Core Topics in Perioperative Medicine

A comprehensive account of the subject and its relevance to perioperative medicine.

Jonathan Hudsmith (Author), Dan Wheeler (Author), Arun Gupta (Author)

9780521730686, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 1 January 2004

298 pages
23 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm, 0.51 kg

Undergraduate medical education is continuously changing to meet the requirements for the training of future medical practitioners. Over the last few years the concept of perioperative medicine has evolved, encompassing the preoperative assessment and optimisation of patients, the intraoperative and postoperative management of these patients and importantly the diagnosis and treatment of the critically ill patient. The relevance of this to undergraduate medical students is obvious. Core Topics in Perioperative Medicine provides concise, informative chapters on many aspects of perioperative medicine, allowing medical students to bridge the gap between final year clinical attachments in this specialty, and first year house officer jobs. It aims to guide the reader through the perioperative period via short, up-to-date chapters, each giving a comprehensive account of the subject and its relevance to perioperative medicine.

Preface
1. Perioperative management of cardiovascular disease John McNamara
2. Perioperative management of respiratory disease Tim Clarke
3. Perioperative care of children Warren Fisher
4. Perioperative management of the obese patient Anand Sardasai
5. Perioperative management of the elderly patient Karen Pedersen
6. Perioperative management of emergency surgery Jeremy Lermitte and Jonathan Hudsmith
7. Perioperative fluid management Iain MacKenzie
8. Perioperative management of coagulation Andy Johnston
9. Perioperative management of steroid therapy Fraz Mir and Michael Lindop
10. Perioperative management of endocrine disease Dan Wheeler and Ingrid Wilkins
11. Perioperative management of diabetes Mike Masding and Wendy Gatling
12. Causes and treatment of aspiration Paul Hughes
13. Transfusion and blood products Andy Johnston
14. The critically ill patient Bilas Navapurkar
15. Inotropes Andy Gregg
16. Arterial blood gases Simon Fletcher
17. Drugs used in anaesthesia and sedation Mike Palmer
18. Local anaesthetics Sue Abdy
19. Monitoring used in the perioperative period Ian Bridgland and Katrina Williams
20. Deep vein thrombosis and thrombo-embolic disease prophylaxis Jonathan Hudsmith
21. Postoperative nausea and vomiting Pete Young
22. The management of perioperative pain Parameswaran Pillai and Richard Neal
23. High dependency and recovery units Helen Smith
24. Postoperative hypoxia Mark Abrahams
25. Postoperative hypotension Chris Sharpe
26. Postoperative complications Dan Wheeler and Jeremy Lermitte
27. Perioperative scenarios Dan Wheeler and Parameswaran Pillai
28. Multiple choice questions Quentin Milner
Index.

Subject Areas: Anaesthetics [MMB]