Perioperative Fluid Management

This revised and expanded second edition presents the most recent evidence-based facts on perioperative fluid management and discusses fluid management from basic sciences to clinical applications and the patients’ outcomes.

Recent advances in understanding the Revised Starling principle with new concepts in tissue perfusion and the most recent techniques of perioperative goal directed fluid management are described. The endothelial glycocalyx functions and the influence of fluid management on its integrity are covered in detail; moreover, the techniques for its protection are also discussed. The dilemma of perioperative use of hydroxyethyl starch solutions and the resurgence of interest in using human albumin as an alternative colloid is explored. The problems of using unbuffered solutions during the perioperative period and comparison between restrictive versus liberal fluid management are discussed in full. Lastly, case scenarios for every possible clinical situation describe the most up-to-date fluid management for the corresponding clinical problem.

Perioperative Fluid Management, Second Edition is of interest to anesthesiologists and also intensivists.

Dr. Ehab Farag MD FRCA FASA  is Professor of Anesthesiology in Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Director of Clinical Research in Department of General Anesthesiology within the Anesthesiology Institute of the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Farag has trained in UK where he received the Fellowship of the Royal College of Anesthetists. Dr. Farag completed his anesthesiology training at the Cleveland Clinic and received his fellowship training in Neuroanesthesia in Toronto Western hospital – Toronto University and Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Farag has published 50 peer review publications. Moreover, he edited and authored six books in Neuroanesthesia, Neurosciences, Regional Anesthesia and Fluid Management. Dr. Farag’s research is primarily focused in Neuroanesthesia, Regional Anesthesia and Fluid Management.

Dr Andrea Kurz MD is Vice-Chair for Research within the Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, OH, USA. She is a well-published author and internationally-recognized speaker.

Dr. Christopher A. Troianos MD, FASE, FASA is Professor and Chair of the Anesthesiology Institute at Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, in Cleveland, OH, USA. He is Past-President of Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, President-Elect of the National Board of Echocardiography, and an internationally-recognized speaker in perioperative echocardiography, cardiothoracic anesthesia, and practice management economics.