Essentials Of Pharmacology For Anesthesia Pain Medicine And Critical Care

In anesthesiology, pain medicine, and critical care, practitioners at all levels need help to stay current with the continually evolving drug knowledge-base and trainees need tools to prepare for in-training and board exams that increasingly test their knowledge of pharmacology. This practical book is aimed at both readerships. It features a unique and practical chapter on the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “black box” warnings that describe what safety precautions should be taken with commonly used drugs. The editors and contributors are pharmacology experts representing a cross-section of clinical specialties and institutions in the United States and include pharmacologists, pharmacists, as well as physicians.

Fully updated, with additional contributions from experts in the field, to include all new drugs available to the anaesthetists.

This book has been thoroughly updated and expanded, with additional contributions from experts in the field.

The grasp of pharmacologic principles and their practical application sits at the heart of anesthesiology practice. Intended to fill the niche for a rapid, point-of-care overview of clinical pharmacology in anesthesia, this compact guide covers the commonly prescribed medications in anesthesiology including the subspecialties of obstetric, regional, cardiac, and neuroanesthesia.

Intended for trainee and praticing anaethestists, particularly candidates for the FRCA Part 1 examination, this text aims to fill the gap between a basic prescribing guide and large pharmacology textbooks, and provide the anaesthetist with essential information on all aspects of drug pharmacology as relating to anaesthesia and intensive care. It includes a CD-ROM containing 365 pharmacology-based questions.

Innovation, training and research are the pillars that support a process deriving from basic science and multi-professional/multidisciplinary interventions. The APICE 2012 yearbook deals with several innovations for optimising prevention and management measures for the critically ill, by integrating diagnostic procedures with pharmacological and technological options. Peri- and postoperative managements as well as treatment of surgical infections and of pain, new and old artificial ventilation strategies are some of the most relevant topics the volume deal with in this new edition. The volume focuses also on the improvement standards and quality of care; on the expanding concept of clinical governance and professionalism and on the importance of ethical principles for establishing a process of patient-centered and evidence-based care.

This book has been thoroughly updated and expanded, with additional contributions from experts in the field.

Anesthesiology is a medical branch which is concerned with the total perioperative care of patients required before, during and after the surgery. There are various sub-fields of anesthesiology including critical emergency medicine, intensive care medicine and pain medicine. It primarily makes use of anesthesia and anesthetics to support key functions of a patient's body during the perioperative period. Anesthesiology is a broader field that requires knowledge of various areas such as pharmacology, mechanical ventilation and other areas of medicine such as cardiology, pulmonology and obstetrics to evaluate the risk of anesthesia. It also includes the anatomical knowledge of the nervous system for nerve blocks. This book discusses the fundamentals as well as modern approaches to anesthesiology. From theories to research to practical applications, case studies related to all contemporary topics of relevance to this field have been included in this book. It is an essential guide for both academicians and those who wish to pursue this discipline further.