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Birkhäuser Preanesthetic Assessment 1 1st Editon 2011 Softbound by E. Frost
The primary mission of the medical school is to create new doctors. Once the medical student has received his or her doctorate, the medical school's interest in, and acceptance of, responsibility for the continued professional development of the physician ceases almost entirely. Yet, with scientific advances in medicine increasing exponentially and the inevitable erosion of memory with time, teachings from our schools of medicine become increasingly irrelevant, forgotten, or both. To maintain competence, the physician must continuously re-educate him- or herself. CME-Continuing Medical Education-will probably never attain the status of the medical school's degree-granting undergraduate program, but medical schools and their faculties must recognize their responsibility, not creating competent physicians but also for maintaining that com only for petence. is the product of a Continuing Medical Education program This volume initiated by the Department of Anesthesiology at the Albert Einstein Col lege of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. Our Department of Anes thesiology has historically been, and continues to be, unusually active in post-doctoral education through regional and national conferences and symposia. We recognized, however, that programs that bring physicians together in one location for a limited menu of lectures, questions, and discussion reach only a fraction of the potential audience of anesthesiolo gists. Such programs, as valuable as they are, by their very structure exclude more anesthesiologists than they include. 1. The Patient with Cerebrovascular Disease.- 2. The Trauma Victim.- 3. The Intravenous Drug Abuse Patient.- 4. The Child Undergoing Outpatient Surgery.- 5. The Patient Undergoing Renal Transplantation.- 6. The Patient with Pheochromocytoma.- 7. The Patient with Known or Suspected Malignant Hyperthermia.- 8. The Spinal Cord Injury Patient.- 9. The Patient with Juvenile Laryngeal Papillomas.- 10. The Patient with Aortic Valvular Disease.- 11. The Patient in Diabetic Ketoacidosis.- 12. The Morbidly Obese Patient.- 13. The Patient with Myasthenia Gravis.- 14. The Head-Injured Patient.- 15. The Patient with Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension.- 16. The Patient with Neurofibromatosis.- 17. The Patient with Trigeminal Neuralgia.- 18. The Patient with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.- 19. The Patient with Porphyria.- 20. The Patient with Snakebite.- 21. The Patient with Sleep Apnea.- 22. The Patient with Mitral Valve Prolapse.- 23. The Elderly Patient with a Hip Fracture.- 24. The Patient with a Bleeding Disorder.- 25. The Patient with a Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysm.- 26. The Patient with Scoliosis.- Self-Assessment Questions.- Answers to Self-Assessment Questions.