Clinical Orthopedic 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.

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

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!

Guide for decision-making in orthopedic and regional anesthesia. Approaches for both common and complex case scenarios are discussed.

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.

A manual providing anesthesiologists with a how-to approach, based both on scientific principles and on the authors' clinical experience at the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute, New York City. The volume contains 15 chapters covering rheumatological disorders and other medical conditions, trauma, the fractured hip, total joint replacement, thromboembolism, regional anesthesia, tourniquets, special considerations in surgery of the extremities, ambulatory surgery, pediatric orthopedics, scoliosis, spinal surgery, orthopedic oncology, postoperative pain, and common pain syndromes. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR