Smith's Anesthesia for Infants and Children

Description:


Written and edited by renowned experts in pediatric anesthesia, Smith's Anesthesia for Infants and Children provides clear, concise guidance on effective perioperative care for any type of pediatric surgery. The 10th Edition contains significantly revised content throughout, bringing you fully up to date with recent advances in clinical and basic science that have led to changes in today’s clinical practice. 

Key Features:

Offers comprehensive coverage of physiology, pharmacology, and clinical anesthetic management of infants and children of all ages. 

Contains new chapters on Airway Physiology and Development, Normal and Difficult Airway Management, Ultrasound, Acute Pain Management, Chronic Pain Management, Palliative Pain Management, Infectious Diseases, and Education; plus extensively revised content on cardiovascular physiology; induction, maintenance, and recovery; organ transplantation, and more. 

Features more than 100 video demonstrations, including regional anesthesia videos, echocardiograms of congenital heart lesions, anatomic dissections of various congenital heart specimens with audio explanations, various pediatric surgical operative procedures, airway management, and much more. 

Provides outstanding visual guidance throughout, including full-color photographs, drawings, graphs and charts, and radiographic images. 

Includes quick-reference appendices online: drug dosages, growth curves, normal values for pulmonary function tests, and a listing of common and uncommon syndromes. 

Provides an interactive question bank online for review and self-assessment. 

Enhanced digital version included with purchase. Your enhanced digital allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Table Of Contents:

PART I Basic Principles and Physiology 1. Special Characteristics of Pediatric Anesthesia 2. Behavioral Development 3. Respiratory Physiology 4. Airway Physiology and Development 5. Cardiovascular Physiology 6. Regulation of Fluids and Electrolytes 7. Thermoregulation PART II Pharmacology 8. Developmental Pharmacology 9. Intravenous Anesthetics 10. Inhaled Anesthetics 11. Local Anesthetics 12. Opioids 13. Neuromuscular Blocking Agents 14. Anesthetic Adjuncts PART III General Approach 15. Psychological Aspects of Pediatric Anesthesia 16. Preoperative Preparation 17. Equipment 18. Monitoring 19. Normal and Difficult Airway Management 20. Ultrasound 21. Induction, Maintenance, and Recovery 22. Blood Conservation and Transfusion Medicine PART IV Pain Management 23. Acute Pain Management 24. Regional Anesthesia 25. Chronic Pain Management 26. Palliative Pain Management PART V Clinical Management of Specialized Surgical Problems 27. Neonatology for Anesthesiologists 28. Anesthesia for General Surgery in Neonates 29. Anesthesia for Fetal Surgery 30. Anesthesia for Congenital Heart Disease 31. Anesthesia for Neurosurgery 32. Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery 33. Anesthesia for General Abdominal, Urologic 34. ENT 35. Plastic Surgery 36. ANESTHESIA FOR PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY 37. Opthalmology 38. Organ Transplantation 39. Conjoined Twins 40. Pediatric Trauma 41. Anesthesia for Burns 42. Dental Anesthesia 43. Anesthesia and Sedation for Out of OR Procedures 44. Pediatric Sedation 45. Anesthesia for Surgical Missions PART VI Systemic Disorders and Associated Problems 46. Endocrine Disorders 47. Respiratory Disorders 48. Cardiovascular Disease 49. Hematology and Coagulation Disorders 50. Oncologic Disorders 51. Genetic Muscular Disorders 52. Malignant Hyperthermia 53. Pediatric Obesity 54. Special Pediatric Disorders 55. Dermatology for the Anesthesiologist 56. Infectious Diseases PART VII Critical Care in Pediatric Anesthesia 57. CPR 58. Critical Care Medicine 59. CICU PART VIII Special topics 60. Patient Safety and Outcomes in Pediatric Anesthesia 61. History of Pediatric Anesthesia 62. Medicolegal and Ethical Aspects 63. Education 64. Statistics