This highly successful textbook is internationally renowned as a core text for trainee anaesthetists and is essential reading for candidates for the Fellowship of Royal College of Anaesthetists and similar examinations. The previous 6th edition was awarded First Prize at the BMJ Medical Book awards.
The book provides full coverage of the sciences underpinning practice in anaesthesia, critical care and pain management together with details of clinical anaesthesia and perioperative care. In combining these aspects, anaesthetists new to the specialty have found the textbook particularly useful during the first few years of training as well as when preparing for professional examinations. It has also proved a valuable day-to-day reference for allied professionals such as operating department practitioners and physician assistants who need an understanding of clinical practice in anaesthesia and related specialties.
The goal for this Seventh Edition has remained to equip the reader with the basic knowledge and practical considerations required to administer anaesthesia and perioperative care for a whole range of surgical conditions in patients with all common medical comorbidities. Reflecting the expanding role of anaesthesia beyond the operating theatre it also includes essential material related to safety and quality assurance, consent, resuscitation, intensive care medicine, pre-hospital care and chronic pain management.
The content of each chapter is closely aligned to the syllabus of the primary FRCA examination. Sample online questions and answers are provided for each chapter and linked to the relevant part of each chapter.
New to this edition
This Seventh Edition has been restructured into four sections: Basic Sciences; Physics and Apparatus; Fundamentals of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine; and Clinical Anaesthesia.
There are four new chapters reflecting the UK postgraduate anaesthetic examination syllabus and changes in clinical practice. There are: The older patient; Anaesthesia in low and middle-income areas; Management of critical incidents; and Data analysis, clinical trials and statistics.
Thirty new contributors provide a new perspective or contribute new chapters.
This edition makes extensive use of new line drawings and diagrams and, for the first time, many of these are available in colour.
Chapters have been extensively cross-referenced to aid the reader and avoid repetition to include substantially more information without increasing the overall size of the book.
The content of each chapter is closely aligned to the syllabus of the Primary FRCA examination. Sample online questions and answers are provided for each chapter and linked to the relevant part of each chapter.
Table of Contents:
Section 1 Basic Sciences
General principles of pharmacology
Data, statistics and clinical trials
Inhalational anaesthetics and medical gases
Intravenous anaesthetics and sedatives
Local anaesthetics
Pain
Nausea and vomiting
Muscle function and neuromuscular blockade
Cardiovascular system
Respiratory system
Renal system
Fluid, electrolyte and acid-base balance
Metabolism, the stress response and thermoregulation
Blood, coagulation and transfusion
Section 2 Physics and Apparatus
Basic physics
Equipment
Clinical measurement and monitoring
Section 3 Fundamentals of Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine
Quality and safety
Preoperative assessment
Coexisting disease
Consent and information
The practical conduct of anaesthesia
Airway management
Pain management
Local and regional anaesthesia
Complications
Management of critical incidents
Resuscitation
Postoperative care
Section 4 Clinical Anaesthesia
The high-risk surgical patient
The older surgical patient
The obese patient
Paediatric anaesthesia
Day surgery
General, gynaecological and genitourinary surgery
Orthopaedic surgery
ENT, maxillofacial and dental surgery
Ophthalmic surgery
Vascular, endocrine and plastic surgery
Neurosurgery
Thoracic surgery
Cardiac surgery
Obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia
Emergency and trauma surgery
Anaesthesia in low and middle-income areas
Anaesthesia outside the operating theatre
Organ transplantation
Intensive care medicine
