Day-Case Anaesthesia & Sedation: Anaesthesia & Sedation for Day-Case Procedures & Ambulatory Surgery Book

	Contributors
	Foreword
	Preface
1	History and Scope of Day-Case Anaesthesia: Past, Present and Future	3
2	Pharmacology and Day-Case Anaesthesia	20
3	Pharmacological Principles in Paediatric Patients	58
4	Anaphylactic and Anaphylactoid Reactions	69
5	Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation	87
6	Methods for Assessment of Recovery	104
7	Safe Endoscopy	118
8	Management of Diabetic Day-Case Patients	133
9	Pain Treatment in the Day-Care Unit	138
10	The Future: the Effect of Minimally Invasive Therapy on Day-Case Anaesthesia	151
11	Adult Day-Case Anaesthesia	165
12	Laparoscopy and its Complications	202
13	Ophthalmic Day-Case Anaesthesia	212
14	General Anaesthesia for Outpatient Dentistry	226
15	Local Anaesthesia in Day-Case Surgery	238
16	Sedation and Sedoanalgesia	262
17	Patient Controlled Sedation	275
18	Anaesthetic Circuits and Ventilation Systems	289
19	General Principles of Paediatric Day-Case Anaesthesia	303
20	General Anaesthesia for Paediatric Day-Case Surgery	313
21	Local Anaesthesia for Paediatric Day-Case Surgery	332
22	Issues Involved in Safe Practice	347
23	Nursing and Unit Organization	369
24	Legal Aspects of Day-Case Surgery	383
25	The Practitioner, the Anaesthetist and the Law	389
	App. 1 Criteria for Day-Cases and Outpatients	399
	App. 2 Malignant Hyperpyrexia	400
	App. 3 High Frequency Ventilation/High Frequency Oscillation	404
	App. 4 Semantics of Day-Case Anaesthesia, Analgesia and Sedation	405
	App. 5 Bleeding Disorders and Day-Case Surgery	406
	App. 6 Sickle Disease	410
	App. 7 Summary of Patient Assessment and Process	412
	Index	416