Description
Overview
A Practice of Anesthesia in Infants and Children, 6th Edition, is a comprehensive guide covering everything from preoperative evaluation to neonatal emergencies to the PACU. The book offers state-of-the-art advice on the safe, effective administration of general and regional anesthesia to young patients. It reviews underlying scientific information, addresses preoperative assessment and anesthesia management in detail, and provides guidelines for postoperative care, emergencies, and special procedures.
Key Features
- Includes a laminated pocket reference guide with essential, practical information.
- Features key references at the end of each chapter that provide a quick summary for review.
- Presents must-know information on standards, techniques, and the latest advances in pediatric anesthesia from global experts.
- Provides access to a video library of 70 pediatric anesthesia procedures – 35 are new.
- Features extensive revisions of all chapters with many new contributors, and numerous new figures and tables throughout.
- Introduces new drugs used to premedicate children and facilitate emergence from anesthesia, plus an up-to-date discussion of the drug approval process and detailed information on opioid safety for children with obstructive sleep.
- Includes new chapters on pharmacogenomic implications of drugs in children and the anesthetic implications when caring for children with cancer.
- Offers up-to-date information on the management of emergence agitation, sleep-disordered breathing, neonatal and pediatric emergencies, and the obese child and bariatric surgery.
- Contains significant updates on perioperative fluid management, pharmacology, intravenous anesthesia and target controlled infusions, cystic fibrosis, new interventional devices for children with congenital heart defects, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, simulation in pediatric anesthesia, and much more.
- Enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
Highlights
The book includes a video library showcasing 70 pediatric anesthesia procedures, 35 of which are new. It also features new chapters on pharmacogenomic implications of drugs in children and the anesthetic implications when caring for children with cancer. The book offers an enhanced eBook experience that allows the reader to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on
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