Evidence-based Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Ann Møller is a specialiast in anaesthesiology and co-ordinating editor of the Cochrane Anaesthesia Review Group. Her specific areas of research interest are evidence-based medicine, surgery, anaesthesia and smoking intervention. Tom Pedersen is Director of the Head and Orto-Center, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen and co-ordinating editor of the Cochrane Anaesthesia Review Group. His specific areas of research interest are patient safety, quality assurance and evidence-based health economics.

Preface; 1. Introducing evidence-based anaesthesia Ann Møller and Tom Pedersen; 2. How to define the questions Ann Møller; 3. Developing a search strategy, locating studies and electronic databases Tom Pedersen; 4. Retrieving the data John Carlisle; 5. Critical appraisal and the presentation of study details Helen Handoll; 6. Outcomes Ann Møller; 7. The meta-analysis of a systematic review Nathan Pace; 8. Bias in systematic reviews Harald Herkner; 9. The Cochrane Collaboration and the Cochrane Anaesthesia Review Group Tom Pedersen and Ann Møller; 10. Integrating clinical practice and evidence: how to learn and teach evidence-based medicine Steven Knight and Andrew Smith; 11. Involving patients and consumers in health care and decision-making processes: nothing about us without us Nete Villebro and Janet Wale; 12. Evidence-based medicine in the Third World Ruth Hutchinson; 13. Preoperative anaesthesia evaluation Maurizio Solca; 14. Regional anaesthesia versus general anaesthesia Mina Nishimori and Jane Ballantyne; 15. Fluid therapy Peter Choi and J. Mark Ansermino; 16. Antiemetics John Carlisle; 17. Anaesthesia for day case surgery Kevin Walker and Andrew Smith; 18. Obstetrical anaesthesia Stephen Halpern; 19. Anaesthesia for major abdominal and urological surgery Paul Myles and Kate Leslie; 20. Anaesthesia for paediatric surgery Neil Morton; 21. Anaesthesia for eye, ENT and dental surgery Mathew Zacharias and Robyn Chirnside; 22. Anaesthesia for neurosurgery Divya Chander and Adrian Gelb; 23. Cardiothoracic anaesthesia and critical care R. Peter Alston; 24. Postoperative pain therapy Timothy Canty and Jane Ballantyne; 25. Critical care medicine Harald Herkner and Christof Havel; 26. Emergency medicine: cardiac arrest management, severe burns, near-drowning and multiple trauma Stephen Priestly and M. Ragg.