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Smith’s Anesthesia for Infants and Children, 10th Edition

Smith’s Anesthesia for Infants and Children, 10th Edition

Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures, 5th ed.

This hardcover reference textbook has 1720 pages, and according to the preface, functions as, “an easily accessible source of clinically relevant information about a wide variety of both common and not-so-common surgical procedures.” This is the 5th edition, updated and revised by the authors, the majority of which are from California, and the primary author’s home institution is Stanford University Medical Center. New to this edition are video content accessible via www.YouTube.com and full electronic access through www.inkling.com as well as the use of their app for portable devices available in Apple’s App Store and on Google Play for Android users. The authors acknowledge the limitations of using publicly available video content, but we appreciated the inclusion of this material as we believe it will streamline the ability of the readers to find another venue for reviewing a particular procedure. As seen in the previous edition, the textbook is divided into 15 sections organized in an anatomically top-down approach starting with neurosurgery, ophthalmic, otolaryngology, and ending with out-of-operative room procedures, office-based anesthesia, and emergency procedures for the anesthesiologist. Not surprisingly, the content of many sections is unchanged from the previous edition; however, references in the form of “suggested readings” listed after all chapters, and many individual procedures have been updated and revised. This was clearly evident and appreciated in the trauma surgery chapter with double the references from the previous edition including, for example, recent changes to advanced trauma life support and the impact of antiplatelet drugs on trauma outcomes. The most significant additions were found in the sections of pediatric surgery and out-of-operating room procedures. One new chapter is on pediatric bariatric surgery with several recent references reflecting the relatively new and increasing challenges to the anesthesia provider. For this edition, management of the difficult airway and anticoagulation guidelines for neuraxial procedures were added to the appendices. ELECTRONIC REVIEW The electronic version included in this edition of Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures is presented using the Inkling platform and application for portable devices. Content is also available through Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes and Noble’s Nook platforms, but they were not reviewed for this evaluation. Inkling is available through typical Web browsers found on a Mac or PC as well as the app available on tablets and smartphones using iOS or Android. The Inkling app allows the content to be easily downloaded and read without Internet access. Unfortunately, unlike portable document formats and other electronic access formats, Inkling does not allow the user to print any portions of the material. Inkling is an interface that allows the user to interact with the content via private or publically shared notes as well as highlighting, bookmarking, and copy/pasting into email or other applications. When the user makes notes or highlights on a device, it uses Inkling’s cloud to sync these additions across all the user’s devices and back up the data. The notes feature, while effective on the iPad, was not available on the iPhone. Within Inkling, the user can stream YouTube videos and access links to other Web sites provided she/he is connected to the Internet. The media are brought up within the Inkling interface, and when finished viewing a video, one can easily transition back to the previous location within the text. At the time of our review, 2 videos were already unavailable, which is a potential problem when referencing material that is managed by the public and YouTube (parent company Google, Inc.). The YouTube videos are grouped together at the end of each section under the heading “suggested viewing” as opposed to the suggested readings that follow each individual procedure. In conclusion, Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures, 5th ed., by Jaffe et al. continues the series legacy as an outstanding textbook for the novice learner in anesthesiology. The utilization of both surgeons and anesthesiologists as authors is important because it provides the information, perspective, and foundation necessary to formulate a plan of care for surgical patients. Of course, anesthetic plans are not meant to be “cookbook” in nature but tailored to the specifics of both the procedure and the patient. This reference textbook, with the added portability and user-friendly Inkling interface, serves as an invaluable reference for residents and trainees in anesthesiology. Although the 5th edition has been updated and offers improved multimedia content, the significant amount carried forward from the previous edition makes it difficult to suggest it as a must-have for those with the 4th edition. The exception would be for those that value the electronic platform provided by Inkling. For those people, the 5th edition is an excellent resource that will enrich their digital library. Robert McLennan, MD Jeremy S. Dority, MD Department of Anesthesiology University of Kentucky College of Medicine Lexington, Kentucky [email protected]

Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures, 4th ed.

Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures, 4th ed.

Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures, 4th Edition.

Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures, 4th Edition.

