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Clinical Cases in Anesthesia

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  • 4th Edition - December 20, 2013
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Allan P. Reed, Francine S. Yudkowitz
  • Language: English

Prepare for the oral boards with the thoroughly updated Clinical Cases in Anesthesia. This comprehensive and current anesthesia review tool presents case studies representing tod… Read more

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Prepare for the oral boards with the thoroughly updated Clinical Cases in Anesthesia. This comprehensive and current anesthesia review tool presents case studies representing today's most commonly encountered clinical situations, equipping you to master the latest anesthesia treatment protocols and practice guidelines and achieve your very best score.

Key features

  • Learn the most practical solutions
  • to contemporary problems, and understand the relevant scientific and clinical principles, through actual case studies presented in a helpful Q&A format.
  • Study on the go! Browse the complete contents online at www.expertconsult.com!

Readership

The primary audience for this book are anesthesiology residents preparing for boards and anesthesiologists preparing for recertification.

Table of contents

SECTION 1 CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

1 Coronary Artery Disease

2 Recent Myocardial Infarction

3 Congestive Heart Failure

4 Aortic Stenosis

5 Mitral Stenosis

6 Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy

7 Cardiac Pacemakers and Difibtillators

8 Cardiac Tamponade

9 Patient with a Left Ventricular Assist Device Presenting for Noncardiac Surgery

10 Noncardiac Surgery After Heart Transplantation

11 Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

SECTION 2 RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

12 One-Lung Anesthesia

13 Thoracoscopy

SECTION 3 CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

14 Intracranial Mass, Intracranial Pressure, Venous Air Embolism, and Autoregulation

15 Intracranial Aneurysm

16 Carotid Endarterectomy

17 Electroconvulsive Therapy

18 Spine Surgery

19 Transsphenoidal Hypophysectomy

SECTION 4 NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM

20 Depolarizing Neuromuscular Blockade

21 Nondepolarizing Neuromuscular Blockade

22 Antagonism of Nondepolarizing Neuromuscular Blockade

23 Monitoring The Neuromuscular Junction

24 Myasthenia Gravis

25 Malignant Hyperthemia

SECTION 5 ENDOCRINE SYSTEM

26 Diabetes Mellitus

27 Thyroid Disease

28 Parathyroidectomy

29 Perioperative Corticosteroid Administration

30 Pheochromocytoma

31 Carcinoid Syndrome


SECTION 6 ABDOMEN

32 Full Stomach

33 Major Hepatic Resection

34 Open Abdominal Aortic Repair

35 Endovascular Thoracic Aortic Repair

36 Transurethral Resection of the Prostate

37 Super Morbid Obesity

38 Robotic Prostatectomy

39 Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation

SECTION 7 EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT

40 Open-Eye Injury and Intraocular Pressure

41 Retinal Detachment

42 Tympanomastoidectomy

43 The Difficult Airway

44 Laser Laryngoscopy

45 Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

SECTION 8 BLOOD



46 Transfusion Reaction

47 Perioperative Coagulopathies

48 Blood Replacement

49 The Jehovah’s Witness Patient

50 Sickle Cell Disease

SECTION 9 ORTHOPEDICS

51 Total Hip Replacement

52 Brachial Plexus Anesthesia

53 Lower Extremity Anesthesia

SECTION 10 OBSTETRICS

54 Labor and Delivery

55 Preeclampsia

56 Abruptio Placenta and Placenta Previa

57 Anesthesia for Nonobstetric Surgery in Pregnancy

58 Thrombocytopenia in Pregnancy

SECTION 11 PEDIATRICS

59 Abdominal Wall Defects

60 Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

61 Tracheoesophageal Fistula

62 Pyloric Stenosis

63 Congenital Heart Disease

64 Preterm Infant

65 Adenotonsillectomy

66 Foreign Body Aspiration

67 MRI and the Down Syndrome Child


SECTION 12 PAIN

68 Acute Postoperative Pain

69 Low Back Pain

70 Postherpetic Neuralgia

71 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

72 Cancer Pain Management

SECTION 13 AMBULATORY ANESTHESIA

73 Ambulatory Surgery

74 Office-Based Anesthesia

SECTION 14 TRAUMA

75 Thoracic Trauma

76 Burns

77 Abdominal Trauma

SECTION 15 POSTANESTHESIA CARE UNIT

78 Asthma

79 Hypothermia

80 Postanesthesia Care Unit Discharge Criteria

81 Delayed Emergence, Coma, and Brain Death

SECTION 16 CRITICAL CARE

82 Neonatal Resuscitation

83 Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

84 Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

85 Do Not Resuscitate

86 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

87 Respiratory Failure

88 Cardiovascular System

89 Sepsis and Multisystem Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

90 Renal System

91 Central Nervous System

Product details

  • Edition: 4
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 20, 2013
  • Language: English

About the authors

AR

Allan P. Reed

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

FY

Francine S. Yudkowitz

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

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