Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia

An essential guide for all those working in anaesthetic practice, this bundle of the Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia and PDA version represents great value. The PDA enables enhanced, multi-layered access to the entire content. Fast access is available via the contents, index and full-text search. Suitable for Palm, Pocket PC devices, and PDA-enabled mobile phones.

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The Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia has been completely updated for the second edition. All chapters have been rewritten and a number of new expert authors have been brought on board. Additional new material includes anaesthesia for the critically ill and a comprehensive section on anaesthetic risk, including anaesthetic risk tables. The first section deals with preoperative issues affecting the administration of anaesthesia. Practical advice is provided covering the impact of medical disease on anaesthesia. The second section describes practical anaesthetic techniques for surgical specialties, including most subspecialties such as thoracic and neuroanaesthesia. Separate, comprehensive sections on paediatric and obstetric anaesthesia are included. The management of emergencies arising during anaesthesia are also fully covered with helpful action plans and algorithms throughout. Uncommon conditions and their management are included, along with an extensive drug formulary and guide to infusion drugs.
It is the essential handbook for anaesthetists, both junior and experienced, for registrars and those sitting exams, as well as ODPs and nurses involved in theatre area work and pre-assessment. This bundle of the book and PDA version represents exceptionally good value. The Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia for PDAs enables enhanced, multi-layered access to the entire text, illustrations and tables. Fast access is available via the table of contents, index and full-text search, and there is a facility for book-marking and annotating the text. It is suitable for most Palm, Windows CE and Pocket PC devices. System Requirements: Palm OS 3.5 or higher: 7 MB Windows Mobile 5/Pocket PC 2002/2003/ Windows Smartphone: 9 MB Macintosh OS 7-OS X with 30 MB of free hard disk space PC running Windows 98/NT/ME/2000/XP with 30 MB of free hard disk space Technical information: To use this product you need: PC Pocket PC Phone Edition device running Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003, Windows CE/PocketPC or Palm OS. It comes as a CD which is uploaded to a PDA via a PC.
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