Book Review: Anaesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures. Fourth Edition

Book Review: Anaesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures. Fourth Edition

Oxford American Handbook of Anesthesiology

Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota. shakespeare.william@mayo.eduOxford American Handbook of Anesthesiology By Patrick M. McQuillan, M.D., Keith G. Allman, M.D., and Iain H. Wilson, M.D. New York, Oxford University Press, 2008. Pages: 1194. Price: $39.95.A pocket manual is a trainee’s right hand. I picked up a copy of the Oxford American Handbook of Anesthesiology at a time in my residency when I needed a condensed text to help me navigate rigorous surgical specialty rotations and found the manual to be a well-conceived, concise handbook. While not an exhaustive source, it is lengthy enough to provide summative information on a broad range of anesthesia topics, but at the same time it is portable enough to have within reach when a quick quandary arises.Starting into my introductory clerkships in pediatric and cardiac anesthesiology, I already had a copy of Ezekiel’s Handbook of Anesthesiology 1that I had purchased for $17 the week before starting residency. Now, 17 months later, the book was speckled with marginalia, taped twice down the spine with surgical tape, and worn from being as integral to my operating room day as a stethoscope. Starting into my subspecialty anesthesia rotations and in anticipation of the annual anesthesia in training exam, I left Ezekiel in the locker and adopted the more voluminous Oxford text, anticipating a more in-depth resource for specialty knowledge and broad review.The Oxford Handbook required some logistic adjustment. Too thick to occupy Ezekiel’s spot in the back pocket of my scrubs, the book rested instead on the anesthesia machine for reading between cases. On call, it stayed in the call room for consultation instead of in my white coat pocket. It has proven to be what it claims: not a pocket book, but a handbook—a concise reference that is easier to tote than the tomes by Miller or Barash or Morgan2–4but that still covers the practical highlights of these texts. Also, the book may not be structurally suited to outlasting residency training. After a couple of months’ use, the binding had failed, leaving the cover half separated and patched (like my copy of Ezekiel) with its own length of surgical tape.On the whole, the content of the book exceeded my expectations. It approximated the most practical information of much larger texts into succinct points and gave enough detail to be useful board preparation without being encumbered with excessive detail. In a preoperative evaluation of a patient with Takayasu’s Arteritis coming for vascular surgery, I consulted the Oxford Handbook and found the main points that I would have searched out in a much longer read of a much larger text such as Stoelting’s Anesthesia and Coexisting Disease .5It was similarly useful in a pediatric patient with achondroplasia coming for an outpatient procedure. The handbook contains a section summarizing common surgical procedures that reads like a portable equivalent of Jaffe’s Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures .6In a period of training when I was introduced to procedures ranging from thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repairs to electroconvulsive therapy, I found that the synopses on case management reliably prepared me for practical management of the anesthetic and familiarized me with the salient points of relevant physiology. There was one critical gap in the content of the Oxford Handbook that made me wish at times that I still had my Ezekiel manual in my back pocket—the Oxford Handbook doesn’t have a pharmacology and dosage section. It was no help when I grabbed the text looking for the milligram per kilogram dosage of clindamycin for a pediatric patient, or titration parameters for dexmedetomidine, or alprostadil. This omission is the only categorical flaw I found in the text. Any other answers I didn’t find in its pages were perhaps unreasonable to expect from a handbook—no details on the analysis of thromboelastograms, for instance.Doctors McQuillan, Allman, and Wilson have assembled an excellent resource for the anesthesia trainee that has much to offer to even experienced providers. The section on anesthetic risk, for instance, provides a very palatable format for expressing the risks of anesthesia to patients in lay terms, such as the probability of winning the lottery or experiencing a mishap in traffic. The handbook is an impressively condensed, useful resource that offers high-yield information from a much larger library in a single volume that totes easily into the operating room.Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota. shakespeare.william@mayo.edu

Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures. 3rd ed.

Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures. 3rd ed.

The Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures, Third Edition.

