DESCRIPTION:
PRACTICAL, HANDS-ON GUIDE TO THE FUNDAMENTALS AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF CARDIOTHORACIC ANESTHESIOLOGY.
* Clearly organized into preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative sections covering diagnostics, anesthetic management, and physiologic and pharmacologic principles.
* Describes most of the diagnostic and evaluation methods currently used for patients with cardiothoracic disease.
* Explains the basic principles of the diagnostic methodology and the various diagnostic tests compares values relative to other techniques and reports their limitations.
* Blends fundamental applications of anesthesiology with a practical focus.
* Encompasses a broad range of thoracic topics not treated in other references, including medastinal, esophageal, tracheal, lung, airway, aortic and pericardial surgeries.
CONTENTS:
Sec. I Preparing the Patient for Surgery.
Sec. II Intraoperative Management.
Sec. III Postoperative Care.