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Title Thoracic anaesthesia / edited by Jonathan N. Wilkinson, Stephen H. Pennefather, Robert A. McCahon
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (785 pages)
Series Oxford specialist handbooks in anaesthesia
Oxford specialist handbooks in anaesthesia
Contents Basic physiology for thoracic anaesthesia -- Basic anatomy for thoracic anaesthesia -- Basic pharmacology for thoracic anaesthesia -- Pre-operative assessment of the thoracic patient -- Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in thoracic anaesthesia -- Surgery to the lung and upper airway -- Surgery to the chest wall and pleura -- Upper gastrointestinal and mediastinal surgery -- Thoracic trauma, emergencies, and special cases -- Management of intra-operative problems -- Critical care and the post-operative thoracic patient -- Techniques in thoracic anaesthesia
Summary Thoracic anaesthesia is regarded as a post fellowship sub-speciality within anaesthesia, and can be daunting. This handbook provides an easily accessible, informative, and palatable guide to this often complex subject. The text is sub-divided into basic sciences, pre-operative assessment, diagnostic procedures, and an anaesthetist's walk-through of key thoracic surgical procedures. It concludes with an emergency section covering thoracic anaesthesia emergencies, critical care, andthe thoracic surgical patient, and ends with essential guidance on the relevant practical procedures necessary to m
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Subject Chest -- Surgery -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Anesthesia -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Chest -- Surgery.
Thoracic Surgical Procedures
Anesthesia -- methods
Thoracic Diseases -- surgery
Thoracic Surgery
MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
Anesthesia
Chest -- Surgery
Genre/Form manuals (instructional materials)
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Wilkinson, Jonathan N
Pennefather, Stephen H
McCahon, Robert A
ISBN 9780191621932
0191621935
9780191726255
0191726257
9780191620942
0191620947