Complications in anesthesiology

Now in its Third Edition, this comprehensive, problem-based textbook discusses the full range of complications in anesthesiology. Major sections cover intraoperative and postoperative complications affecting each organ system--respiratory, cardiovascular, neurologic, ophthalmologic, renal, hematologic and hemostatic, gastrointestinal, endocrine, obstetric, immunologic and infectious, and disorders of temperature regulation. Coverage includes problems that are rarely mentioned in older textbooks, such as ischemic optic neuropathy and postoperative cognitive dysfunction. Chapters address complications associated with specific equipment and techniques, with adverse drug interactions, and with herbal remedies and over-the-counter medications. Also included are chapters on medicolegal issues and risks to the anesthesiologist.

Sect. I. General and Medicolegal Considerations / Edited by Robert R. Kirby -- 1. Anesthesia, Perioperative Mortality, and Predictors of Adverse Outcomes / John H. Eichhorn and Zaki-Udin Hassan -- 2. Evaluation of Anesthetic Risk / Vijaya Gottumukkala, Dam-Thuy Truong and Angela T. Truong -- 3. Quality Assurance and Risk Management / Jerry A. Cohen, Robert S. Lagasse and John H. Eichhorn -- 4. Medicine and Law: When Two Worlds Collide / Virginia M. Buchanan, W. Russ Jones and Dion Ramos -- Sect. II. Perioperative Clinical Considerations -- A. Respiratory / Edited by Emilio B. Lobato -- 5. Respiratory Complications Overview / Robert R. Kirby -- 6. The Difficult Airway / Carin A. Hagberg, Rainer Georgi and Claude Krier -- 7. Safety and Hazards Associated with Tracheal Intubation and Use of Supralaryngeal Airways / David Ferson, Linda Chi, Sonal Zambare and Wendy Botnick -- 8. Hypoxemia and Hypercapnia / Roger S. Mecca -- 9. Bronchospasm / Sanjay M. Bhananker and Michael J. Bishop -- 10. Aspiration Pneumonitis / Raymond R. Schultetus -- 11. Pneumothorax and Barotrauma / Bhiken Naik -- 12. Pulmonary Edema / Avner Sidi and Emilio B. Lobato -- 13. Pulmonary Embolism / Jacob T. Gutsche a…