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Pediatric Anesthesia Handbook puts the best answers on controlling pain in your pocket. In this convenient resource--perfect for your lab coat pocket--leading pediatric anesthesiologists put succinct, up-to-date advice on both routine and non-routine cases at your fingertips. - Covers young patients in and out of the operating room
- Provides easy access to current practice in pain management, sedation, and peri-operative monitoring and assessment
- Helps you resolve complex issues involving multiple trauma, blocked airways, heart and birth defects, allergies, and other conditions in hard-to-manage situations
- Offers appropriate laboratory and radiologic tests for children
- Discusses post-operative pain management
- Guides you on ethical, legal, and family issues
More than a source of quick facts you need immediately to provide care for sick and injured children, this problem-oriented Handbook is an excellent way to keep abreast of the latest options, controversies, and alternatives in clinical pediatric anesthesia. Table of Contents - Risk and Outcome in Pediatric Anesthesia
- Ethical and Legal Issues in Pediatric Care
- Selecting the Suitable Pediatric Outpatient
- Appropriate Laboratory and Radiologic Testing in Children
- Preanesthetic Sedation for Pediatric Patients Lacking Intravenous Access
- Providing for the Child, Parent, and Family in Difficult Situations
- The Child With Respiratory Problems
- The Child With Stridor
- Perioperative Management of the Former Preterm Infant
- Management of the Child with a Difficult Airway
- The Child With Congenital Heart Disease
- Dysrhythmias in the Pediatric Patient
- Anesthetic Considerations for the Child With Multiple Trauma
- Management of the Child With Thermal Injury
- The Child With Cancer
- The Child With Neurosurgial Problems
- Systemic Disorders Commonly Seen in Pediatric Anesthesia
- The Child With Allergies
- The Four Hs: Hypertension, Hypotension, Hypoxia, and Hypercardia
- Blood Salvage and Conservation Techniques in Children
- Malignant Hyperthermia in Pediatric Anesthesia
- Monitoring and Discharge Criteria From the Recovery Room
- Problems With Pediatric Postoperative Pain Control
- The Anesthesiologist and Sedation: Who, What, When, and Why?
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