Anesthesia And Orthopaedic Surgery

The only book to offer detailed coverage of anesthetizing the patient undergoing orthopedic surgery This is the first book to cover in detail all of the techniques necessary for adequately assessing, monitoring, and anesthetizing the orthopedic patient. The text is supplemented with numerous evidence-based algorithms, tables, and management boxes Full of evidence-based algorithms and guidelines recently codified by the American Society of Anesthesia

This book is designed as a technical manual addressing the rapidly evolving subspecialty of anaesthesia for orthopaedic surgery patients. It is designed to demonstrate the interaction of surgery and anaesthesia and demonstrate how this interaction influences outcome. Providing a clinically useful integration of information about orthopaedic surgery and those anaesthesia techniques used for orthopaedic patients. Concise information on regional anaesthesia, local anaesthetics and common OR problems for orthopaedic cases is included. Surgical procedures and anaesthesia issues will be combined to provide a useful reference for the practicing clinician who occasionally has an orthopaedic case, as well as thoes members of the anaesthesia team assigned to these cases.

Although a number of comprehensive texts pertaining to perioperative medicine are available, this remains the only one that focuses specifically on the patient undergoing orthopedic surgery, now in a revised and expanded second edition. Beginning with chapters covering preoperative evaluations and general principles and practices of perioperative medicine, the book then considers anesthesiologic management in orthopedic surgery and the role of postoperative pain management. This is followed by a section on medical management in specific clinical settings, discussing patients with connective tissue disease, cardiac disease, chronic pulmonary and renal diseases, diabetes and neurological diseases, among others. A fourth section covers specific perioperative problems in orthopedic surgery, such as care of the elderly patient, venous thromboembolism, infection, nutrition, compartment syndrome and bone health. Finally, the role of allied services, quality improvement and ethics are highlighted. Selected case studies are included to illustrate real-world perioperative issues and management strategies in orthopedic surgery, now moved to their respective chapters for ease of use and reference. The shaded key points and chapter objectives boxes at the beginning of each chapter, and the summary points at the end of each chapter, have been retained and updated within a full-color interior. Written by experts at the top-ranked Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, Perioperative Care of the Orthopedic Patient, 2e will be a comprehensive, multidisciplinary manual providing preoperative considerations, postoperative complications, and guidelines for the anesthetic and medical management of patients undergoing orthopedic surgery. It will be an valuable resource for orthopedic surgeons, sports medicine specialists and allied professionals involved in orthopedic surgery.

Guest editors Nabil M. Elkassabany and Edward R. Mariano have assembled an expert team of authors on the topic of Orthopedic Anesthesia. Articles include: Evidence-Based Medicine for Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia,Role of Regional Anesthesia in Orthopedic Trauma, Which Outcomes Related to Regional Anesthesia Are Most Important for Orthopedic Surgery Patients?,Optimizing Perioperative Care for Patients with Hip Fracture, Regional Anesthesia-Analgesia: Relationship to Cancer Recurrence and Infection, Developing a Multidisciplinary Fall Reduction Program for Lower-Extremity Joint Arthroplasty Patients, Optimizing Perioperative Management of Total Joint Arthroplasty, and more!

This book describes and outlines the current practice of anesthesia for the orthopaedic patient. It ranges from paediatrics through to geriatrics and includes all aspects of orthopaedic practice and covers back, microvascular and tumour surgery of the orthopaedic patient and the management of patients receiving anticoagulant therapy. There are chapters on the use of regional anaesthesia and the book compares regional versus general anaesthesia. It also includes the latest scientific basis and clinical practice relating to the treatment of pain.