For over 40 years, this award-winning textbook has been the core text for anaesthetists new to the specialty and other healthcare professionals involved in perioperative care. Now in its eighth edition, this high quality, clinically relevant resource continues to offer essential reading covering all aspects of anaesthesia in surgery.

Covering day-to-day clinical practice in anaesthesia and perioperative medicine, from preoperative assessment and optimisation to clinical anaesthesia and postoperative care, this practical guide also contains an overview of the scientific principles that underpin these practices. It includes topics such as relevant pharmacology and basic physiology; data analysis and statistics; physics; equipment and monitoring; safety and quality assurance; general, regional and local anaesthetic techniques for a full range of surgical specialties. In combining these aspects, it has been an invaluable resource for generations of anaesthetists.

Fully updated and now accompanied by ancillary videos, this book is ideal for all trainee anaesthetists including candidates for the Fellowship of Royal College of Anaesthetists and similar examinations.

• Highly regarded internationally
• Aligned to the FRCA syllabus – including the updated FRCA syllabus references linked to the relevant content of each chapter in the online ebook
• Offers clear, concise and practical coverage of all aspects of anaesthesia and perioperative care, including intensive care and chronic pain management
• Chapters extensively cross referenced for the reader

Review

Essential reading for all trainee anaesthetists

Contents

۱. General principles of pharmacology
۲. Data, statistics and clinical trials
۳. Inhalational anaesthetic agents and medical gases
۴. Intravenous anaesthetic and sedative drugs
۵. Local anaesthetics
۶. Physiology and pharmacology of pain
۷. Nausea and vomiting
۸. Muscle function and neuromuscular block
۹. Cardiovascular system
۱۰. Respiratory system
۱۱. Renal system
۱۲. Fluid, electrolyte and acid–base balance
۱۳. Metabolism, stress responses and thermoregulation
۱۴. Blood, coagulation and transfusion
۱۵. Basic physics for the anaesthetist

۱۶. Anaesthetic apparatus
۱۷. Clinical measurement and monitoring
۱۸. Quality and safety in anaesthesia
۱۹. Preoperative assessment and preparation
۲۰. Intercurrent disease and anaesthesia
۲۱. Consent and information for patients
۲۲. The practical conduct of anaesthesia
۲۳. Airway management
۲۴. Pain management
۲۵. Local and regional anaesthetic techniques
۲۶. Complications during anaesthesia
۲۷. Management of critical incidents
۲۸. Resuscitation
۲۹. Point-of-care ultrasound
۳۰. Postoperative and recovery room care

۳۱. Sustainability
۳۲. Anaesthesia for the older person and/or those living with frailty
۳۳. Anaesthesia for the patient with obesity
۳۴. Paediatric anaesthesia
۳۵. Anaesthesia for day surgery
۳۶. Anaesthesia for general, gynaecological and genitourinary surgery
۳۷. Anaesthesia for orthopaedic surgery
۳۸. Anaesthesia for ear, nose and throat, maxillofacial and dental surgery
۳۹. Anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery
۴۰. Anaesthesia for vascular, endocrine and plastic surgery
۴۱. Anaesthesia for neurosurgery
۴۲. Anaesthesia for thoracic surgery
۴۳. Anaesthesia for cardiac surgery
۴۴. Obstetric anaesthesia
۴۵. Emergency and trauma anaesthesia
۴۶. Anaesthesia in resource-poor areas
۴۷. Anaesthesia outside the operating theatre
۴۸. Anaesthesia and organ transplantation
۴۹. Intensive care

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