Drugs, Diseases, and Anesthesia

This extremely easy-to-use handbook provides instant access to vital information about interactions between drugs, diseases, and anesthetics. Until now, obtaining this information required a time-consuming search through many pharmacology, anesthesiology, and medicine textbooks. Now, anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists can refer to this handy guide and quickly find out how any anesthetic agent will interact with a patient drug, disease, or other anesthetic.Written by an experienced board-certified anesthesiologist, the book covers every drug, disease, and anesthetic with known anesthetic interactions--200 patient drugs, 60 diseases, and 100 anesthetics. For each, the author provides a brief description, a list of the anesthetics that interact with it, and a concise explanation of how they interact. Drugs, diseases, and anesthetics are listed alphabetically, and patient drugs and anesthetics are listed by both generic and brand names.