Anesthesiology Pocket Guide

Designed for easy transport and quick reference, Pocket Anesthesia, presents essential information that residents, anesthesiologists, CRNAs, and medical students need on the wards and in the operating room. Edited by anesthesia faculty at Harvard Medical School, this pocket-size reference is ideally suited for today's fast-paced anesthesia environment--it is concise, easy to read, and evidence-based. Essential information is presented in a well-organized schematic outline format with many tables, algorithms, and diagrams. The book is filled with must-know facts about drugs, frequent intraoperative problems, differential diagnosis, common disease states, patient evaluation, and anesthetic considerations for each subspecialty. New to the revised, second edition, is the inclusion of ultraound-guided regional anesthesia procedures.

Providing fast access to the most relevant, evidence-based information in all areas of anesthesiology, Pocket Anesthesia, Fourth Edition, is a practical, up-to-date resource for residents, anesthesiologists, CRNAs, and medical students—both on the wards and in the operating room. This concise handbook, now spiral-bound, is designed for portability and quick reference, with information presented in a bulleted, outline format throughout. The Pocket Notebook Series format is ideal for today's fast-paced health care environment. Information is presented in a schematic, outline format, with diagrams and tables for quick, easy reference.

Just 3x5 -- fits into the palm of your hand! Accurate, Fast Information for Nurse Anesthesia Professionals and Students! Providing thorough information for all anesthesia providers, the easy-to-read and easy-to-use Nurse Anesthesia Pocket Guide, Second Edition includes general anesthesia principles, obstetrics, pediatrics, regional anesthesia, and medication charts. This pocket guide addresses crucial clinical topics ranging from general information such as gas machine tanks and canisters, to specific information on what anesthetics produce histamine release and have analgesic properties, to emergency information for a patient with Malignant Hyperthermia.

Nurse Anesthesia Pocket Guide: A Resource for Students and Clinicians, Third Edition provides easy-to-use and concise information that nurse anesthetists working in the operating room need to know. It includes general anesthesia principles, obstetrics, pediatrics, regional anesthesia, and medication charts. Completely updated and revised, the Third Edition provides additional information on anesthetic complications, intraoperative monitoring, expanded content on positioning ramifications and nerve injury, an updated pharmacology chapter, new peripheral nerve blocks, and additional math and pulmonary/cardiac formulas.

Designed for easy transport and quick reference, this new addition to the Pocket Notebook Series presents essential information that residents, anesthesiologists, CRNAs, and medical students need on the wards and in the operating room. Edited by anesthesia faculty at Harvard Medical School, Pocket Anesthesia is ideally suited for today's fast-paced anesthesia environment—it is concise, easy to read, and evidence-based. Essential information is presented in a well-organized schematic outline format with many tables, algorithms, and diagrams. The book is filled with must-know facts about drugs, frequent intraoperative problems, differential diagnosis, common disease states, patient evaluation, and anesthetic considerations for each subspecialty.

During the transition from the clinical base year to the first clinical anesthesia year (CA-1), the resident finds himself transforming from a bright and confident intern to an entirely unprepared anesthesiology resident surrounded by unfamiliar equipment and drugs and confronted by patients with acute and dynamically changing physiologies. This book is a concise step-by-step ready reference manual which will help interns to transition smoothly to life in the operating room within the first few months. Anesthesiology CA-1 Pocket Survival Guide will flatten the learning curve and improve the comfort level of trainees entering the OR for the first time. Intended to help provide a smooth transition from intern to resident anesthesiologist, it highlights information to seek out during the orientation period. It provides easy-to-follow instructions for such common tasks as preparing the anesthesia machine, positioning the patient, and entering information into the electronic management system (EMS) and suggests how to obtain and organize a patient's preoperative information to present to the attending anesthesiologist.

A quick-reference pocketbook for trainees and consultants working in regional anaesthesia. Step-by-step guidelines for essential procedures are accompanied by quality clinical photographs and diagrams covering the four core areas of the specialty.

Pocket-sized, quick reference to new and established anesthesiology agents. Includes tables, flowcharts, and management protocols covering all aspects of perioperative anesthetic management.