A Practice of Anesthesia for Infants and Children Covering everything from preoperative evaluation to neonatal emergencies to the PACU, Coté, Lerman and Anderson’s A Practice of Anesthesia in Infants and Children, 7th Edition, features state-of-the-art advice on the safe, effective administration of general and regional anesthesia and sedation strategies for young patients. This text reviews underlying scientific information, addresses preoperative assessment and anesthesia management in detail, and provides guidelines for postoperative care, emergencies, and special procedures. Comprehensive in scope and thoroughly up to date, this edition delivers unsurpassed coverage of every key aspect of pediatric anesthesia.

• Presents must-know information on standards, techniques, and the latest advances in pediatric anesthesia from global experts in the field.
• Contains thoroughly updated content throughout, with new contributors to lend a fresh perspective, updated figures and tables, and the latest information on perioperative fluid management, pharmacology, interventional devices, resuscitation, and more.
• Covers key topics such as anesthetizing children with cancer, neonatal and pediatric emergencies, the obese child and bariatric surgery, interventional devices for children with congenital heart defects, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, simulation in pediatric anesthesia, patient safety and quality assurance, and more.
• Features an extensive video library of pediatric anesthesia procedures, particularly difficult airway management strategies, new positioning devices, cardiac assist devices in action, management of burn injuries, how to perform ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia blocks and techniques, and much more.
• Essentials chapters provide focused input from expert subspecialty pediatricians who share the latest information concerning hematology, pulmonology, oncology, hepatology, nephrology, and neurology.
• Includes a laminated pocket reference guide with essential, practical information, and key references at the end of each chapter that provide a quick summary for review.

Contents

۱. Growth and development
۲. Preoperative evaluation, premedication, and induction of anesthesia
۳. Ethical issues in pediatric anesthesiology
۴. Pharmacogenomics
۵. Pharmacology of drugs used in children
۶. Total intravenous anesthesia and target-controlled infusion
۷. Fluid management
۸. Essentials of hematology
۹. Perioperative management of the oncology patient
۱۰. Strategies for blood product management, reducing transfusions, and massive blood transfusion
۱۱. Essentials of pulmonology
۱۲. The pediatric airway
۱۳. Anesthesia for thoracic surgery
۱۴. Essentials of cardiology
۱۵. Anesthesia for children undergoing heart surgery
۱۶. Cardiac physiology and pharmacology
۱۷. Cardiopulmonary bypass and management
۱۸. Medications for hemostasis
۱۹. Mechanical circulatory support
۲۰. Interventional cardiology
۲۱. Anesthesia for noncardiac surgery in children with congenital heart disease
۲۲. Essentials of neurology and neuromuscular disorders
۲۳. Surgery, anesthesia, and the immature brain
۲۴. Pediatric neurosurgical anesthesia
۲۵. Essentials of endocrinology
۲۶. Essentials of nephrology
۲۷. General abdominal and urologic surgery
۲۸. Essentials of hepatology
۲۹. Organ transplantation
۳۰. Orthopedic and spine surgery
۳۱. Otorhinolaryngologic procedures
۳۲. Ophthalmologic surgery
۳۳. Plastic and reconstructive surgery
۳۴. Burn injuries
۳۵. The extremely premature infant (micropremie) and common neonatal emergencies
۳۶. Fetal intervention and the exit procedure
۳۷. Trauma and mass casualties
۳۸. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
۳۹. Malignant hyperthermia
۴۰. Regional anesthesia
۴۱. Acute pain
۴۲. Chronic pain
۴۳. Anesthesia outside the operating room
۴۴. Sedation for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures outside the operating room
۴۵. The post anesthesia care unit and beyond
۴۶. Procedures for vascular access
۴۷. Infectious disease considerations for the operating room
۴۸. Pediatric anesthesia in developing countries
۴۹. Pediatric equipment and monitoring
۵۰. Simulation in pediatric anesthesia