A Practice of Anesthesia for Infants and Children | 7 Edition

Details about A Practice of Anesthesia for Infants and Children:

Covering everything from preoperative evaluation to neonatal emergencies to the PACU, Coté, Lerman and Anderson’s A Practice of Anesthesia in Infants and Children, 7th Edition, features state-of-the-art advice on the safe, effective administration of general and regional anesthesia and sedation strategies for young patients. This text reviews underlying scientific information, addresses preoperative assessment and anesthesia management in detail, and provides guidelines for postoperative care, emergencies, and special procedures. Comprehensive in scope and thoroughly up to date, this edition delivers unsurpassed coverage of every key aspect of pediatric anesthesia.

• Presents must-know information on standards, techniques, and the latest advances in pediatric anesthesia from global experts in the field.
• Contains thoroughly updated content throughout, with new contributors to lend a fresh perspective, updated figures and tables, and the latest information on perioperative fluid management, pharmacology, interventional devices, resuscitation, and more.
• Covers key topics such as anesthetizing children with cancer, neonatal and pediatric emergencies, the obese child and bariatric surgery, interventional devices for children with congenital heart defects, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, simulation in pediatric anesthesia, patient safety and quality assurance, and more.
• Features an extensive video library of pediatric anesthesia procedures, particularly difficult airway management strategies, new positioning devices, cardiac assist devices in action, management of burn injuries, how to perform ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia blocks and techniques, and much more.
• Essentials chapters provide focused input from expert subspecialty pediatricians who share the latest information concerning hematology, pulmonology, oncology, hepatology, nephrology, and neurology.