Preface

Part 1 Equipment and monitoring

1 History of anaesthesia

2 Monitoring

3 Equipment

4 Airway devices

5 Fluid management

6 Preoperative preparation of patient for surgery

7 Temperature regulation

Part 2 Drugs

8 The perioperative patient journey

9 General anaesthesia – inhalational anaesthetics

10 General anaesthesia – intravenous anaesthetics

11 Local anaesthetics

12 Neuromuscular blocking drugs

13 Acute pain

14 Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV)

15 Chronic pain

Part 3 Clinical anaesthesia

16 The airway

17 Emergency anaesthesia

18 Obstetric anaesthesia

19 Ophthalmic anaesthesia

20 Paediatric anaesthesia

21 Cardiac and thoracic anaesthesia

22 Regional anaesthesia

23 Anaesthetic emergencies in the operating theatre

24 Anaesthetic emergencies in the wider hospital

25 Trauma

26 Orthopaedic anaesthesia

27 Anaesthesia and obesity

28 Anaesthesia and old age

29 Anaesthesia and diabetes

30 Anaesthesia for vascular surgery

31 Anaesthesia for ENT and maxillofacial surgery

32 Awareness

33 Anaesthesia for ECT, dental surgery and special needs

34 Postoperative management

35 Anaesthesia away from a hospital setting

Index