| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Part1: Gases and ventilation. Medical gases: storage and supply -- The anesthesia machine and workstation -- Anesthesia vaporizers -- Breathing circuits -- Waste anesthetic gases and scavenging systems -- Anesthesia ventilators -- Humidification and filtration -- Part2: System monitors. Respiratory gas monitoring -- Monitoring ventilation -- Part3: Patient monitors. Capnography -- Pulse oximetry -- Hemodynamic monitoring -- Temperature monitoring -- Part4: Other equipment. Airway equipment -- Preventing transmission of infectious diseases -- Infusion pumps -- Part5: Vigilance, alarms, and ergonomics. Vigilance, alarms, and integrated monitoring systems -- Ergonomics of the anesthesia workspace -- Part6: Special conditions. Closed-circuit anesthesia -- Anesthesia delivery in the MRI environment -- Anesthesia at high altitude -- Anesthesia in difficult locations and in developing countries -- Part7: Safety, standards, and quality. Hazards of the anesthesia delivery system -- Electrical and fire safety -- Machine checkout and quality assurance -- Risk management and medicolegal aspects of anesthesia equipment use -- Standards and regulatory considerations |
| Summary |
Offering highly visual, easy-to-read coverage of the full range of anesthesia equipment in use today, this authoritative reference is your go-to text for objective, informed answers to ensure optimal patient safety. Anesthesia Equipment, 3rd Edition, provides detailed information on the intricate workings of each device or workstation, keeping you fully up to date and helping you meet both equipment and patient care challenges. Remains unequalled in both depth and breadth of coverage, offering readable, concise guidance on all aspects of today's anesthesia machines and equipment. Details the latest machines, vaporizers, ventilators, breathing systems, vigilance, ergonomics, and simulation. Improves your understanding of the physical principles of equipment, the rationale for its use, delivery systems for inhalational anesthesia, systems monitoring, hazards and safety features, maintenance and quality assurance, special situations/equipment for non-routine adult anesthesia, and future directions for the field. Includes ASA Practice Parameters for care, and helps you ensure patient safety with detailed advice on risk management and medicolegal implications of equipment use. Highlights the text with hundreds of full-color line drawings and photographs, graphs, and charts. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices |
| Notes |
Previous edition: 2013 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from resource home page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed June 21, 2021) |
| Subject |
Anesthesiology -- Apparatus and instruments.
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Anesthesiology -- instrumentation
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Anesthesiology -- Apparatus and instruments
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ehrenwerth, Jan, editor.
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Eisenkraft, James B., editor.
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Berry, James M., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780323775489 |
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0323775489 |
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