Ward's Anaesthetic Equipment 5/e

Description
Ward’s Anaesthetic Equipment familiarizes the anesthetic trainee
very thoroughly with anesthesia and intensive care equipment and it
remains the recommended text for Parts II, III and the final FRCA and
FFARCSI exams. The newest edition has been completely updated and
revised to ensure the close integration of the physical principles
and clinical applications of equipment throughout the text. It is the
only comprehensive equipment textbook based on UK equipment and
practice. This is a comprehensive and highly practical one-stop
source of information on the latest anesthetic and intensive care
equipment currently in use.




Key Features

*Key points and key references are included in every chapter and the
text has been rewritten to be very clear and concise. Provides the
trainee with a very accessible source of information to aid in the
understanding of the basic and more advanced key principles behind
equipment and design.

*Extensively and painstakingly cross-referenced by an experienced
author that ensures easy access to consistent, related information.




New to this Edition

*Ward’s has been expanded to include intensive care and advanced
monitoring equipment in greater detail as well as an expansion of the
growing practice of TIVA (total intravenous anesthesia)

*written with the new syllabus of the FRCA and FFARCSI (Fellowship of
the Royal College of Anesthetists and Fellowship of the Irish College
of Anesthetists) in mind.

*Four color photographs throughout

*Manufacturer’s diagrams and schematics simplified and carefully
explained to the reader.




- Contents -



1. Physical principles
2. Basic physics and electrical safety
3. The supply of anaesthetic gases
4. Medical gas services
5. Measurement of gas flow and pressure
6. Vaporizers
7. The anaesthetic workstation
8. Breathing systems and their components
9. Airway management devices
10. Equipment for the inhalation of oxygen and of Entonox
11. Manual resuscitators
12. Automatic ventilators
13. Ventilation in the Intensive Care Unit
14. Humidifiers and nebulizers
15. Equipment for paediatric anaesthesia
16. Equipment for local anaesthesia
17. Physiological monitoring: principles and non-invasive monitoring
18. Physiological monitoring: gases
19. Physiological monitoring: advanced monitoring systems including:
monitoring in the intensive care unit, Transesophageal
echocardiography, Esophageal Doppler ultrasound, Cardiac output, EEG,
Bispectral analysis, Haemodynamic, Thromboelastography
20. Atmospheric pollution
21. Infusion equipment and TIVA
22. Medical suction apparatus
23. Cleaning and sterilization
24. Computerised record keeping
25. Electrical hazards and their prevention
26. Surgical Diathermy
27. Defibrillators and pacemakers
28. Lasers
29. Provision of anaesthesia in difficult situations and in the
developing world
30. Vigilance, human error, risk management and reporting faulty
equipment
Appendices
Appendix I Directory of manufacturers/websites
Appendix II SI units and table of conversions
Appendix III Standards
Appendix IV Checklist for anaesthetic machines
Index









Author Information

Andrew Davey, LRCP & SI, FRCA,, Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Sussex
County Hospital, Brighton, UK; and Ali Diba, BM, FRCA, Consultant
Anaesthetist, The Queen Victoria Hospital, UK