A Practical Approach to Pediatric Anesthesia

This new addition to our highly successful A Practical Approach to Anesthesia series is a comprehensive, accessible
guide to pediatric anesthesia, with the substance and depth of a textbook and the convenient, user-friendly features
of a handbook. It fThis new addition to our highly successful A Practical Approach to Anesthesia series is a
comprehensive, accessible guide to pediatric anesthesia, with the substance and depth of a textbook and the convenient,
user-friendly features of a handbook. It focuses on clinical issues, contains enough academic material for board
review, and is written in bulleted and outline format, with numerous illustrations and tables.

Major sections focus on approach to the pediatric patient, clinical and operational aspects of pediatric anesthesia,
anesthetic management of normalities and abnormalities of each organ system, and special situations such as fetal
surgery, anesthesia outside the operating room, and trauma. Emphasis is on the developmental aspects뾞natomic,
physiologic, and pharmacologic뾲hat require special attention in anesthesia planning.


I. APPROACH TO THE PEDIATRIC PATIENT

Fundamental Differences between Children and Adults


Developmental Pharmacology


General Preoperative Evaluation and Consultative Pediatric Anesthesia


Risk Management and Quality Improvement


Ethical and Legal Considerations in Pediatric Anesthesia


II. CLINICAL AND OPERATIONAL ASPECTS OF PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA

Anesthetic Equipment and Facilities


Management of General Anesthesia


Regional Anesthesia


Post Anesthetic Recovery


Pain Management (Acute and Chronic) (including Regional Anesthesia)


Systems-Based Pediatric Anesthesia


III. ANESTHETIC MANAGEMENT OF NORMALITIES AND ABNORMALITIES

The Central Nervous System: Pediatric Neuroanesthesia


The Eye: Pediatric Ophthalmological Surgery


The Head and Neck: Anesthesia for Craniofacial, Orthopedic, Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology, Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery, and Dentistry


The Body Cavity and Wall


The Cardiovascular System


Gut Development: Surgical and Anesthetic Implications


The Foregut and Chest


The Midgut


The Hindgut


Abdominal Tumors


The Urogenital System


The Musculoskeletal System and Orthopedic Surgery


Integumentary System and Orthopedic Surgery


Hematopoietic System


Endocrine Disease


Neuromuscular Disorders

Metabolic Diseases and Inborn Errors of Metabolism

Abnormalities of the Immune Response and Infection


IV. SPECIAL SITUATIONS IN PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA

Anesthesia for Fetal Surgery


Delivery Room Issues and Resuscitation of the Newborn


Pediatric Resuscitation


Anesthesia for the Preterm Newborn


Minimally Invasive Surgery


Solid Organ and Bone Marrow Transplantation


Anesthesia Outside the Operating Room


Trauma and Casualty Management


INDEX