Anesthesia for the high risk patient /

Anesthesia for the high risk patient /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	2nd ed.
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Description:	xvi, 302 p.
Language:	English
Subject:	Anesthesia -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Anesthesia -- Complications -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Geriatric anesthesia -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Anesthesia. Anesthesia -- Complications. Geriatric anesthesia. Handbooks and manuals.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8208820

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Other authors / contributors:	McConachie, Ian.
ISBN:	9780521710183 (hardback) 0521710189 (hardback)
Notes:	Previous ed.: 2002. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Preface
Contributors
Abbreviations
1. Risk and risk assessment
2. Lessons from anesthetic audits and epidemiological studies
3. Assessment of cardiovascular risk
4. Perioperative use of cardiac medications in the high-risk patient
5. Pharmaco-physiological approaches to the high-risk surgical patient
6. Respiratory risk and complications
7. Analgesia for the high-risk patient
8. Regional anesthesia for the high-risk patient
9. Anemia, coagulopathy and blood transfusion
10. The obese or malnourished patient
11. Smoking, alcohol and recreational drug abuse
12. Identification of the deteriorating patient in the perioperative period
13. Perioperative renal insufficiency and failure
14. The critically ill patient undergoing surgery
15. The elderly patient
16. The patient with cardiac disease undergoing noncardiac surgery
17. Vascular surgery
18. Gastrointestinal surgery
Index