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Springer Perioperative Medicine Current Controversies 1st Editon 2016 Hardbound by Karen Stuart-Smith
This book addresses those aspects of anaestheticpractice in perioperative medicine which have a significant impact on both theimmediate and the long-term outcome for the surgical patient. PerioperativeMedicine is the natural evolution of anaesthesia from a main focus on thepatient in the operating room to a responsibility for the care of the patientfrom the time that the decision to operate is made, through to discharge fromhospital. The contributors, well-respected authors in their field, discuss therole of the perioperative medicine specialist in areas ranging frompre-operative assessment and physiological optimization via pre-habilitation,to intra-operative anaesthetic management, and post-operative care.Controversial topics discussed include fluid therapy, anaesthesia and canceroutcomes, pharmacological management of cardiac risk, and the evolution ofacute to chronic pain. Developments in regional anaesthesia, quality ofrecovery scoring, and lung ultrasound, are described.It is hoped that the chapters contained in this bookwill help to define the nascent specialty that is Perioperative Medicine, andencourage further debate, research, and expansion of this vital new frontier inanaesthetic care. Perioperative medicine: defining the anaesthesiologist’s role in shaping perioperative outcomes.- Prehabilitation.- Impact of co-morbidities, physiological status and age on survival.- Transthoracic echocardiography in the preoperative clinic.- Defining postoperative quality of recovery.- Enhanced recovery for colorectal surgery.- Perioperative beta-blockade: the pros and cons. The story of beta-blockade and cardiac protection.- Perioperative management of the diabetic patient.- Perioperative management of non-diabetic patients with hyperglycaemia (stress-induced hyperglycaemia).- Postoperative Pulmonary Complications.- Haemostatic resuscitation for perioperative bleeding.- Fluid therapy in trauma.- Role of multimodal monitoring in the perioperative period: improving outcomes in high-risk surgical patients.- Can perioperative interventions during cancer surgery affect recurrence or metastasis?.- Transverse abdominis plane block: evolution and current understanding.- Future ultrasound technologies for the perioperative physician.- Lung ultrasound in anaesthesia and critical care medicine.- The acute pain team.- The transition of acute post-operative pain to acute persistent pain to chronic pain: assessing and managing the risks.