Smith and Aitkenhead's Textbook of Anaesthesia
- 7th Edition - May 14, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Jonathan Thompson, Iain Moppett, Matthew Wiles
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 7 5 0 0 - 1
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 7 4 9 9 - 8
This highly successful textbook is internationally renowned as a core text for trainee anaesthetists and is essential reading for candidates for the Fellowship of Royal College of… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis highly successful textbook is internationally renowned as a core text for trainee anaesthetists and is essential reading for candidates for the Fellowship of Royal College of Anaesthetists and similar examinations. The previous 6th edition was awarded First Prize at the BMA Medical Book awards.
The book provides full coverage of the sciences underpinning practice in anaesthesia, critical care and pain management together with details of clinical anaesthesia and perioperative care. In combining these aspects, a generation of anaesthetists have found the textbook invaluable during the first few years of training as well as when preparing for the FRCA and similar professional examinations.
The goal for this Seventh Edition has remained to equip the reader with the basic knowledge and practical considerations required to administer anaesthesia and perioperative care for a whole range of surgical conditions in patients with all common medical comorbidities. Reflecting the expanding role of anaesthesia beyond the operating theatre it also includes essential material related to safety and quality assurance, consent, resuscitation, intensive care medicine, pre-hospital care and chronic pain management.
- This book’s scope includes the full range of clinical practice, from anaesthetic equipment and pre-operative assessment through to post-operative care, local anaesthesia, anaesthesia for individual specialties and the management of chronic pain.
- The text covers the principles of pharmacology, anaesthetic agents and physics for the anaesthetist.
Trainee anaesthetists preparing for the FRCA and similar exams in other countries
Section 1 Basic Sciences
- General principles of pharmacology
- Data, statistics and clinical trials
- Inhalational anaesthetics and medical gases
- Intravenous anaesthetics and sedatives
- Local anaesthetics
- Pain
- Nausea and vomiting
- Muscle function and neuromuscular blockade
- Cardiovascular system
- Respiratory system
- Renal system
- Fluid, electrolyte and acid–base balance
- Metabolism, the stress response and thermoregulation
- Blood, coagulation and transfusion
Section 2 Physics and Apparatus
Section 3 Fundamentals of Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine
Section 4 Clinical Anaesthesia
- Edition: 7
- Published: May 14, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702075001
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702074998
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Jonathan Thompson
Jonathan Thompson is Honorary Professor and Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
Affiliations and expertise
Honorary Professor and Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UKIM
Iain Moppett
Iain Moppett is Professor of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist, Anaesthesia and Critical Care Section, Division of Clinical Neuroscience at University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine and Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist, University of Nottingham and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UKMW
Matthew Wiles
Matthew Wiles is a Consultant in the Department of Anaesthesia at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK