Preface 4
How to use your textbook 5
About the companion website 8
Abbreviations 9
1 History of anaesthesia 10
2 Monitoring 12
3 Equipment 14
4 Airway devices 16
5 Fluid management 18
6 Preoperative preparation of the patient for surgery 21
7 Temperature regulation 24
8 The perioperative patient journey 26
9 General anaesthesia - inhalational anaesthetics 28
10 General anaesthesia - intravenous anaesthetics 30
11 Local anaesthetics 32
12 Neuromuscular blocking drugs 34
13 Acute pain 36
14 Postoperative nausea and vomiting 38
15 Chronic pain 40
16 The airway 42
17 Emergency anaesthesia 44
18 Obstetric anaesthesia 46
19 Ophthalmic anaesthesia 48
20 Paediatric anaesthesia 50
21 Cardiac and thoracic anaesthesia 52
22 Regional anaesthesia 54
23 Anaesthetic emergencies in the operating theatre 56
24 Anaesthetic emergencies in the wider hospital 59
25 Trauma 62
26 Orthopaedic anaesthesia 64
27 Anaesthesia and obesity 67
28 Anaesthesia and old age 70
29 Anaesthesia and diabetes 72
30 Anaesthesia for vascular surgery 74
31 Anaesthesia for ENT and maxillofacial surgery 76
32 Awareness 78
33 Anaesthesia for ECT, dental surgery and special needs 80
34 Postoperative management 82
35 Anaesthesia away from the hospital setting 84
Index 86
