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Pediatric Anesthesia Handbook puts the best answers on controlling pain in your pocket.
In this convenient resource--perfect for your lab coat pocket--leading pediatric anesthesiologists put succinct, up-to-date advice on both routine and nonroutine cases at your fingertips.
* Covers young patients in and out of the operating room
* Provides easy access to current practice in pain management, sedation, and peri-operative monitoring and assessment
* Helps you resolve complex issues involving multiple trauma, blocked airways, heart and birth defects, allergies, and other conditions in hard-to-manage situations
* Offers appropriate laboratory and radiologic tests for children
* Discusses post-operative pain management
* Guides you on ethical, legal, and family issues
More than a source of quick facts you need immediately to provide care for sick and injured children, this problem-oriented Handbook is an excellent way to keep abreast of the latest options, controversies, and alternatives in clinical pediatric anesthesia.
Synopsis
A quick-access, pocket guide that provides anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists with a wide range of important procedures for treating pediatric patients in and out of the OR.
About the Author
McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Risk and Outcome in Pediatric Anesthesia
Chapter 2: Ethical and Legal Issues in Pediatric Care
Chapter 3: Selecting the Suitable Pediatric Outpatient
Chapter 4: Appropriate Laboratory and Radiologic Testing in Children
Chapter 5: Preanesthetic Sedation for Pediatric Patients Lacking Intravenous Access
Chapter 6: Providing for the Child, Parent, and Family in Difficult Situations
Chapter 7: The Child With Respiratory Problems
Chapter 8: The Child With Stridor
Chapter 9: Perioperative Management of the Former Preterm Infant
Chapter 10: Management of the Child with a Difficult Airway
Chapter 11: The Child With Congenital Heart Disease
Chapter 12: Dysrhythmias in the Pediatric Patient
Chapter 13: Anesthetic Considerations for the Child With Multiple Trauma
Chapter 14: Management of the Child With Thermal Injury
Chapter 15: The Child With Cancer
Chapter 16: The Child With Neurosurgial Problems
Chapter 17: Systemic Disorders Commonly Seen in Pediatric Anesthesia
Chapter 18: The Child With Allergies
Chapter 19: The Four Hs: Hypertension, Hypotension, Hypoxia, and Hypercardia
Chapter 20: Blood Salvage and Conservation Techniques in Children
Chapter 21: Malignant Hyperthermia in Pediatric Anesthesia
Chapter 22: Monitoring and Discharge Criteria From the Recovery Room
Chapter 23: Problems With Pediatric Postoperative Pain Control
Chapter 24: The Anesthesiologist and Sedation: Who, What, When, and Why?