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Best books on anaesthesia: a personal choice

Anaesthesia is applied physiology, pharmacology, and physics; their application depends on knowledge of medicine and surgery. General textbooks of anaesthesia should move from the scientific principles to clinical practice and will never include enough detail for someone especially interested in particular topics. (Fig Omitted) I guess that the large textbooks are bought mostly by libraries and by candidates for the FRCA examinations who want something more than spoon feeding, though my advice to them is to use the contents pages of a large textbook as a list of topics to be covered and to write their own textbook of notes from reviews and editorials. These are written by the same people who write the chapter in the textbooks but are more up to date. Contributors to textbooks must give readers perspective, not merely regurgitated fact. The editors must have done more than collect the manuscripts and send them to the publisher. No textbook is going to be glaringly incorrect for even a chapter or two, so probably the most important consideration is whether it is easy to read. Is the text a sensible size and laid out well? Are the diagrams clear, and are they to a uniform style? Will the pages dissolve or stick together when the inevitable coffee or propofol gets spilled on them? Textbooks …

Textbook of Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care

Textbook of Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article:MCQ companion to the textbook of anaesthesia, D. Fell, D.R. Derbyshire, A.R. Aitkenhead and G. SmithThe ageing surgical patient: anaesthetic, operative and medical management, Edited by D.L. Crosby, G.A.D. Rees and D.G. SeymourStandards of care in anaesthesia, T. H. Taylor and D.R. GoldhillResearches practical and physiological on etherization, N.I. Pirogoff and B.R. FinkAtlas of procedures in anaesthesia and critical care, J.F. ButterworthAdult respiratory distress syndrome, A. Artigas, F. Lemaire, P.M. Suter and W. Zapol

What's new in monitoring the coronary surgery patient?

Monitoring has been extensively reviewed in most textbooks of cardiothoracic surgery and anaesthesia, particularly in the recent textbooks on monitoring edited by Carol L Lake 1 and Casey D Blitt 2 and in the Journal of Clinical Monitoring. Although monitoring properly includes both pre- and postoperative periods, this review will concentrate exclusively on the operative period. I will also concentrate on new approaches or information which relate to more traditional approaches to monitoring. The emphasis in this review will not be on what we can monitor, but rather on what we should monitor. In this regard, I will analyse accuracy and identify sources of error and try to answer the following questions. Does the device or parameter measure (monitor) what we want to know? Does it improve patient outcome and safety? Is it cost-effective? Unfortunately, data are not always available to answer all these questions at present, but hopefully the discussions will make us aware of what we do and do not know, and what we should look for in the near future.

Trauma Anesthesia and Intensive Care

In the preface, the editors state that this textbook is designed as a comprehensive summary for the anesthetic and general management of the injured patient. Overall, the book does provide a complete text for the practicing anesthesiologist who deals with trauma patients. However, some areas of the text cover many surgical aspects of trauma in excessive detail. The first section of the book, "Basic Considerations," deals with principles that apply to all types of trauma patients. The first two chapters provide the epidemiology of trauma and considerations in the establishment of care priorities in the emergency department. These areas of trauma care are usually not included in most anesthesia textbooks. The third chapter, "Airway Management," deals with the difficult problem of managing the traumatized airway. It presents both simple and complex airway management problems and includes most of the techniques and special tricks known in anesthesia. There are excellent diagrams

Book Review: Textbook of Anesthesia — 2nd Edition

Book Review: Textbook of Anesthesia — 2nd Edition

Illustrated Manual of Regional Anesthesia

ABSTRACT This book is a radical departure from other illustrated regional anesthesia textbooks. It actually consists of two books. One is a massive atlas that has 300 loose-leaf transparent illustrations of regional anatomy and regional nerveblock techniques. The other is an accompanying 96-page text brochure that describes each technique (the Basic Set). The superb but fragile three-dimensional transparencies are the result of a new state-of-the-art printing process that employs laser beams to color the illustrations, giving a realistic presentation of the deeper anatomic structures. The transparencies are surrogate cadavers that make up for the decreased time spent by medical students in anatomy classrooms.Several transparencies make up an illustration. Usually, the first one is the surface anatomy, followed by the overlying muscles, the vertebrae, the vascular supply, and then the nerves. I found that not all are needed. For example, transparency 5 is better when transparencies 5.2 and 5.4 are removed.

