New Anesthetic Agents, Devices and Monitoring Techniques - Annual Utah Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology 1983

List of contents

1. Current concepts in cerebral resuscitation/protection.- 2. Management of electrolyte abnormalities.- 3. Anesthetic management of the high risk pregnant patient: preeclampsia and diabetes.- 4. Anesthesia for cerebral vascular surgery.- 5. Management of anesthesia in the presence of liver disease.- 6. Special techniques in neuroanesthesia.- 7. Changing concepts in preanesthetic medication.- 8. Calcium channel blockers and anesthesia.- 9. Comparisons between beta blockers and calcium entry blockers.- 10. Aspiration in obstetrics: etiology, prevention and treatment.- 11. New developments in vasodilator therapy.- 12. Electrostimulation as an adjunct to anesthesia.- 13. New muscle relaxants.- 14. New intravenous anesthetic drugs: etomidate and midazolam.- 15. The new opioids.- 16. Comparative pharmacology of volatile anesthetics.- 17. Prevention and treatment of intraoperative myocardial ischemia.- 18. Toxicity of local anesthetics in the adult, fetus and newborn.- 19. Anesthesia for cesarean section: regional and general.- 20. New aspects of nondepolarizing relaxant reversal.- 21. Buying a monitor.- 22. When are pulmonary artery catheters indicated in noncardiac surgery?.- 23. Monitoring the EEG in the operating room.- 24. Biochemical and biophysical monitoring of the fetus.- 25. Are inhalation anesthetics better than injectable anesthetics for coronary artery surgery?.- 26. Continuous infusion of intravenous anesthetics: automated IV anesthesia, a rational method of drug administration.

Product details

• Assisted by: C Petty (Editor), C Petty (Editor), H Stanley (Editor), T H Stanley (Editor), W. C. Petty (Editor), W.C. Petty (Editor), W.Clayton Petty (Editor), T. H. Stanley (Editor), T.H. Stanley (Editor), Theodore H. Stanley (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2009
• EAN: 9789024727964
• ISBN: 978-90-247-2796-4
• No. of pages: 204
• Weight: 484 g
• Illustrations: IX, 204 p.
• Series: Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology; Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine