Anaesthesia for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Description

• Part of the authoritative Oxford Textbooks in Anaesthesia series
• Written by experts in the field, including experienced clinicians, teachers, and examiners
• Covers all the clinical areas of anaesthesia for oral and maxillofacial surgery, including anatomy, pre-assessment, difficult airways, regional anaesthesia, and imaging
• Covers the essentials of Oral, Dental and Maxillofacial surgery for revalidation

Part of the Oxford Textbooks in Anaesthesia series, Anaesthesia for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is an authoritative, evidence based textbook on oral, dental, and maxillofacial surgery.

Oral, dental, and maxillofacial surgery represents one of the most common indications for anaesthesia worldwide. The anaesthetist can be called upon to provide anaesthesia for patients presenting with impacted or carious teeth, infections of the mucosa and adjacent structures, facial injuries, head and neck cancers, salivary gland disease, facial disproportion, temporomandibular joint disorders, cysts, and tumours of the jaws. Anaesthetists may also be involved in managing patients experiencing chronic and intractable facial pain. An understanding of this subject matter is fundamental to the safe practice of anaesthesia.

This book provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of all aspects of anaesthesia for oral and maxillofacial surgery. Designed for both consultants and trainees with an interest in this area, chapters cover the anatomy, pre-assessment, difficult airway, regional anaesthesia, imaging, and all clinical aspects for complex area.

Readership: This book is aimed at practising anaesthetists (trainees and consultants), anaesthetic practitioners, and anaesthetic nurses providing anaesthesia for oral and maxillofacial surgery. This book will also appeal to dentists and all those involved in oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Table of contents

1: Gary Enever: History of dental anaesthesia
2: Diane Monkhouse & Sanjiv Sharma: Pre-assessment of the oro-maxillofacial patient
3: Christopher Heneghan: Medicolegal aspects of anaesthesia for oral and maxillofacial surgery
4: Steve Gayer & Charles Kayes: Recognition and management of the difficult airway
5: Kaye Cantlay: The surgical airway
6: Bernard Moxham & Barry Berkovitz: Innervation of the head and neck
7: John Meechan: Regional anaesthetic techniques in oral and maxillofacial surgery
8: David Craig: Conscious sedation
9: Sean Williamson: Anaesthesia for dental surgery
10: Sandip Pal & Chandra Kumar: Anaesthesia for aesthetic surgery
11: Ian Clement: Anaesthetic implications of oral and maxillofacial infections
12: Hilary Turner & Ian Shaw: Oral and maxillofacial related injuries and hazards during anaesthesia
13: Neal Heath & Iain Macleod: Oral and maxillofacial imaging for the anaesthetist
14: Joy Curran: Anaesthesia for maxillofacial trauma
15: Timothy Vorster: Facial, oral, and airway thermal injuries and anaesthesia
16: Stephen Bonner & Anjum Ahmed-Nusrath: Anaesthesia for oral and maxillofacial malignancy
17: Charles Kelly: Adjuvant therapy for head and neck malignancy
18: Viki Mitchell: Anaesthesia for orthognathic surgery
19: Ann Black & Senthil Nadarajan: Anaesthesia for paediatric maxillofacial surgery
20: Andrew Jones: Hypotensive anaesthesia
21: Judith Wright & Sanjiv Sharma: Anaesthesia for nasal and antral surgery
22: Tara Renton & Joanna Zakrzewska: Orofacial pain
23: Chris Dodds: Sleep apnoea
24: Lindsay Garcia: Postoperative nursing considerations for the maxillofacial surgical patient