Pocket Anesthesia 2/e

Designed for easy transport and quick reference, Pocket Anesthesia, presents essential information that residents,
anesthesiologists, CRNAs, and medical students need on the wards and in the operating room. Edited by anesthesia
faculty at Harvard Medical School, this pocket-size reference is ideally suited for today's fast-paced anesthesia
environment뾦t is concise, easy to read, and evidence-based. Essential information is presented in a well-organized
schematic outline format with many tables, algorithms, and diagrams. The book is filled with must-know facts about
drugs, frequent intraoperative problems, differential diagnosis, common disease states, patient evaluation, and
anesthetic considerations for each subspecialty. New to the revised, second edition, is the inclusion of ultraound-
guided regional anesthesia procedures.



1. 1.Preoperative Patient Evaluation

Susan Calderwood and Jesse Ehrenfeld

2. 2.Pharmacy

a. Inhalational Anesthetics

Megan Graybill Anders

b. Non-inhaled Anesthetics

Megan Graybill Anders

c. Analgesics

Megan Graybill Anders

d. Local Anesthetics

Megan Graybill Anders

e. Neuromuscular Blocking Agents

Megan Graybill Anders

f. Vasoactive, Autonomic and Cardiovascular Drugs

Megan Graybill Anders

g. Commonly Encountered Drugs in Anesthesia

Megan Graybill Anders

h. Antibiotics and Herbal Medications

Richard Urman and Jesse Ehrenfeld

3. 3. Anesthesia Equipment

Allan Simpao and Jennifer Bartlett

4. 4. Airway Management

Tarun Bhalla

5. 5. Anesthetic Techniques

Kurt Dittrich and Ben Unger

6. 6. Regional Anesthesia

Tanja Frey and Peter Wu

7. 7. Perioperative Monitoring

Francis Dillon

8. 8. Ventilation Techniques

Francis Dillon

9. 9. Fluids, Electrolytes, and Transfusion Therapy

Aryana Bagchi

10. 10 Common Intraoperative Problems

Randy Fayne and Roy Soto

11. 11 Procedures in Anesthesia

Kai Matthes

12. 12 Acute Pain Management

Nalini Vadivelu and Christian Whitney

13. 13. PACU Management and Discharge

Piyush Mathur

14. 14. Perioperative Anesthetic Complications

Michael Sanford and David Nakata

15. 15. ICU, Trauma and Burn Management

Daniel Johnson

16. 16. Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery

Amanda Rhee

17. 17. Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery

Jonathan Anagnostou

18. 18. Anesthesia for General Surgery

Maged Argalious

19. 19. Anesthesia for Vascular Surgery

Roy Soto

20. 20. Anesthesia for Neurological Surgery

Josh Atkins

21. 21. Anesthesia for ENT and Ophthalmologic Surgery

Josh Atkins

22. 22. Anesthesia for Urologic Surgery

Christine Finer

23. 23. Anesthesia for Orthopedic Surgery

Robert Hsiung

24. 24. Anesthesia for Endocrine Surgery

Matvey Bobylev

25. 25. Anesthesia for Obstetrics and Gynecology

Paloma Toledo

26. 26. Anesthesia for Pediatric Surgery

Tom Romanelli

27. 27. Anesthesia for Ambulatory Surgery

Ursula Galway

28. 28. Anesthesia for Aesthetic Surgery & Outside of the O.R.

Ruchir Gupta

29. 29. Chronic Pain Management

Tanja Frey

30. 30. Anesthesia for Transplant Surgery

Amanda Rhee

31. 31. Anesthesia for the Elderly

Raymond Roy

32. 32. EKG Interpretation

Amanda Rhee

33. 33. Ethical Issues in Anesthesia

Richard Urman and Jesse Ehrenfeld

34. 34. Emergency Algorithms

Tracy Dovich

35. 35. Common Medical Phrases in Spanish

Salomon Maya

36. 36. Normal Laboratory Values

Mark Hoeft

Appendix

A. A. Common Formulae

B. B. Anesthesia Machine Checkout

C. C. Operating Room Set-Up For an Anesthesia Case

D. D. Malignant Hyperthermia Management