Human-Induced and Natural Disasters
The editors and publisher would like to thank Dr. Eric Y. Lin for contributing to this chapter in the previous edition of this work. It has provided the framework for…
New Models of Anesthesia Care: Perioperative Medicine, the Perioperative Surgical Home, and Population Health
Growth and Expansion of Anesthesia Practice Anesthesiology has evolved from a specialty dedicated to the care of patients undergoing surgical procedures in an operating room environment to one devoted to…
Quality and Patient Safety in Anesthesia Care
The editors and publisher would like to thank Drs. Vinod Malhotra and Patricia Fogarty-Mack for contributing to this chapter in the previous edition of this work. It has served as…
Awareness Under Anesthesia
During interventional/therapeutic procedures, patients may receive drugs that affect the central nervous system (CNS) along a continuum from the awake state to general anesthesia. Dependent upon the nature of the…
Peripheral Nerve Blocks
The editors and publisher would like to thank Dr. Adam B. Collins for contributing a chapter on this topic to the prior edition of this work. It has served as…
Spinal, Epidural, and Caudal Anesthesia
The editors and publisher would like to thank Drs. Kenneth Drasner and Merlin D. Larson for contributing to this chapter in the previous edition of this work. It has served…
Outpatient Anesthesia
The editors and publisher would like to thank Dr. Douglas G. Merrill for contributing to this chapter in the previous edition of this work. It has served as the foundation…
Critical Care Medicine
The editors and publisher would like to thank Drs. Lundy Campbell and Michael Gropper for contributing to this chapter in the previous edition of this work. It has served as…
Perioperative Pain Management
Postoperative pain is a complex physiologic reaction to tissue injury. Commonly, patients’ primary concern about surgery is how much pain they will experience following the procedure. Postoperative pain produces acute…
Postanesthesia Recovery
The postanesthesia care unit (PACU), sometimes referred to as the recovery room, is designed and staffed to monitor and care for patients who are recovering from the immediate physiologic effects…
