Written by leading experts in the field, this is the definitive clinical text/reference on the many important aspects of anesthesia for orthopaedic surgery - including trauma, pediatrics, the elderly, and outpatients. In twenty-five chapters, the book's authoritative contributors provide keen insights and guidance on the most effective and important methods and techniques for assessment, evaluation, and management. Among the topics the book explores in depth are anaesthesia for the patient with rheumatoid arthritis; the ...
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Written by leading experts in the field, this is the definitive clinical text/reference on the many important aspects of anesthesia for orthopaedic surgery - including trauma, pediatrics, the elderly, and outpatients. In twenty-five chapters, the book's authoritative contributors provide keen insights and guidance on the most effective and important methods and techniques for assessment, evaluation, and management. Among the topics the book explores in depth are anaesthesia for the patient with rheumatoid arthritis; the patient with neuromuscular disease; the elderly patient (with a specific focus on cardiopulmonary stress of orthopaedic procedures); anaesthesia for upper and lower extremity surgery; management of the patient with spinal cord injury; spinal instrumentation (including preoperative and postoperative procedures); surgical considerations for joint replacement, back surgery, and the paediatric patient; intraoperative complications; ambulatory orthopaedic surgery; proper use of the tourniquet; management of massive blood loss; spinal cord monitoring; positioning; pain control special chapters on chronic pain management); and the role of the anesthesiologist in reflex sympathetic dystrophy and causalgia.
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