Anaesthetics for junior doctors and allied professionals : the essential guide / edited by Daniel Cottle and Shondipon Laha ; foreword by Peter Nightingale.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.The fundamental principles of anaesthesia / Daniel Nethercott -- 2.A very brief history of anaesthesia / Daniel Nethercott -- 3.The anaesthetic day / Daniel Cottle -- 4.Preoperative assessment and investigations / James Hanison -- 5.Intra-operative patient monitoring / Shondipon Laha -- 6.The anaesthetic machine / Shondipon Laha -- 7.Anaesthetic breathing systems / Leanne Darwin -- 8.Ventilation / Daniel Cottle -- 9.Airway assessment / Charlotte Ash -- 10.Airway management / John Moore -- 11.Basic patient positioning / Daniel Flaherty -- 12.Recovery, handover and protocols / Jasbir Chhabra -- 13.Post-operative analgesia / Amanda Shaw -- 14.Drugs that put you to sleep / Daniel Cottle -- 15.Drugs to keep you asleep: the inhalational agents / Kate Bailey -- 16.Muscle relaxants / Craig Spencer -- 17.Drugs that stop you vomiting / Kenneth McGrattan -- 18.Emergency drugs / Claire Moore -- 19.NCEPOD categories and anaesthetic implications / Nick Doree -- SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES -- 20.The pregnant patient / Sophie Bishop -- 21.The obese patient / Gillian Campbell -- 22.The cardiac patient presenting for non-cardiac surgery / Balsam Altemimi -- 23.The patient with respiratory disease / Nick Wisely -- 24.Paediatric anaesthesia / Simon Maguire -- 25.Day case surgery and anaesthesia / Kailash Bhatia -- 26.Transferring the anaesthetised patient / Paul Dean -- 27.Regional anaesthesia / Zara Townley -- 28.Stridor / Geraint Briggs -- 29.Anaphylaxis / Geraint Briggs -- 30.Major haemorrhage / Steven Benington -- 31.Rapid sequence induction at a remote site / Nitin Arora -- 32.Asthma and anaesthesia / Tina Duff.