Medicine and Law: When Two Worlds Collide
Medicine and Law: When Two Worlds Collide Virginia M. Buchanan Russ W. Jones Dion Ramos And for the greater security of the weak commons, he gave general liberty of indicting…
Quality Assurance and Risk Management
Quality Assurance and Risk Management Jerry A. Cohen Robert S. Lagasse John H. Eichhorn CASE SUMMARY Rarely do virtually all errors possible in quality and risk management (RM) present in…
Evaluation of Anesthetic Risk
Evaluation of Anesthetic Risk Vijaya Gottumukkala Dam-Thuy Truong Angela T. Truong CASE SUMMARY A 50-year-old, morbidly obese, male patient with renal insufficiency, a history of transient blindness in the right…
Anesthesia, Perioperative Mortality, and Predictors of Adverse Outcomes
Anesthesia, Perioperative Mortality, and Predictors of Adverse Outcomes John H. Eichhorn Zaki-Udin Hassan CASE SUMMARY A 39-year-old, 5 ft 5 in., 380-lb woman (body mass index = 63) presented to…
Acute Pain Management
Acute Pain Management Stephen M. Macres Peter G. Moore Scott M. Fishman Key Points The inadequate relief of postoperative pain has adverse physiologic effects that can contribute to significant morbidity…
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Dan Drzymalski Margaret Gargarian P. Grace Harrell I. COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (CAM) Complementary and alternative therapies encompass a broad range of therapeutic modalities that can…
Ethical and End-of-Life Issues
Ethical and End-of-Life Issues Tara L. Kelly Sheri Berg This chapter explores ethical issues that frequently arise in anesthetic practice. Customs, laws, ethical beliefs, and religious practices vary among cultures…
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Charles W. Otto Key Points Brain adenosine triphosphate is depleted after 4 to 6 minutes of no blood flow. It returns nearly to normal within 6 minutes of…
Adult, Pediatric, and Newborn Resuscitation
Adult, Pediatric, and Newborn Resuscitation Peter L. Bekker Somaletha Bhattacharya Richard M. Pino I. OVERVIEW Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the operating room (OR) is the responsibility of the anesthesiologist who…
Pain Management
Pain Management Marc D. Yelle James P. Rathmell I. DEFINITION AND TERMINOLOGY A. Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that is associated with actual or potential tissue damage…