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. danielson.david@mayo.eduThe Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures, Third Edition. Edited by Richard A. Jaffe and Stanley I. Samuels. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004. ISBN: 0-7817-4332-X. Price: $129.00.Question : Why publish a Third Edition of this book?Answer : The rapidity of change in surgical care.For those not familiar with the previous editions of this Manual , a few words are in order. Drs. Jaffe and Samuels have now edited three editions of a unique book. With the collaboration of their Anesthesiology and Surgery colleagues at Stanford, they have gathered into one volume a work that has several features. First is a diagram-rich, fact-filled summary of just about every surgical operation. Then comes an outline of a good anesthetic plan for each of those operations. Each section has a list of current references for further reading. There are additional teaching points and patient care tips sprinkled liberally throughout. It is organized into 15 chapters based on types of procedures. The style and quality are surprisingly even throughout the text; a tribute to the editors. However, I would not call it a “manual.” It will never fit in your lab coat pocket; it is a full-size, heavyweight reference book. But it is a reference book that provides quick and easy access to information and, dare I say, does not put me to sleep.House Officers, this book is for you. Most of you did not enter anesthesiology via surgical routes; here is the easy way to begin to understand what is happening on the other side of the drapes. In addition, if you read the anesthesia plans and some of the references before each case, you will take better care of your patients and impress your faculty.Who else could benefit from this book? Faculty members should have it nearby for learning about new operations. Practitioners should reference it for the same reason. Anyone on call who needs quick information to set up for an unfamiliar type of case will want this book. I keep a copy in our Preop Evaluation Center for our colleagues from Internal Medicine who have not been in the operating room since medical school.The Third Edition is bigger than the previous edition by approximately 150 pages, lists more operations, contains more material in the appendices, and is subtly, though not markedly improved. The Second Edition was not flawed; it was merely 5 yr old. This is the heart of the matter, though, reflecting rapid changes in surgery and surgical care. The Third Edition merits a spot on your bookshelf because of new material, such as the section on laparoscopic bariatric surgery, the expanded chapter on esthetic surgery, the additional material on Out-of-Operating Room Procedures, and new chapters on Office-Based Anesthesia and Emergency Procedures for the Anesthesiologist.The appendices deserve mention because of their blend of old, revised, and new material. Appendix H still lists the acronyms and abbreviations used in the text, and I continue to find it helpful. Some of the revisions seem minor at first glance, but nevertheless, improve readability and quality, like the overhaul of the first Table in Appendix A on Diagnosis-Based Preop Testing, and the longer list of Herbal Agents that can cause drug interactions in Appendix F. More importantly, the addition of a new section in Appendix A on perioperative beta blockade is timely and reinforces that patient safety issue.Question : Would I buy the 3rd Edition?Answer : It’s already on my shelf.Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. danielson.david@mayo.edu

Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures, 2nd edition.

Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures, 2nd edition.

Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures

When I began my training in anesthesiology some 35 years ago, one of the first books that I purchased was a textbook of surgery, believing then (as I am convinced now) that appropriate care of the surgical patient demands knowledgeable interaction among well-educated, trained professionals—surgeon, anesthesiologist, and operating room nurse— each with some understanding of the activities of the other. Too many anesthesiologists slink behind the great blue wall separating surgeon and anesthesiologist (the blood-brain barrier), content in an intellectual sequestrum. Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures thus has a laudable aim: to produce an informed anesthesiologist knowing the needs of surgeon and patient and able to create an anesthetic plan suitable to meet their needs. Unfortunately, the book suffers from a host of problems and the aim falls short. First, the book lacks identity. Is it a definitive textbook or a primer? At 5½ lbs and 948 pages, it should

Anesthesiologist??s Manual of Surgical Procedures

Anesthesiologist??s Manual of Surgical Procedures

BOOK REVIEWS

Australian and New Zealand Journal of SurgeryVolume 65, Issue 5 p. 374-375 BOOK REVIEWS First published: May 1995 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1995.tb00664.xAboutPDF 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 onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract Book reviewed in this article: Statistical Methods in Medical Research By P. Armitage and G. Berry. Surgical Problems in the AIDS Patient. By S. E. Wilson and R. A. Williams. Manual of Pelvic Surgery. By M. J. Webb. Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures. Edited by R. A. Jaffe and S. I. Samuels. Disorders Of the Spleen. Edited by A. Cuschieri and C. D. Forbes. Volume65, Issue5May 1995Pages 374-375 RelatedInformation

Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures

Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures

Book Review: Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures

Book Review: Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures