This definitive neuroanesthesiology reference integrates basic scientific knowledge with clinical applications. The clinically oriented chapters are clearly organized and cover key clinical points, case presentations, and discussions. The 4th Edition is comprehensively updated to reflect all of the latest developments in neurosurgical anesthesia, and features contributions from many new experts in the field.Provides a user-friendly organization in each chapter that progresses from key clinical points...through case presentations...to in-depth discussions.Includes more than 350 superb illustrations demonstrating key concepts and techniques.Contains new material on transcranial Doppler ultrasonography, the anesthesia management of patients with neurological disease for non-neurosurgical procedures, perioperative control of cerebral perfusion pressure, functional brain imaging, and jugular and transcranial oxygen measurements.Offers expanded information on osmolality, oncotic pressure, and intravascular volume anesthesia management of patients undergoing neuroradiologic procedures anesthesia for pediatric neurosurgery and spinal cord injury.Presents contributions from numerous new authors, reflecting a wealth of new insights.
Thoughtful organization of chapters, starting w/ physiology, pathology, diagnostics, that lead into a series of chapters on prominent neuro-surgical titles, each followed by a companion chapter re the anesthesia for that specific surgery, plus chapters on agents, drugs, and fluid management. Not to be mistaken for a quick reference, this one IS a text book.
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