Handbook of Anaesthetics and Perioperative Care

Part 1 Anaesthesia and perioperative 1. Survey of anaesthetic techniques; historical notes. 2. Principles of pharmacology and autonomic physiology relevant to anaesthesia in intensive care. 3. Pre-operative management: assessment and premedication. 4. The process of anaesthesia: the doctor's and the patient's perception. 5. Peri-operative fluid management: blood and colloid administration coagulation disorders. 6. Perioperative drugs. 7. Postoperative nausea and vomiting and the stress response to surgery. 8. The "nuts and bolts" of anaesthetic machines, tubes, ventilators, infusion pumps and defibrillators. 9. Practical aspects: airway, drips and chest drains. 10. Monitoring: Blood pressures and electrocardiogram, pulse oximetry, capnograph and temperature. 11. Accidents and complications of anaesthesia and surgery. 12. Special problems in anaesthesia. Part 2 Pain management and local analgesic techniques 13. Approaches to management of acute and chronic pain. 14. Techniques in regional analgesia. Part 3 Intensive care 15. What is intensive care? 16. Acid base balance, blood gases and arterial puncture. 17. Oxygen therapy and oxygen toxicity. 18. Acute respiratory failure. 19. Acute circulatory failure: shock and cardiac arrest. 20. Acute renal failure; temperature disturbances; nutrition. 21. Head injury, multiple trauma, burns and poisoning.