Smith's Anesthesia for Infants and Children - Edition 10 - Edited by Peter J. Davis, MD and Franklyn P. Cladis, MD Elsevier Educate

Smith's Anesthesia for Infants and Children,

Edition 10

Edited by Peter J. Davis, MD and Franklyn P. Cladis, MD

Publication Date: 17 Dec 2021

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Written and edited by renowned experts in pediatric anesthesia, Smith's Anesthesia for Infants and Children provides clear, concise guidance on effective perioperative care for any type of pediatric surgery. The 10th Edition contains significantly revised content throughout, bringing you fully up to date with recent advances in clinical and basic science that have led to changes in today’s clinical practice.

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Offers comprehensive coverage of physiology, pharmacology, and clinical anesthetic management of infants and children of all ages.
Contains new chapters on Airway Physiology and Development, Normal and Difficult Airway Management, Ultrasound, Acute Pain Management, Chronic Pain Management, Palliative Pain Management, Infectious Diseases, and Education; plus extensively revised content on cardiovascular physiology; induction, maintenance, and recovery; organ transplantation, and more.
Features more than 100 video demonstrations, including regional anesthesia videos, echocardiograms of congenital heart lesions, anatomic dissections of various congenital heart specimens with audio explanations, various pediatric surgical operative procedures, airway management, and much more.
Provides outstanding visual guidance throughout, including full-color photographs, drawings, graphs and charts, and radiographic images.
Includes quick-reference appendices online: drug dosages, growth curves, normal values for pulmonary function tests, and a listing of common and uncommon syndromes.
Provides an interactive question bank online for review and self-assessment.
Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

About the author

Edited by Peter J. Davis, MD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Anesthesiologist-in-Chief, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Franklyn P. Cladis, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1       Special Characteristics of Pediatric Anesthesia
2       Behavioral Development
3       Respiratory Physiology
4       Airway Physiology and Development
5       Cardiovascular Physiology
6       Regulation of Fluids and Electrolytes
7       Thermoregulation
8       Developmental Pharmacology
9       Intravenous Anesthetics
10     Inhaled Anesthetics
11     Local Anesthetics
12     Opioids
13     Neuromuscular Blocking Agents
14     Anesthetic Adjuncts
15     Psychological Aspects of Pediatric Anesthesia
16     Preoperative Preparation
17     Equipment
18     Monitoring
19     Normal and Difficult Airway Management
20     Point of Care Ultrasonography
21     Induction, Maintenance, and Recovery
22     Transfusion Medicine
23     Acute Pain Management
24     Regional Anesthesia
25     Chronic Pain Management
26     Palliative Pain Management
27     Neonatology for Anesthesiologists
28     Anesthesia for General Surgery in Neonates
29     Anesthesia for Fetal Surgery
30     Anesthesia for Congenital Heart Disease
31     Anesthesia for Neurosurgery
32     Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery
33     Anesthesia for General Abdominal, Urologic Surgery
34     Anesthesia for Otorhinolaryngologic Surgery
35     Anesthesia for Plastic Surgery
36     Anesthesia for Orthopedic Surgery
37     Anesthesia for Ophthalmic Surgery
38     Solid Organ Transplantation
39     Anesthesia for Conjoined Twins
40     Anesthesia for Pediatric Trauma
41     Anesthesia for Burns
42     Anesthesia for Dental Procedures
43     Anesthesia and Sedation for Out of OR Procedures
44     Pediatric Sedation
45     Anesthesia for Surgical Missions
46     Endocrine Disorders
47     Respiratory Disorders
48     Cardiovascular Disorders
49     Hematology and Coagulation Disorders
50     Oncologic Disorders
51     Genetic and Muscular Disorders
52     Malignant Hyperthermia
53     Pediatric Obesity
54     Special Pediatric Disorders
55     Dermatology for the Anesthesiologist
56     Infectious Diseases
57     Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
58     Critical Care Medicine
59     Cardiac Critical Care Medicine
60     Safety and Outcome in Pediatric Anesthesia
61     History of Pediatric Anesthesia
62     Medicolegal and Ethical Aspects of Pediatric Anesthesia
63     Education
64     Statistics

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Doody's Core Titles® 2022

"The quality of the book is excellent. I cannot imagine having a better book for reference for my future career as a pediatric anesthesiologist. When I have a patient with a unique disease or have an upcoming case with a surgery I have not encountered, this is the text to reach for. This updated text benefits from better organization as well as excellent color."

“For the advanced practitioner, the 10th edition of Smith's Anesthesia for Infants and Children provides a solid repository of up-to-date peer-reviewed subject matter, whereas the budding pediatric anesthesiologist will find this an invaluable and dependable reference covering all aspects of perioperative pediatric anesthesia practice.¿ - Anesthesiology May 2022, Vol. 136, 871–872"

“…this textbook remains a mainstream reference of the discipline both for those regularly involved in the perioperative care of young patients and beyond.¿ - British Journal of Anaesthesia, 128 (5): 889e890 (2022)"

ISBN: 9780323698252

Page Count: 1582

Illustrations : 820 illustrations (410 in full color)

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