A Practice of Anesthesia for Infants and Children Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 6th Edition

• Includes a laminated pocket reference guide inside with essential, practical information.
• Features key references at the end of each chapter that provide a quick summary for review.

• Presents must-know information on standards, techniques, and the latest advances in pediatric anesthesia from global experts.
• Provides access to a video library of 70 pediatric anesthesia procedures – 35 are new! Videos include demonstrations on managing the difficult pediatric airway, cardiac assist devices in action, new positioning devices, management of burn injuries, and many demonstrations of ultra-sound guided regional anesthesia blocks and techniques.
• Features extensive revisions of all chapters with many new contributors, and numerous new figures and tables throughout.
• Introduces new drugs such as those used to premedicate children and facilitate emergence from anesthesia, plus an up-to-date discussion of the drug approval process and detailed information on opioid safety for children with obstructive sleep.
• Includes new chapters on pharmacogenomic implications of drugs in children and the anesthetic implications when caring for children with cancer.
• Offers up-to-date information on the management of emergence agitation, sleep-disordered breathing, neonatal and pediatric emergencies, and the obese child and bariatric surgery.
• The Essentials chapters, with extensive input from pediatrician experts, provide the latest information concerning hematology, pulmonology, oncology, hepatology, nephrology, and neurology.
• Contains significant updates on perioperative fluid management, pharmacology, intravenous anesthesia and target controlled infusions, cystic fibrosis, new interventional devices for children with congenital heart defects, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, simulation in pediatric anesthesia, and much more.
• Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

A Practice of Anesthesia for Infants and Children

Section 1: Introduction

1. The Practice of Pediatric Anesthesia

2. Growth and Development

3. Perioperative Behavior Stress in Children

4. Preoperative Evaluation, Premedication, and Induction of Anesthesia

5. Ethical Issues in Pediatric Anesthesiology

Section 2: Drug and Fluid Therapy

6. Pharmacogenomics

7. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacology of Drugs Used in Children

8. Total Intravenous Anesthesia and Target-Controlled Infusion

9. Fluid Management

10. Essentials of Hematology

11. Perioperative Management of the Oncology Patient

12. Strategies for Blood Product Management and Reducing Transfusions

Section 3: The Chest

13. Essentials of Pulmonology

14. The Pediatric Airway

15. Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery

Section 4: The Heart

16. Essentials of Cardiology

17. Anesthesia for Children Undergoing Heart Surgery

18. Cardiac Physiology and Pharmacology

19. Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Management

20. Medications for Hemostasis

21. Mechanical Circulatory Support

22. Interventional Cardiology

23. Anesthesia for Non-cardiac Surgery in Children with Congenital Heart Disease

Section 5: The Brain and Glands

24. Essentials of Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases

25. Surgery, Anesthesia, and the Immature Brain

26. Pediatric Neurosurgical Anesthesia

27. Essentials of Endocrinology

Section 6: The Abdomen

28. Essentials of Nephrology

29. General Abdominal and Urologic Surgery

30. Essentials of Hepatology

31. Organ Transplantation

Section 7: Other Surgeries

32. Orthopedic and Spine Surgery

33. Otorhinolaryngologic Procedures

34. Ophthalmology

35. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

36. Burn Injuries

Section 8: Emergencies

37. The Extremely Premature Infant (Micropremie) and Neonatal Emergencies　　

38. Fetal Intervention and the EXIT Procedure

39. Trauma

40. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

41. Malignant Hyperthermia

Section 9: Pain

42. Regional Anesthesia

43. Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia

44. Acute Pain

45. Chronic Pain

Section 10: Special Topics

46. Anesthesia Outside the Operating Room

47. The Postanesthesia Care Unit and Beyond　　

48. Sedation for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures Outside the Operating Room

49. Procedures for Vascular Access

50. Infectious Disease Considerations for the Operating Room

51. Pediatric Anesthesia in Developing Countries

52. Pediatric Equipment

53. Simulation