Essence of Anesthesia Practice: Expert Consult — Online and Print

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.

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.

Michael F. Roizen, MD, The University of Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago IL; and Lee A. Fleisher, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD