Thoracic Anaesthesia

by Jonathan Wilkinson, Stephen H. Pennefather, Robert A. McCahon

Overview

Thoracic anaesthesia is regarded as a post fellowship sub-speciality within anaesthesia, and can be daunting. This handbook provides an easily accessible, informative, and palatable guide to this often complex subject. The text is sub-divided into basic sciences, pre-operative assessment, diagnostic procedures, and an anaesthetist's walk-through of key thoracic surgical procedures. It concludes with an emergency section covering thoracic anaesthesia emergencies, critical care, and the thoracic surgical patient, and ends with essential guidance on the relevant practical procedures necessary to manage cases.
The text provides an essential reference for the core curriculum of the Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and for the day-to-day practice of post fellowship anaesthetists alike. The discussions of the surgical procedures are simple, highlighting the poignant stages that can affect the anaesthetic management of the patient.
The authors use the very latest evidence in order to keep the reader up to speed with developments in the field. Whether on-call, running day-to-day lists or working within critical care, this indispensable guidebook will optimise the preparedness of all staff in dealing with any case, whether simple or complex.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199563098
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/02/2011
Series:	Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Anaesthesia
Pages:	786
Product dimensions:	3.90(w) x 7.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Dr Jonathan Wilkinson qualified from the University of Liverpool Medical School in 1999. He completed further training in General Medicine and Accident and Emergency Medicine, and attained Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2002. He went on to train in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in Nottingham, and attained Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians in 2005. During 2006-2007, he was Thoracic Anaesthesia Fellow at the Nottingham University Hospitals. He is currently Consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia at Northampton General Hospital.

Stephen H. Pennefather MRCP FRCA is a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital. He qualified from Cape Town University and trained in general medicine and anaesthesia in South Africa and the UK. He has wide research interests in cardiothoracic anaesthesia.

Robert A. McCahon MBChB, FRCA is a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Queen's Medical Centre. He qualified from Manchester University and trained in Wales, Australia, and finally Nottingham. His clinical commitments include anaesthesia for trauma, maxillo-facial surgery, and spinal surgery. He has research interests in cardio-respiratory modelling in ARDS and medical education.

Table of Contents

1. Basic physiology for thoracic anaesthesia2. Basic anatomy for thoracic anaesthesia3. Basic pharmacology for thoracic anaesthesia4. Pre-operative assessment of the thoracic patient5. Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in thoracic anaesthesia6. Surgery to the lung and upper airway7. Surgery to the chest wall and pleura8. Upper gastrointestinal and mediastinal surgery9. Thoracic trauma, emergencies and special cases10. Management of intra-operative problems11. Critical care and the post-operative thoracic patient12. Techniques in thoracic anaesthesia

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: David B. Glick, MD, MBA (University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)
Description: This is a pocket-sized reference covering the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative anesthesia care of patients undergoing noncardiac thoracic operations.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a brief overview of the salient surgical and anesthetic considerations regarding a wide range of contemporary thoracic operations. The authors do a particularly good job of covering the preoperative assessment of patients undergoing thoracic operations and cover the intraoperative anesthetic issues that the various operations present very well.
Audience: The book presents the basic information that will orient trainees to a planned thoracic operation. It also could serve as a quick review for anesthesiologists who provide anesthesia for thoracic cases only on an occasional basis and need to review the major anesthetic concerns for a specific case.
Features: The book is excellent in its coverage of preoperative work-ups for the various thoracic operations. The brief descriptions of the operations themselves and the associated anesthetic concerns are also very good. On the other hand, the opening chapters on surgical anatomy are severely compromised by the near total absence of illustrations, and the chapters on premedication are less relevant to a U.S. readership as many of the drugs are not available or are used differently in the U.S.
Assessment: Overall, this is an excellent sourcebook for trainees learning about thoracic anesthesia. The bullet-point descriptions are succinct and clear and cover the major issues that each operation presents.

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