Essence of Anesthesia Practice - Text/PDA Package - Softcover

Fleisher MD, Lee A.; Roizen MD, Michael F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0721697682 ISBN 13: 9780721697680

Publisher: Saunders, 2002

Synopsis

Here's remarkably convenient access to essential anesthesia considerations for a full range of common and uncommon diseases. Every page covers a single clinical topic-over 600 in all-presenting important information in an extremely accessible fashion. Divided into 5 sections-Diseases

Procedures

Drugs

Alternative Medicine

and Tests, with topics within each section organized alphabetically-this resource allows readers to approach a given problem from any of these directions to find the answers they need. The 2nd Edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to encompass the latest developments in the field.

As well as getting this brilliant reference this package allows you to get the entire book on CD-ROM that can be quickly and easily downloaded onto your PDA

Offers a one-of-a-kind format in which relevant information can be found in the same place on each page.

Features an international team of expert contributing authors-ensuring information is state-of-the-art and reliable.

Describes common drugs and alternative medicine drugs taken by patients that must be considered before anesthetizing.

Includes detailed coverage on both the common and rare conditions patients present with and how the anesthesiologist must consider each.

Features comprehensive, significant revisions throughout, including more than 110 brand-new topics.

Includes coverage of all the latest topics including calcium channel blockers

ginseng

vitamin D deficiency

melatonin

latex allergy

endovascular aortic stent repairs

St. Johns Wort

and GI endoscopy.

Contains a new section devoted to alternative medicine.

About this title

About the Author

Michael F. Roizen, MD, Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice President of Biomedical Affairs, Professor of Internal Medicine and Anesthesiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY; and Lee A. Fleisher, MD, Associate Professor and Vice-Chairman for Clinical Investigation, Department of Anesthesiology, Joint Appointments in Biomedical Information Sciences, Health Policy and Management and Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD; With 500 additional contributors

Edition details

• Publisher: Saunders
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0721697682
• ISBN 13: 9780721697680
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 640