Common Perioperative Problems and the Anaesthetist

Dr. G. M. Woerlee is well known in my department both as a clinician and teacher. Years ofexperience have taught him that the problems discussed here have as yet not been treated in this way in any single work. In my opinion there is a real need for such abook, not only for resident and specialist anaesthetists, but also among surgeons and internists, specialist and trainee. Management of a patient in the operating room is a matter of teamwork, and knowledge of the problems encountered is the basis of any mutual understanding! The information which has been assembled and clearly presented in this book should prove to be of great assistance in guiding our patients though an important phase of their lives. Professor Dr. Joh. Spierdijk, Department of Anaesthesia, University Hospital of Leyden, The Netherlands. vii PREFACE Much of the literature being published in the field of anesthesiology today concerns a narrow, in-depth scrutiny of a specific area or anesthetic technique that does not provide the novice with an overview ofthe perioperativeperiod and the commoneveryday problems faced by the anesthetist. Dr G. M. Woerlee of the University of Leiden with his book, Com mon Perioperative Problems and the Anaesthetist, has filled a void in the current anes thetic literature. Dr Woerlee reviews in a straightforward, no-frills manner problems routinely encountered during the perioperative period. Other anesthesia textbooks do not cover the material in quite the same logical, step-by-step fashion.

Hospital practice: A survey of the management of the second stage of labour with epidural analgesia

SummaryA postal survey of the management of the second stage of labour with epidural analgesia was earned out to determine current policies in the Great Britain and to detect which course was most likely to produce a normal vaginal delivery. Despite the recommendations of the major textbooks of obstetric anaesthesia that the epidural should be kept topped-up until delivery only 34 per cent of respondents did so. There was no significant difference in the normal delivery rate between those hospitals where the practice was to keep the epidural topped-up and those allowing it to wear off. We conclude that analgesia should be maintained until the delivery is complete since allowing the epidural to wear off did not seem to increase the spontaneous delivery rate.

Book Review: Textbook of Anaesthesia

Book Review: Textbook of Anaesthesia

Textbook of Anaesthesia

The past decade has seen a veritable deluge of anesthesia textbooks. At a recent meeting of the American Association of Anesthesiologists, one publisher alone had over 30 textbooks devoted to anesthesia-related topics. These books ranged from general anesthesia to subspecialty texts, such as pediatric anesthesia, neurosurgical anesthesia, etc. It is a brave editor and publisher who would send yet another anesthesia book onto the seemingly overloaded marketplace. With these somewhat negative thoughts in mind, I sat down to read the Textbook of Anaesthesia , published recently by Churchill Livingstone Inc. This work comes in large part from the Department of Anaesthesia, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, England, and has been edited by G. Smith and A. R. Aitkenhead. In their preface, the authors state that they intend their book to bridge the gap between those volumes which are appropriate for the undergraduate and those intended for use by anesthesiologists in the latter

Book reviews

Book Review in this article: Recent Advances in Anaesthesia and Analgesia Edited by R.S. Atkinson and A.P. Adams. Textbook of Anaesthesia G. Smith and A. R. Aitkenhead.. Manual of Cardiac Anesthesia Edited by S.J. Thomas. Physiology for the Anesthesiologist N. Goudsouzian and A. Karamanian. The Electroencephalogram in Anesthesia. Fundamentals, Practical Applications, Examples I. Pichlmayr, U. Lips, H. Kunkel. Compartmental Models and their Application K. Godfrey. Brief Review of Books Received by the Editor Sir Robert Macintosh's Lumbar Puncture and Spinal Analgesia By J.A. Lee, R.S. Atkinson and M.J. Watt. Norris and Campbell's Anaesthetics, Resuscitation and Intensive Care, 6th Edition D.Campbell and A. A.Spence.

