Highly regarded by anesthesiologists, residents, and nurse anesthetists, Essence of Anesthesia Practice, 4th Edition by Drs. Lee A. Fleisher, Michael F. Roizen, and Jeffrey Roizen, is a trusted resource for point-of-care anesthesia management. Concise, easy-to-find summaries cover a single clinical topic for both common and rare conditions. A renewed focus on diseases and drugs makes this edition even more useful when formulating anesthesia plans and mastering the core knowledge of anesthesia practice. - Features a unique, easy-to-follow, consistent format that covers a single clinical topic on each page, with a review of its problems, causes, comorbidities, and anesthesia implications. - Helps you understand the interactions of common drugs and alternative medicine so that you can develop effective anesthesia plans. - Includes more than 105 new disease topics (with more coverage of rarer diseases) and new drug information featuring 20 new drugs that patients take on an outpatient basis. - Offers fresh insights on nearly 550 topics – many authored by new contributors to this edition. - Keeps you current with the latest perioperative anesthetic implications including anticipated problems, drug interactions, and special concerns. - Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, videos (including video updates), glossary, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Every page covers a single clinical topic - over 550 in all - presenting important information in an extremely accessible fashion. A consistent format allows for efficient consultation. Divided into 4 sections - Diseases, Procedures, Drugs, and Tests - Essence of Anesthesia Practice allows you to approach a given problem from any of these directions to find the answers you need. Key references point the way to further reading.

Computer disk contains guidelines for preoperative assessment, care plan templates that can be personalized by each student, laboratory values, commonly used drugs and dosages, and many other clinical references.

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