Monitoring in Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine

Part 1 General principles: a philosophy of monitoring; the senses as monitors; precordial and esophageal stethoscopes; monitoring and patient safety; cost; benefit analysis on monitoring. Part 2 Cardiovascular system: noninvasive blood pressure monitoring; invasive blood pressure monitoring; electrocardiographic monitoring; central venous pressure monitoring; the Swan-Ganz catheter - past and present; pulmonary artery catheterization; transesophageal data collection. Part 3 Monitoring the respiratory system: respiratory monitoring; monitoring anesthetic and respiratory gases; blood gas monitoring; pulse oximetry. Part 4 Monitoring and the central nervous system: the electroenecephalogram; evoked potential monitoring; monitoring intracranial pressure. Part 5 Miscellaneous monitoring: temperature monitoring; monitoring the kidney and urine; miscellaneous blood measurements; monitoring the anesthetic delivery system; monitoring the neuromuscular junction; the computer in anesthesia; monitoring in unusual environments. Part 6 Monitoring and subspecialities: monitoring in neuroanesthesia; monitoring in cardia anesthesia; monitoring in the pediatric patient; monitoring in obstetric anesthesia; monitoring in the intensive care setting; monitoring modalitites of the future.