Book Review: Textbook of Anaesthesia

Book Review: Textbook of Anaesthesia

The first, published, textbook of Anaesthesia

The first, published, textbook of Anaesthesia

Paediatric Anaesthesia: Trends in Current Practice

ABSTRACT This small (188 pages) volume produced under the editorship of two of England's most distinguished anesthetists presents selected topics in varying degrees of theoretical v practical emphasis. Ten contributors in addition to Dr Rees have written the book's 12 chapters, a situation that inevitably produces an uneven perspective in presentation, though— happily in this volume—a minimum of repetition.The editors state in their preface that this is not a textbook of pediatric anesthesia but is intended rather as a guide for the general anesthetist in dealing safely with these often tiny patients. To serve this purpose the material is not presented with sufficient specificity or organization to guide a practitioner safely through a pediatric anesthetic. Either a great deal is assumed in the practitioner's past training and experience, or he needs a practical supplement such as David J. Steward's excellently organized and comprehensive Manual of Pediatric Anesthesia (JAMA 1980; 243:2095-2096).

TENDON-JERKS AND ANAESTHESIA

TEXT-BOOKS of anaesthesia seldom mention the effect of general anaesthesia on the tendon-jerks, no doubt because this information has not been relevant in clinical anaesthesia. In the course of other work it became necessary to examine these effects. Tendon-jerks were accordingly tested in seventy-two patients subjected to anaesthesia. The biceps (B), signs of anaesthesia used were those described by Guedel (1937). It was, of course, appreciated that these signs were described in relation to drop-ether, but they were considered reasonably applicable to the technique in use.) An attempt was made to deepen anaesthesia to a point at which tendon-jerks could not be elicited. In some cases this was not triceps (T), supinator (S), knee (K), and achieved, either because of shortage of ankle jerk (A) were used. In twenty-eight of these patients only the knee and the ankle jerks were tested. This was because the arms were being used for other purposes. Premedication consisted, in most adults, of papaveratum 1/3 gr (20 mg) and scopolamine 1/150 gr (0.45 mg). In some young or small patients, morphine 1/6— 1/8 gr (10.8 mg), and atropine 1/100 gr (0.65 mg) were substituted. Twenty-eight patients were given nitrous oxide/ether anaesthesia using a semi-closed circuit; 5 litres/minute of nitrous oxide were given with 2 litres/ minute of oxygen. Fourteen of these patients were given an intravenous induction with a small dose of sodium thiopentone. The dosage usually varied from 200-300 mg but in two cases doses of 500 mg were used. Tendon jerks were tested; first in the conscious patients, then in each plane of third stage anaesthesia as it was attained. (The planes were judged clinically. The 477 time, or because it was not considered justifiable to deepen anaesthesia further. The other forty-four patients were given pethidine hydrochloride/sodium thiopentone/nitrous oxide; 5 litres/minute of nitrous oxide were given with 1.5 litres/minute of oxygen in semi-closed circuit. Pethidine 50 mg was given intravenously at least five minutes before the induction of anaesthesia. Sodium thiopentone was given intravenously in a dosage of 300-500 mg. Tendon-jerks were tested, first in the conscious patient, and again a few minutes after the beginning of the inhalation of nitrous-oxide/oxygen.

A Textbook of Exodontia, Oral Surgery and Anesthesia

A Textbook of Exodontia, Oral Surgery and Anesthesia

Textbook of exodontia, oral surgery and anesthesia, by Leo Winter, D.D.S., Professor of Oral Surgery, New York University College of Dentistry; Oral Surgeon, Flower Hospital, etc., New York. 329 illustrations. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1927. Price, $7.50

The LaryngoscopeVolume 37, Issue 4 p. 307-307 Book Review Textbook of exodontia, oral surgery and anesthesia, by Leo Winter, D.D.S., Professor of Oral Surgery, New York University College of Dentistry; Oral Surgeon, Flower Hospital, etc., New York. 329 illustrations. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1927. Price, $7.50 First published: April 1927 https://doi.org/10.1288/00005537-192704000-00013AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume37, Issue4April 1927Pages 307-307 RelatedInformation