Anesthesiology

Although anaesthesia has made possible many remarkable advances in medical treatment in the twentieth century, most patients know little about the procedure, and many of them are unduly apprehensive about its risks and consequences. This succinct, sympathetic and authoritative book aims toallay these anxieties, covering all aspects of the procedure …

Major surgery on the eye and orbit requires special techniques in which anaesthesia plays a central role. Equally, the proliferation of day surgery and the suitability of minor eye operations to local anaesthetic and day care has led to many new developments in local as well as generalanaesthesia. This book covers both general and local anaesthesia …

The care of the premature baby is in itself difficult enough. If the complications of surgical intervention and the administration of anesthetics are added then the surgeon, anaesthetist and intensive care therapist will be confronted with a host of critical problems in preserving the lifeand normal function of the baby, often over a long period of …