The overall objective of the book is to assist students in understanding the science of anaesthesia rather than subject them to recipes, which will turn doctors into technicians
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Authors
- 01: The anaesthetic machine
- 02: Anaesthetic breathing systems
- 03: Monitoring in anaesthesia
- 04: Principles of premedication
- 05: General autonomic nervous system pharmacology
- 06: Intravenous anaesthetic drugs
- 07: Inhalation anaesthetic drugs
- 08: The pharmacokinetics of inhaled anaesthetic drugs
- 09: Neuromuscular blocking drugs
- 10: The opioids
- 11: Drug interactions
- 12: Airway management
- 13: Perioperative fluid therapy in the adult
- 14: Anaesthesia and the lung
- 15: The cardiovascular system and anaesthesia
- 16: Anaesthesia and the central nervous system
- 17: Anaesthesia for ear, nose and throat procedures
- 18: The kidney and anaesthesia
- 19: Perioperative management of selected endocrine disorders
- 20: The liver and anaesthesia
- 21: Paediatric anaesthesia
- 22: Anaesthesia for the obstetric patient
- 23: Anaesthesia for laparoscopic surgery
- 24: Basic concepts in regional anaesthesia
- 25: Obesity
- 26: Conscious sedation
- 27: Postoperative nausea and vomiting
- 28: Malignant hyperthermia
- 29: Porphyria
- 30: Geriatric anaesthesia
- 31: Acute and postoperative pain
- 32: General resuscitation
- 33: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- 34: Mechanical ventilation