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Scion Publishing Bare Bones Anaesthesia by Adam Arshad|Pooja Devani|Sonika Sethi|Arjuna Thakker|Nicholas Marsden|Simran Minhas
A one-stop full-colour resource which provides tailored, guideline-specific information to prepare you for your medical school examinations.Bare Bones Anaesthesia is an exciting new text appropriate for the level of a medical student to excel in their medical school examinations. It contains all the core information you need to know and includes important MCQ and OSCE tips for those tricky situations that examiners attempt to catch medical students out on. These are highlighted throughout the textbook to emphasize their importance for your learning and to focus your understanding.Written by a team of junior doctors, who have recently been through medical schools, the book gives you the essential information in an easy-to-use format.ContentsChapter 1 – Principles of anaesthesia1.1 General anaesthesia – the basics1.2 General anaesthesia – the phases1.3 Hypnotic agents1.4 Neuromuscular blockersChapter 2 – Pre-operative assessment and planning2.1 Anaesthetic history2.2 Airway planning2.3 Bloods and investigations2.4 Co-morbidities – altering existing medications2.5 Drugs to provide2.6 DVT prophylaxis and other preparations for surgery2.7 End-stage planning2.8 Fasting2.9 Conducting the WHO surgical checklistChapter 3 – Conducting anaesthesia3.1 Induction phase3.2 Rapid sequence induction3.3 Maintaining anaesthesia3.4 End of anaesthesiaChapter 4 – Types of airway control4.1 Airway adjuncts4.2 Definitive airways4.3 Non-definitive airwaysChapter 5 – Complications of anaesthesia5.1 ComplicationsChapter 6 – Local anaesthesia6.1 What is local anaesthesia?6.2 Types of local anaesthesia6.3 Complications of local anaesthesiaChapter 7 – Regional anaesthesia7.1 Peripheral nerve blocks7.2 Intravenous regional anaesthesia7.3 Neuraxial anaesthesia7.4 Epidural anaesthesia7.5 Spinal anaesthesiaChapter 8 – Post-operative complications8.1 Post-operative pain8.2 Post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV)8.3 Other post-operative complications8.4 Post-operative pyrexiaChapter 9 – MCQ and OSCE scenarios9.1 MCQ questions9.2 OSCE scenariosChapter 10 – Glossary and references10.1 Glossary10.2 References