Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures

This practical reference is a comprehensive guide to the anesthetic and perioperative management of patients during all procedures performed by general and subspecialist surgeons. The book explains each procedure from both the surgeon's and the anesthesiologist's perspective, presents details on anesthetic technique, and steers the anesthesiologist and surgeon through the crucial decisions that must be made before, during, and after surgery.For each surgical procedure, the book describes the surgery itself and summarizes key preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative surgical considerations, such as patient population characteristics, duration of surgery, site of incision, patient positioning, blood loss, frequency of intraoperative complications, postoperative requirements, and an estimate of postoperative pain. For each procedure, the authors give step-by-step instructions on preoperative assessment and preparation, anesthetic induction and maintenance, procedures to follow during emergence from anesthesia, patient monitoring, and management of complications and postoperative pain.