Monitoring in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care

by David L. Reich , Edited by Ronald A. Kahn , Alexander J. C. Mittnacht , Andrew B. Leibowitz , Marc E. Stone , James B. Eisenkraft

• ISBN13: 9780521755986
• ISBN10: 0521755980
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-08-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Describes the devices, techniques, and principles of perioperative monitoring of surgical patients, covering the entire armamentarium used by modern anesthesiologists.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

The history of anesthesia and perioperative monitoring

Medicolegal implications of monitoring

Validity, accuracy, and repeatability of monitoring variables

Teaching monitoring skills

Electrocardiography Alexander

Arterial pressure monitoring

Central venous and pulmonary artery catheterization

Cardiac output and intravascular volume

Gastric tonometry Elliot

Oxygen delivery, transport and tissue oxygen tension: critical monitoring in the ICU

Transeosophageal echocardiography

Ultrasound guidance of vascular catheterization

Ultrasound guidance for regional anesthesia procedures

Respiratory gas monitoring

Monitoring pressure, volume, and flow in the anesthesia breathing system

Pulse oximetry Tuula S. O. Kurki

Neurological intraoperative electrophysiologic monitoring

Level of consciousness monitoring

Transcranial doppler

Multi-modality monitoring in critically ill neurological patients

Near infrared spectroscopy

Perioperative monitoring of neuromuscular function

Critical care testing in the operating room: electrolytes, glucose, acid-base, blood gases

Laboratory-based tests of blood clotting

Coagulation and hematologic point-of-care testing

Cardiac biomarkers for perioperative management

Endocrine testing in the operating room

Temperature monitoring David Wax

Fetal heart rate monitoring

Pain scales

Neurological clinical scales

Post-anesthesia care unit assessment scales

Delirium monitoring: scales and assessments

Intensive care unit (ICU) risk scoring

Computers and monitoring: information management systems, alarms and drug delivery

Appendix. Monitoring recommendations for common types of surgical procedures

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