Paediatric Anaesthesia

Description

* Contains up-to-date paediatric resuscitation guidelines
* Each chapter emphasises the practical aspects of anaesthetising children
* Covers a wide range of surgical specialties and procedures
* Includes information on pain relief and local anaesthetic techniques
* Allows the reader to assimilate important information quickly

This handbook covers all aspects of modern paediatric anaesthesia; from common ENT and general surgical day case procedures through to specialist neonatal, neurosurgical, spinal and cardiac procedures restricted to paediatric centres. Paediatric Anaesthesia deals with individual surgical procedures on a case by case basis covering the whole care of a patient from preoperative assessment, through the provision of anaesthesia and pain relief, to postoperative care. There are also chapters on resuscitation, complications during anaesthesia, congenital syndromes and medical conditions which affect anaesthesia and sedation of children.
A concise source of knowledge and advice, this handbook provides rapid access to relevant material with sufficient detail and explanation to make it invaluable to a trainee new to the sub-specialty or any specialist practitioner working on paediatric anaesthesia.

Readership: Aimed primarily at trainee anaesthetists, this book will also appeal to consultants in anaesthesia, anaesthetic nurses, and operating department practitioners.

Contents
Physiology, Pharmacology and Psychology
1. Anatomy, Physiology and Psychology , Volker Lesch
2. Paediatric Pharmacology and Fluid Administration , Volker Lesch
Anaesthesia
3. Principles of Paediatric Anaesthesia , Pamela Eccles
4. Paediatric Anaesthetic Equipment , Fiona Kelly
5. Practical Procedures and Postoperative Care in Paediatric Anaesthesia , Francois Taljard
Intraoperative and Postoperative Analgesia
6. Acute Pain and Postoperative Analgesia , Mandy Sim
7. Regional Anaesthetic Techniques - Peripheral blocks , Steve Roberts
8. Regional Anaesthetic Techniques - Central blocks , Graham Bell
Elective Surgery
9. Day Case, General, ENT, Orthopaedic, Neurosurgery and Maxillofacial Surgery , Manchula Navaratnam
10. Ophthalmology, Plastics, Oncology, Radiology, Thoracic and Dental Surgery , Andrew Morrison
11. Congenital Heart Disease , Anne Goldie
Neonatal and Emergency procedures
12. Emergency Surgery - neonatal, general and airway , Emma Dickson
13. Emergency Anaesthesia - orthopaedics, plastics, neurosurgery, opthalmology and maxillofacial , Alison Carlyle
Resuscitation, Sedation, Syndromes and Problems
14. Problems During Anaesthesia, Resuscitation and Patient Transfer , Carolyn Smith
15. Syndromes and Conditions with Implications for Anaesthesia , Anthony Moores
16. Sedation for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures , Anthony Moores