Description based on cover image and table of contents, viewed on June 17, 2013.

Print version c2013.

Previous edition: published as Clinical anesthesiology by G. Edward Morgan. New York: Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references.

Section I. Anesthetic equipment & monitors -- Section II. Clinical pharmacology -- Section III. Anesthetic management -- Section IV. Regional anesthesia & pain management -- Section V. Perioperative & critical care medicine.

The practice of anesthesiology -- The operating room environment / Charles E. Cowles -- Breathing systems -- The anesthesia machine -- Cardiovascular monitoring -- Noncardiovascular monitoring -- Pharmacological principles -- Inhalation anesthetics -- Intravenous anesthetics -- Analgesic agents -- Neuromuscular blocking agents -- Cholinesterase inhibitors & other pharmacologic antagonists to neuromuscular blocking agents -- Anticholinergic drugs -- Adrenergic agonists & antagonists -- Hypotensive agents -- Local anesthetics -- Adjuncts to anesthesia -- Preoperative assessment, premedication, & perioperative documentation -- Airway management -- Cardiovascular physiology & anesthesia -- Anesthesia for patients with cardiovascular disease -- Anesthesia for cardiovascular surgery -- Respiratory physiology & anesthesia -- Anesthesia for patients with respiratory disease -- Anesthesia for thoracic surgery -- Neurophysiology & anesthesia -- Anesthesia for neurosurgery -- Anesthesia for patients with neurologic & psychiatric diseases -- Renal physiology & anesthesia -- Anesthesia for patients with kidney disease -- Anesthesia for genitourinary surgery -- Hepatic physiology & anesthesia / Michael Ramsay --

Anesthesia for patients with liver disease -- Anesthesia for patients with endocrine disease -- Anesthesia for patients with neuromuscular disease -- Anesthesia for ophthalmic surgery -- Anesthesia for otorhinolaryngologic surgery -- Anesthesia for orthopedic surgery / Brian P. McGlinch -- Anesthesia for trauma & emergency surgery -- Maternal & fetal physiology & anesthesia / Michael A. Fr�olich -- Obstetric anesthesia / Michael A. Fr�olich -- Pediatric anesthesia -- Geriatric anesthesia -- Ambulatory, nonoperating room, & office-based anesthesia -- Spinal, epidural, & caudal blocks -- Peripheral nerve blocks / Sarah J. Madison -- Chronic pain management / Richard W. Rosenquist -- Perioperative pain management & enhanced outcomes / Francesco Carli -- Management of patients with fluid & electrolyte disturbances -- Acid-base management -- Fluid management & blood component therapy -- Thermoregulation, hypothermia, & malignant hyperthermia -- Nutrition in perioperative & critical care -- Anesthetic complications -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation / Martin Giesecke -- Postanesthesia care -- Critical care -- Safety, quality, & performance improvement.

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