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This book addresses those aspects of anaestheticpractice in perioperative medicine which have a significant impact on both theimmediate and the long-term outcome for the surgical patient. PerioperativeMedicine is the natural evolution of anaesthesia from a main focus on thepatient in the operating room to a responsibility for the care of the patientfrom the time that the decision to operate is made, through to discharge fromhospital. The contributors, well-respected authors in their field, discuss therole of the perioperative medicine specialist in areas ranging frompre-operative assessment and physiological optimization via pre-habilitation,to intra-operative anaesthetic management, and post-operative care.Controversial topics discussed include fluid therapy, anaesthesia and canceroutcomes, pharmacological management of cardiac risk, and the evolution ofacute to chronic pain. Developments in regional anaesthesia, quality ofrecovery scoring, and lung ultrasound, are described.It is hoped that the chapters contained in this bookwill help to define the nascent specialty that is Perioperative Medicine, andencourage further debate, research, and expansion of this vital new frontier inanaesthetic care.
List of contents
Perioperative medicine: defining the anaesthesiologist's role in shaping perioperative outcomes.- Prehabilitation.- Impact of co-morbidities, physiological status and age on survival.- Transthoracic echocardiography in the preoperative clinic.- Defining postoperative quality of recovery.- Enhanced recovery for colorectal surgery.- Perioperative beta-blockade: the pros and cons. The story of beta-blockade and cardiac protection.- Perioperative management of the diabetic patient.- Perioperative management of non-diabetic patients with hyperglycaemia (stress-induced hyperglycaemia).- Postoperative Pulmonary Complications.- Haemostatic resuscitation for perioperative bleeding.- Fluid therapy in trauma.- Role of multimodal monitoring in the perioperative period: improving outcomes in high-risk surgical patients.- Can perioperative interventions during cancer surgery affect recurrence or metastasis?.- Transverseabdominis plane block: evolution and current understanding.- Future ultrasound technologies for the perioperative physician.- Lung ultrasound in anaesthesia and critical care medicine.- The acute pain team.- The transition of acute post-operative pain to acute persistent pain to chronic pain: assessing and managing the risks.
About the author
Karen Stuart-Smith was
born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, and graduated in Physiology and Medicine
from the University of Glasgow. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of
Anaesthetists and has enjoyed a long career as a clinical anaesthetist. Early
training in cardiorespiratory research led to an enthusiasm for applying
scientific methodology to clinical practice, and she is also a passionate
believer in the role of clinical audit in assessing the quality of patient
care. Karen presently resides in New Zealand, where she continues to practice
as an anaesthetist and enjoys the outdoor lifestyle in her spare time.
Summary
This book addresses those aspects of anaesthetic
practice in perioperative medicine which have a significant impact on both the
immediate and the long-term outcome for the surgical patient. Perioperative
Medicine is the natural evolution of anaesthesia from a main focus on the
patient in the operating room to a responsibility for the care of the patient
from the time that the decision to operate is made, through to discharge from
hospital. The contributors, well-respected authors in their field, discuss the
role of the perioperative medicine specialist in areas ranging from
pre-operative assessment and physiological optimization via pre-habilitation,
to intra-operative anaesthetic management, and post-operative care.
Controversial topics discussed include fluid therapy, anaesthesia and cancer
outcomes, pharmacological management of cardiac risk, and the evolution of
acute to chronic pain. Developments in regional anaesthesia, quality of
recovery scoring, and lung ultrasound, are described.
It is hoped that the chapters contained in this book
will help to define the nascent specialty that is Perioperative Medicine, and
encourage further debate, research, and expansion of this vital new frontier in
anaesthetic care.
