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Elsevier Advances in Anesthesia 2018 1st Edition by McLoughlin, Thomas M.
Advances in Anesthesia highlights the year's significant medical advances, providing one source to review the essential information updates for the Anesthesiologist in that year. The distinguished editorial board, led by Dr. Thomas McLoughlin, includes Drs. Richard Dutton, Laurence Torsher, and Francis Salinas. The board has assembled a first-rate volume for 2018, with topics including care of the severely injured orthopedic patient, patient satisfaction, emergency preparedness and mass casualty considerations, anticoagulant reversal agents, perioperative blood pressure management, postoperative management of nausea and vomiting, anesthesia for noncardiac surgery in patients with implanted LVAD, neurocognitive impact of anesthesia in children, modalities and techniques for labor epidural analgesia and anesthesia, PECS and Serratus Plane Blocks, Transversus Abdominus Plane (TAP) Blocks, cardiac dysrhythmias, right heart failure and pulmonary hypertension, and risks of "non-rate based harms." Preface1. Care of the Severely Injured Orthopedic Trauma Patient: Considerations for Initial Management, Operative Timing, and Ongoing Resuscitation2. Patient satisfaction in anesthesia: implementation, relevance, and identification of meaningful measures3. Emergency preparedness and mass casualty considerations for anesthesiologists4. Optimal perioperative blood pressure management5. Updates in Management of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting6. Anesthesia for noncardiac surgery in patients with implanted LVAD7. Neurocognitive Impact of Anesthesia in Children8. Update on modalities and techniques for labor epidural analgesia and anesthesia9. Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) Blocks 10. Cardiac dysrhythmias: understanding mechanisms, drug treatments, and novel therapies11. Right heart failure and pulmonary hypertension12. Anesthesiology Closed Claims Analysis: Trends and Lessons Learned