Clinical cases in anesthesia / [edited by] Allan Reed, Francine S. Yudkowitz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Coronary artery disease -- Recent myocardial infarction -- Congestive heart failure -- Aortic stenosis -- Mitral stenosis -- Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy -- Cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators -- Cardiac tamponade -- Patient with a left ventricular assist device presenting for noncardiac surgery -- Noncardiac surgery after heart transplantation -- Coronary artery bypass grafting -- One-lung ventilation -- Thoracoscopy -- Intracranial mass, intracranial pressure, venous air embolism, and autoregulation -- Intracranial aneurysm -- Carotid endarterectomy -- Electroconvulsive therapy -- Spine surgery -- Transsphenoidal hypophysectomy -- Depolarizing neuromuscular blockade -- Nondepolarizing neuromuscular blockade -- Antagonism of nondepolarizing neuromuscular blockade -- Monitoring the neuromuscular junction -- Myasthenia gravis -- Malignant hyperthermia -- Diabetes mellitus -- Thyroid disease -- Para thyroidectomy -- Perioperative corticosteroid administration -- Pheochromocytoma -- Carcinoid syndrome -- Full stomach -- Major hepatic resection -- Open abdominal aortic repair -- Endovascular thoracic aortic repair -- Transurethral resection of the prostate -- Super morbid obesity -- Robotic prostatectomy -- Kidney and pancreas transplantation -- Open eye injury and intraocular pressure -- Retinal detachment -- Tympanomastoidectomy -- The difficult airway -- Laser laryngoscopy -- Functional endoscopic sinus surgery -- Transfusion reaction -- Perioperative coagulopathies -- Blood replacement -- The jehovah's witness patient -- Sickle cell disease -- Total hip replacement -- Brachial plexus anesthesia -- Lower extremity anesthesia -- Labor and delivery -- Preeclampsia -- Abruptio placentae and placenta previa -- Anesthesia for nonobstetric surgery during pregnancy -- Thrombocytopenia in pregnancy -- Abdominal wall defects -- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia -- Tracheoesophageal fistula -- Pyloric stenosis -- Congenital heart disease -- Preterm infant -- Adenotonsillectomy -- Foreign body aspiration -- MRI and the down syndrome child -- Acute postoperative pain -- Low back pain -- Postherpetic neuralgia -- Complex regional pain syndrome -- Cancer pain management -- Ambulatory surgery -- Office-based anesthesia -- Thoracic trauma -- Burns -- Abdominal trauma -- Asthma -- Hypothermia -- Postanesthesia care unit discharge criteria -- Delayed emergence, coma, and brain death -- Neonatal resuscitation -- Pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Do not resuscitate -- Acute respiratory distress syndrome -- Respiratory failure -- Cardiovascular system -- Sepsis and multisystem organ dysfunction syndrome -- Renal system -- Central nervous system.

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