Handbook of Nurse Anesthesia, 4th Edition provides fully updated clinical information on common diseases, the latest diagnostic and surgical procedures, and common drugs - all in a format that fits neatly in your pocket. You'll turn to this handbook daily for fast guidance on on case management, disease processes, drugs, and anesthetic care considerations for a variety of surgical procedures.
• Three efficiently organized sections-Common Diseases, Common Procedures, and Drugs-help you quickly locate key content.
• Drugs are organized by their generic names, allowing you to instantly find them to review trade names, indications, anesthetic considerations, pharmacokinetics, precautions, contraindications, dosages, and adverse effects.
• Common diseases encountered in surgical patients are described in detail with entries that include definition, incidence, prevalence, etiology, lab results, clinical manifestations, treatment, anesthetic considerations, and prognosis.
• Coverage of common procedures provides a brief description, preoperative assessments (including health history, physical assessment, and patient preparation), anesthetic technique. perioperative management, and postoperative implications.
• Quick reviews of the latest surgical procedures include protocols perioperative management, and postoperative implications.
• Two new sections provide quick access to essential information on neonatal anesthetic procedures and complications.