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The Oxford Specialist Handbook in Paediatric Anaesthesia returns for a new edition with updated practical management advice, and detailed perioperative plans for a wide selection of basic and advanced paediatric procedures.
Invaluable to trainees and consultants alike, this go-to guide details current techniques in a concise and rapid manner, describing how to approach each case. It covers everything from pharmacology, preoperative assessment, and the basic principles of anaesthetic care, to advanced vascular access, pain management, and neonatal surgery. With additional speciality chapters containing both elective and emergency cases, it is the ideal companion to all aspects of paediatric anaesthesia.
· Features up-to-date information on fasting guidelines, pregnancy testing and thromboprophylaxis
· Covers patient care from pre-operative assessment to post-operative care.
· Contains detailed chapters on advanced airway management, advanced vascular access, and regional anaesthesia.
· Includes easy-to-follow perioperative plans for all the common elective and emergency procedures.
· New section on resuscitation, transfers, and emergencies.
List of contents
- Section 1: Basic sciences
- 1: Tom Engelhardt: System based anatomy and physiology
- 2: Tom Engelhardt: Pharmacology and fluids
- Section 2: Perioperative care
- 3: Barry Lambert: Preoperative assessment
- 4: Barry Lambert and Nurai Masip: Preoperative preparation
- 5: Richard Craig: Anaesthetic Equipment
- 6: Nurai Masip and Barry Lambert: Induction
- 7: Nurai Masip: Intraoperative care
- 8: Nurai Masip: Postoperative care
- Section 3: Practical procedures
- 9: Richard Craig: Advanced airway management
- 10: Richard Craig: Advanced vascular access
- 11: Steve Roberts: Regional anaesthesia
- Section 4: Pain management
- 12: Acute Pain Service, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool: Pain and sedation
- Section 5: Medical and surgical specialties
- 13: Phil Arnold: Neonatal anaesthesia
- 14: Steve Roberts: Day case surgery
- 15: Phil Arnold: Cardiothoracic surgery
- 16: Ed Carver: Dental and oral surgery
- 17: Kate Thomas: ENT Surgery
- 18: Naveen Raj: General surgery and urology
- 19: Ed Carver and Doug Johnson: Maxillofacial, craniofacial and cleft surgery
- 20: Naveen Murali: Medical specialties
- 21: Elizabeth Wright: Neurosurgery
- 22: Naveen Raj: Orthopaedic surgery
- 23: Anne Hunt: Ophthalmology surgery
- 24: Laura Bowes: Radiology
- 25: Doug Johnson: Plastic surgery
- Section 6: Syndromes and diseases
- 26: Anthony Moores: Comorbidities and Syndromes
- Section 7: Resuscitation, transfer and medical emergencies
- 27: North West and North Wales Paediatric Transport Service: Medical Emergencies
- 28: North West and North Wales Paediatric Transport Service: Stabilizing the critically ill child in a General Hospital
- 29: North West and North Wales Paediatric Transport Service: Resuscitation
About the author
Dr Steve Roberts has been a Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist in the Jackson Rees Department of Anaesthesia at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Hospital for over 15 years. He is Clinical Lead for Day Surgery and Radiology. As a registrar Dr Roberts became interested in the use of ultrasound to image children's spines and soon realised that it had begun to be used in adults in Europe to identify peripheral nerves. As a consequence he was an early adopter of these techniques; starting one of the first UK ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia courses; and contributing to chapters to many of the first books on this subject.
Summary
This easy-to-use guide covers all aspects of paediatric anaesthesia, from the basics to rare and complicated procedures.
Additional text
This concise, go-to guide for anesthesia providers caring for neonates, infants, and children facilitates the creation of perioperative care plans for these patients. It is also useful as a quick reference guide at the bedside.
Report
...this book's main appeal is as a pocket size quick reference guide, providing an excellent summary of current practice, that can be carried everywhere by any anesthetist involved in the care of children. The book covers a vast curriculum in a shell and makes essential reading for trainees, general anesthetists managing children in nonspecialist hospitals, and anyone aspiring to become a pediatric anesthetist. Mahmood Rafiq, MD, FRCA, EDAIC Martin Cole, MBBCh, BSc, FRCA, Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Royal Glamorgan Hospital NHS Wales, Anesthesia & Analgesia
