Clinical Anesthesia Procedures of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital

Relied on for over 20 years by resident and practicing anesthesiologists and CRNAs, this best-selling pocket reference is now in its Seventh Edition. In easy-to-scan outline format, it provides current, comprehensive, concise, consistent, and clinically relevant guidelines for anesthesia procedures throughout the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative periods and in the ICU. The book has been written, reviewed, updated, and field-tested by the internationally recognized anesthesia department of the Massachusetts General Hospital.

This edition includes new information on quality assessment, patient safety, the electronic medical record, and new techniques and medications. A new design makes information easier to access. An alphabetical drug appendix is also included.

A PDA version of this edition will also be available. See PDA listing for details.


Table Of Contents
Evaluating the Patient Before Anesthesia
Mary Kraft and Stephanie L. Roundtree

Specific Considerations with Cardiac Disease
Hovig Chitilian and Johnica Eyvazzadeh

Specific Considerations with Pulmonary Disease
Ricardo R. Rivera and Kenneth E. Shepherd

Specific Considerations with Renal Disease
Ward Reynolds Maier and Jason M. Isa

Specific Considerations with Liver Disease
Stacey Lynn Remchuk and Wilton C. Levine

Specific Considerations with Endocrine Disease
Robin Kelly Guillory, Robert A. Peterfreund, and Stephanie L. Lee

Infectious Diseases and Infection Control in Anesthesia
Rebecca Aslakson and Judith Hellman

Safety in Anesthesia
Sara Naomi Goldhaber-Fiebert and Jeffrey B. Cooper

The Anesthesia Machine
Greg Ginsburg and Jane C. Ballantyne

Monitoring
Arthur J. Tokarczyk and Warren S. Sandberg

Intravenous and Inhalation Anesthetics
Owais Saifee and Ken Solt

Neuromuscular Blockade
Jaianand S. Sethee and Peter F. Dunn

Airway Evaluation and Management
Matthew W. Zeleznik and Peter F. Dunn

Administration of General Anesthesia
Stuart A. Forman and Roy P.H. Yang

Local Anesthetics
Ping Jin and Jeannie C. Min

Spinal, Epidural, and Caudal Anesthesia
May Pian-Smith and Takefumi Nishida

Regional Anesthesia
Deepal Sidhu and George Pasvankas

Intra-anesthetic Problems
Keith Baker and Deborah A. Stadfelt

Perioperative Hemodynamic Control
Vilma Ortiz and Philip K. Lau

Anesthesia for Abdominal Surgery
Marjorie A. Podraza and John J.A. Marota

Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery
Paul A. Alfille and Jeanna Viola

Anesthesia for Vascular Surgery
Edward Bittner and Michael David Kaufman

Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery
Edwin G. Avery and George A. Mashour

Anesthesia for Neurosurgery
Michele Szabo and George A. Mashour

Anesthesia for Head and Neck Surgery
Tzuhao Harry Wu and Martin A. Acquadro

Anesthesia for Urologic Surgery
William R. Kimball and Ross Blank

Anesthesia for Geriatric Patients
Zhongcong Xie and Jill Lanahan

Anesthesia for Surgical Emergencies in the Neonate
Jesse Roberts and Ion Hobai

Anesthesia for Pediatric Surgery
Susan Vassallo and Hemanth A. Baboolal

Anesthesia for Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ritu Kapoor, Jeannie C. Min, and Lisa Leffert

Ambulatory Anesthesia
Sissela Park and Lisa Warren

Anesthesia Outside of the Operating Room
John J.A. Marota

Anesthesia for Trauma and Burns
Keith Baker and Ala Nozari

Transfusion Therapy
Rae Allain and Jonathan E. Charnin

The Postanesthesia Care Unit
Loreta Grecu and Dragos Diaconescu

Perioperative Respiratory Failure
Luca M. Bigatello and Amy Lu

Adult, Pediatric, and Newborn Resuscitation
Bradley E. Randel and Richard M. Pino

Pain
Salahadin Abdi and Adrian Hamburger

Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Margaret Gargarian, P. Grace Harrell, and Meraj M. Mohiuddin

Ethical and End-of-Life Issues
Rae Allain and Aalok Agarwala

Appendix I: Supplementary Drug Information
Jonathan G. Hsiao and Eric Corey Matten

Appendix II: Normal Laboratory Values for Blood
Jonathan G. Hsiao and Eric Corey Matten