Handbook of Ambulatory Anesthesia

About this book

• Highly practical – everything you need to know if you’re involved in perioperative care
• Covers both the clinical and administrative aspects of ambulatory and office-based surgery
• Second edition fully updated and expanded
• Heavily supplemented with tables, figures, boxes and appendices for quick reference

Surgical care has undergone a dramatic shift in the past few decades away from inpatient-hospital to ambulatory procedures. More and more, ambulatory surgical centers have become the facility of choice for many types of operations. Advances in minimally invasive surgery, anesthesia techniques and other technological advances will only increase this trend in the years ahead.

Anesthesia practice continues to evolve, as well. Anesthesiologists in all settings must adjust their approaches to an ambulatory focus for patient selection, sedation, anesthesia, pain management, and postoperative recovery. Concise and clinically oriented, HANDBOOK OF AMBULATORY ANESTHESIA is designed to quickly and effectively steer the practitioner through the challenges and demands of daily practice.

The editors and authors are all recognized experts whose outstading insights will bring readers back to this book again and again. The chapters are consistently formatted with introductory outlines, practical illustrations, informative boxes, clinically oriented tables, and key references. Highlights of the book include:

- preoperative evaluation - anesthesia considerations for minimally invasive and advanced ambulatory surgery procedures - management of common clinical conditions for pediatric and adult patients - preoperative preparation - specific anesthesia techniques: sedation, regional, and general - anesthesia outside the O.R. - office-based anesthesia - recovery and discharge - quality management and accreditation- cost containment - administrative issues - appendix of most commonly referenced figures and tables

In a busy practice, no matter the setting, HANDBOOK OF AMBULATORY ANESTHESIA is certain to be among the most frequently used, clinically relevant books in your collection. Keep it with you in your daily practice!

Table of contents

Preface
Contributors
Chapter 1 Preanesthesia evaluation and testing - L. Reuven Pasternak
Chapter 2 Minimally invasive and advanced ambulatory procedures - Shireen Ahmad
Chapter 3 Adult clinical challenges - Donald M. Mathews and Rebecca S. Twersky
Chapter 4 Pediatric clinical challenges - Lucinda L. Everett and Gennadiy Fuzaylov
Chapter 5 Pediatric perioperative management - Raafat S. Hannallah
Chapter 6 Adult preoperative preparation: equipment and monitoring - J. Lance Lichtor
Chapter 7 Sedation techniques - Tong J. Gan and Beverly K. Philip
Chapter 8 Regional anesthesia - Holly C. L. Evans, Karen C. Nielsen, and Susan M. Steele
Chapter 9 General anesthesia - Ralph Gertler and Girish P. Joshi
Chapter 10 Anesthesia outside the operating room - Steven C. Hall
Chapter 11 Offi ce-based anesthesia - Hector Vila, Jr., Meena S. Desai, and Rafael V. Miguel
Chapter 12 Postanesthesia care recovery and management - Johnathan L. Pregler and Patricia A. Kapur
Chapter 13 Discharge process - Frances Chung and Jeremy Lermitte
Chapter 14 Quality management, regulation, and accreditation - Jerry A. Cohen, Sorin J. Brull, and Walter G. Maurer
Chapter 15 Ambulatory surgery center profi tability, effi ciency, and cost containment - Tom Archer, Steve Mannis, and Alex Macario
Chapter 16 Administrative aspects of ambulatory surgery - William H. Beeson
Appendices
Index