Handbook of Anesthetics and Perioper Book

	Preface
Pt. 1	Anaesthesia and Perioperative Care
1	Survey of anaesthetic techniques: historical notes	1
2	Principles of pharmacology and autonomic physiology relevant to anaesthesia and intensive care	11
3	Preoperative management: assessment and premedication	52
4	The process of anaesthesia: the doctor's and the patient's perception	80
5	Perioperative fluid management: blood and colloid administration, coagulation disorders	87
6	Perioperative drugs	112
7	Postoperative nausea and vomiting and the stress response to surgery	131
8	The 'nuts and bolts' of anaesthetic machines, tubes, ventilators, infusion pumps and defibrillators	143
9	Practical aspects: airway, drips and chest drains	159
10	Monitoring: blood pressures, cardiac output and electrocardiogram, pulse oximetry, capnography and temperature	181
11	Accidents and complications of anaesthesia and surgery	200
12	Special problems in anaesthesia	210
Pt. 2	Pain Management and Local Analgesic Techniques
13	Approaches to management of acute and chronic pain	235
14	Techniques in regional analgesia	265
Pt. 3	Intensive care
15	What is intensive care?	281
16	Acid-base balance, blood gases and arterial puncture	286
17	Oxygen therapy and oxygen toxicity	298
18	Acute respiratory failure	307
19	Acute circulatory failure: shock and cardiac arrest	318
20	Acute renal failure, temperature disturbances and nutrition	344
21	Head injury, multiple trauma, burns and poisoning	355
	Tables of useful values and formulae	375
	Glossary	384
	Multiple choice questionnaire and answers	387
	Further reading	392
	Index	393