Oxford Textbook of Anaesthesia for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Dr Shaw was born and educated in Edinburgh, Scotland. Before studying medicine at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, he graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Pharmacology from the University of Bradford and was subsequently awarded a PhD by Cambridge University. He trained in anaesthesia and intensive care in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and the teaching hospitals of Newcastle upon Tyne. For the past 20 years Dr Shaw has been a Consultant Anaesthetist and an honorary Clinical Lecturer in the teaching hospitals of Newcastle upon Tyne. His areas of clinical practice include: anaesthesia for oral and maxillofacial surgery; ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery; and upper gastrointestinal surgery, in particular major oesophageal surgery. For the past eleven years Dr Shaw was a Royal College of Anaesthetists Final Fellowship examiner and chairman of the Final Fellowship Clinical Science Oral examination. Professor Chandra Kumar is a Consultant Anaesthetist based at The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK. His interests include ophthalmic, regional, elderly and colorectal anaesthesia. He has edited 5 textbooks and published widely in peer review journals in all aspects of anaesthesia. He has lectured and conducted master classes on ophthalmic regional anaesthesia in all the continents and prestigious organisations such as World Congress of Anaesthesiology, World Congress of Regional Anaesthesia, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Anesthesia Society, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland and many others. He founded British Ophthalmic Anaesthesia Society (BOAS) and is its current President and International President, 3rd World Congress of Ophthalmic Anaesthesia (Turkey). He is also examiner for the Final FFARCSI examinations for The College of Anaesthetists, Dublin.

1. History of dental anaesthesia ; 2. Pre-assessment of the oro-maxillofacial patient ; 3. Medicolegal aspects of anaesthesia for oral and maxillofacial surgery ; 4. Recognition and management of the difficult airway ; 5. The surgical airway ; 6. Innervation of the head and neck ; 7. Regional anaesthetic techniques in oral and maxillofacial surgery ; 8. Conscious sedation ; 9. Anaesthesia for dental surgery ; 10. Anaesthesia for aesthetic surgery ; 11. Anaesthetic implications of oral and maxillofacial infections ; 12. Oral and maxillofacial related injuries and hazards during anaesthesia ; 13. Oral and maxillofacial imaging for the anaesthetist ; 14. Anaesthesia for maxillofacial trauma ; 15. Facial, oral, and airway thermal injuries and anaesthesia ; 16. Anaesthesia for oral and maxillofacial malignancy ; 17. Adjuvant therapy for head and neck malignancy ; 18. Anaesthesia for orthognathic surgery ; 19. Anaesthesia for paediatric maxillofacial surgery ; 20. Hypotensive anaesthesia ; 21. Anaesthesia for nasal and antral surgery ; 22. Orofacial pain ; 23. Sleep apnoea ; 24. Postoperative nursing considerations for the maxillofacial surgical patient