Susan A. Vassallo
29. Anesthesia for Obstetrics and Gynecology
Jeannie Min and Tania Haddad
30. Ambulatory Anesthesia
James B. Mayfield
31. Anesthesia Outside the Operating Room
William E. Hurford and Susan A. Vassallo
32. Anesthesia for Trauma and Burns
Christopher Carter and Keith H. Baker
33. Transfusion Therapy
Rae M. Allain

III. Perioperative Issues

34. The Postanesthesia Care Unit
Edward E. George and Luca M. Bigatello
35. Perioperative Respiratory Failure
Edward E. George and Luca M. Bigatello
36. Adult, Pediatric, and Newborn Resuscitation
Richard M. Pino
37. Pain
Joshua Bloomstone and David Borsook
38. Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Margaret Gargarian and P. Grace Harrell
39. Ethical and End-of-Life Issues
William E. Hurford and Rae M. Allain

Appendix
I. Supplementary Drug Information
II. Normal Laboratory Values for Blood