Manual of Pediatric Anesthesia - Softcover

Steward MB BS FRCPC, David; Lerman MD FRCPC FANZCA, Jerrold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0443065624 ISBN 13: 9780443065620

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2001

Synopsis

This fifth edition of this classic manual has been thoroughly updated with much new information on new drugs and techniques, based on the latest research. The same pocket sized format has been retained, with helpful tables and appendices throughout. Complex surgical conditions have been expanded, with new minimally-invasive techniques now included. There is a new section of chronic pain problems, as well as a new section on anesthesia outside the operating room. This is an authored book, not edited, with a consistent uniform style throughout. There is a new co-author for this edition, Jerrold Lerman.

New information on pathophysiology of surgical disease

Expanded sections on sedation for medical procedures and anesthesia outside the operating room

More emphasis on pediatric acute pain management

More tables and algorithms

Index of syndromes updated and expanded

Features information on recently introduced drugs used in pediatric anesthesia as well as new information on the pathophysiology of surgical disease.

Discusses anesthesias and procedures outside of the operating room in a new chapter

Covers the lastest advances in intraoperative as well as postoperative pain management.

Explores the issue of anxiety and the parent/child/anesthesiologist relationship.

Provides more tables and algorithms for at-a-glance guidance.

Includes an expanded and updated index of syndromes and conditions and their implications for the anesthesiologist.

About this title

About the Author

David Stewart, MB, BS, FRCPC, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, Director, Department of Anesthesiology, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Jerrold Lerman, MD, Professor, Department of Anaesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Department of Anaesthesia, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, CA

Edition details

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443065624
• ISBN 13: 9780443065620
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 576