The single most comprehensive hands-on guide to the practice of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management — in full color!

4 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW!

This is an enormous book. It weighs in at just under eight and a half pounds with a list price that makes it comparable to an equal quantity of sushi grade tuna! It is a beautiful and powerful text/reference book. The composition corresponds particularly well with the subject. The wealth of detail, the high quality photos and drawings, the well composed text, and the engaging layout are enticing. Handling and reading such an exceptional book brings great pleasure. Forget the fish. Buy the book.—Doody's Review Service

Here at last is a reference that covers the practice of Regional Anesthesia in its entirety, providing practitioners and students with both the physiologic principles and specific, state-of-the-art patient-management protocols and techniques.

Recognized leaders in the specialty have filled this richly illustrated volume with authoritative, completely practical help. You'll find algorithms for managing or avoiding a wide range of common clinical dilemmas or complications. You'll get time-saving tools such as intravenous-to-oral opioid conversion tables and PCA setup guides as well as no-nonsense selection of nerve block techniques and advice on their strengths and pitfalls. This handy reference helps you make wise choices about anesthetics, dosing intervals, equipment, and perioperative management of patients receiving single-injection or continuous nerve blocks or spinal or epidural anesthesia. It tells you how to successfully manage patients with suspected epidural hematoma or neurologic injuries — and much more.

• Filled with full-color, high-quality, detailed illustrations and clinical images of actual patients


• Covers the entire field of regional anesthesia, including nerve stimulator and ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blocks, from imaging and instrumentation to step-by-step instructions for employing them in adults and children


• Details how to achieve reliable anesthesia and analgesia for surgical interventions on the face and upper and lower extremities


• Provides information on the advantages and disadvantages of using regional anesthesia in patients with coexisting diseases


• Offers guidance on acute pain management of adults and children in the perioperative period and in the ER


• Features up-to-date information on the etiology, prevention, and management of a wide range of complications

Reviewer:Richard I. Cook, MD(University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)
Description:This encyclopedic reference describes the science and practice of regional anesthesia and analgesia. It covers the waterfront of regional anesthesia and analgesia including features of the nervous system and its development, regional anesthetic pharmacy, the wide variety of methods that can be used to achieve successful anesthetics, and thoughtful discussions of the problems, complications, and catastrophes that too often obstruct its use.
Purpose:The editor has sought to provide a comprehensive textbook on regional anesthesia and acute pain management. This book covers virtually the entire realm of regional anesthesia and describes and illustrates practically all clinically relevant techniques. While some books on regional anesthesia are little more than annotated atlases, this one is a reference-grade textbook that incorporates nearly all of the detail that the atlases provide within a coherent textual framework.
Audience:The audience includes not only anesthesia practitioners and lecturers, but also surgeons and surgical subspecialists. Chapters on specific applications are coauthored by anesthesiologists and surgeons and the text and illustrations are accessible to a wide variety of clinicians. Residents and senior medical students will find the book neatly organized for quick looks at specific areas and the many clinical hints distributed throughout the book are a welcome reminder that successful regional anesthesia is within the reach of any thoughtful practitioner.
Features:The book covers the relevant anatomy, physiology and pharmacology, the equipment and methods, and the complications and pitfalls of regional anesthesia. The scientific background and history begin the book, but the bulk of the book is clinically oriented. Sections cover ultrasound guidance, obstetrics, pediatrics, geriatrics, and pain. The book is well composed with easy to read type and consistently large and easy to view figures. The editor has provided lovely color diagrams and photographs that are essential for such a text. The quality of the photographs is high and the juxtaposition of photos and drawings makes them even more powerful.
Assessment:This is an enormous book. It weighs in at just under eight and a half pounds with a list price that makes it comparable to an equal quantity of sushi grade tuna! It is a beautiful and powerful text/reference book. The composition corresponds particularly well with the subject. The wealth of detail, the high quality photos and drawings, the well composed text, and the engaging layout are enticing. Handling and reading such an exceptional book brings great pleasure. Forget the fish. Buy the book.

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