Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures

Stanford Univ., CA. Text/reference for devising an anesthetic plan best suited for the individual patient and the surgery planned. For the anesthesiologist who is confronted by new surgeons and unfamiliar surgical procedures. Includes six new chapters and 70 new surgical procedures. Previous edition: c1994. Most contributors are from Univ. of Stanford. DNLM: Anesthesia--methods.

'covers new techniques and procedures such as robotic cases'
'covers a wide range of procedures broken down by specialty'
'The strong points of the book are its organization, its ease of use when trying to identify a certain procedure, and the clarity of its presentation of what the procedure entails and its anesthetic implications'
'illustrations do a good job of helping to clarify any anatomy/procedural confusion and are of excellent quality'
'help anesthesiologists anticipate critical events and problems that may arise'
'truly the gold standard for anesthesiologists wanting to know about the surgical procedures that they staff.'
 
-Doodys Publishers' Club, Friday, July 11, 2014

'achieves the rare didactic feat of enriching what you know while also deeply shaping how you think about what you know.'
'Each procedure is helpfully and consistently organized into preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative sections.'
'the reader is empowered to approach novel cases with a clear sense of what questions to ask, facilitating high-yield discussion and targeted literature review'
'this is a book that is not just meant to be read—it can actually be used!'
'the digital platform provides exactly the sort of portability and manipulability that the current and upcoming generations of anesthesiology trainees seek.'
 
Douglas Hale McMichael, M.D., Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, Anesthesiology, V 22, No 4, April 2015