Your awareness of uncommon diseases and possible complications is vital to successful anesthetic patient management. Anesthesia and Uncommon Diseases, 6th Edition, brings you up to date with new information on less commonly seen diseases and conditions, including the latest evidence and management guidelines. This unique medical reference book is essential for a complete understanding of today's best options and potential difficulties in anesthesia. Improve your ability to successfully manage every patient, including those with rare diseases or conditions. Avoid complications with unique coverage of an important aspect of anesthetic management. Access the complete contents and illustrations online at www.expertconsult.com - fully searchable! Stay current with all-new chapters on adult congenital heart disease, rheumatic diseases, and the cancer patient, plus many more revisions throughout. Get outstanding visual guidance with hundreds of illustrations, now in full color. Understand uncommon diseases to avoid anesthetic complications!
A unique text focusing on unusual conditions and their relation to anesthesiology. The 4th Edition has been updated and completely reorganized. New features of this edition include a user-friendly presentation, with chapters arranged according to anatomic site, patient type, and systemic disorder. The book also contains over 200 entirely new illustrations. Organizes material into 3 distinct sections-- by organ system, by type of patient, and by mulit-system disease/problems. Includes an outline at the beginning of each chapter. Presents the pathopyciology of the disease first, followed by the anesthetic management. Two new chapters--Uncommon Problems Related to Cancer and Uncommon Poisonings and Intoxications. Up-to-date and rewritten coverage throught, as well as many new contributors. New illustrations for critical considerations.
Now with new coverage of pediatric topics and fully revised chapters, most by new contributors, this new edition provides the latest knowledge and techniques. Includes a new, more user-friendly page layout with algorithms, shaded boxes, and "Most Common" lists.
Your awareness of uncommon diseases and possible complications is vital to successful anesthetic patient management. Anesthesia and Uncommon Diseases, 6th Edition, brings you up to date with new information on less commonly seen diseases and conditions, including the latest evidence and management guidelines. This unique medical reference book is essential for a complete understanding of today’s best options and potential difficulties in anesthesia. Improve your ability to successfully manage every patient, including those with rare diseases or conditions. Avoid complications with unique coverage of an important aspect of anesthetic management. Stay current with all-new chapters on adult congenital heart disease, rheumatic diseases, and the cancer patient, plus many more revisions throughout. Get outstanding visual guidance with hundreds of illustrations, now in full color.
This portable handbook provides comprehensive, clinically relevant information on nearly 100 uncommon diseases. It places all the information you need for expert care in a concise, easy-to-use format, right at your fingertips. This new title contains knowledge of these disorders that is crucial to ensuring safe and effective patient care and anesthesia administration. Consistent, easy-to-use format includes definition, incidence, etiology, signs and symptoms, medical management, complications, and anesthesia implications for each disease to help you find what you need quickly. With its small size, this book is perfect for reference in the operating room and PACU environment. Summary tables and boxes throughout the book quickly outline important information to help you easily find information. Written by an experienced clinical expert, this reference includes the most current and accurate information available.
