Perioperative care is the care that is given before and after surgery. This textbook is a complete guide to the anaesthetic and critical care management of patients undergoing complex surgeries in all organ systems of the body. Topics cover all age groups – neonates, children, and adults. Divided into 11 sections, the book begins with a general overview of critical care in the perioperative period discussing airway management, pain, fluid and electrolyte therapy, shock, arterial blood gas analysis, respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation, and thromboembolism. The following sections cover surgeries in different organ systems and patient groups – cardiothoracic and vascular, neurosciences, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, orthopaedics, head and neck, and transplantation. The final section explains selected miscellaneous topics including nutrition, haemodynamic monitoring, echocardiography, renal replacement therapy, and antibiotics. Compiling 700 pages, the comprehensive text is further enhanced by clinical photographs, diagrams and tables. Key points Comprehensive guide to perioperative critical care in neonates, children and adults Covers complex surgeries in all organ systems Includes discussion on imaging, airway management, and ventilation Highly illustrated with clinical photographs, diagrams and tables

This book details topics of particular importance to critical care cardiovascular diagnosis and management in the perioperative period. It represents an important update for anaesthesiologists, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, emergency care physicians and intensivists caring for patients with acute, life-threatening cardiovascular afflictions

This authoritative reference published under the auspices of the American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (ASCCA) is now in its Second Edition. More than 100 internationally recognized experts present state-of-the-art strategies for successful, cost-effective perioperative care and management of acutely ill patients.This thoroughly revised edition features many distinguished new contributors from anesthesiology, critical care medicine, internal medicine, surgery, and pediatrics. Timely new chapters cover medical informatics, evidence-based medicine, human genomics, research in critical care medicine, and imaging in the ICU. Chapters on acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, and other diseases have been rewritten to reflect recent technological and therapeutic breakthroughs.

A distinguished list of contributors from some of the major international centers covers this specialty like never before. With recent advances in ultrasound technology and pharmacology the expertise required to care for a critically ill child with heart disease takes an integrated approach with a multidisciplinary team and central focus. This resource provides comprehensive discussions of pertinent cardiac issues in the ICU setting with emphasis on perioperative care.

Aim of the volume is to describe the intensive control of the cardiologic patient. Mechanisms concerning cardiovascular emodynamics and interpretation of cardiovascular function in the perioperative period and in intensive care are described. Particular importance is given to diagnosis and treatment of the so-called dangerous arrhythmias in the perioperative period, to cardiac rhythm disturbances caused by drugs overdose and by electrolytic alterations.

Utilizing a problem-oriented, multi-specialty approach to perioperative medicine, Perioperative Care: Anesthesia, Medicine, and Surgery, is a unique source of practical information on the total care of the operative patient. This useful handbook brings you up to speed on the most important topics in this relatively new specialty, including surgical advances - including laparoscopic procedures and transplantation; new viewpoints on high-risk patients; outcomes, cost-effectiveness, and quality control; and medical-legal implications of perioperative consultation. The author team, many of whom are dual board certified in anesthesiology as well as surgery and internal medicine, takes you step-by-step through the entire perioperative process - from pre-op to intra-op to post-op. The entire clinical process is examined from the viewpoint of all the involved specialties. Perioperative Care: Anesthesia, Medicine, and Survey is ideal for anesthesiologists, surgeons, and primary care physicians, as well as all medical subspecialists involved in managing patients in the perioperative period.

A practical, clinical book that clearly enunciates safe delivery of babies when anesthesia is used. Topics include monitoring the maternal (indirect) and fetal (direct) perinatal management of obstetric emergencies, premature delivery, twins, and breech presentation; neonatal intensive care; and more.