Main description:

Authored by "a superb clinician and award-winning teacher,"* Near Misses in Pediatric Anesthesiology, Second Edition is a thorough updating and significant expansion of this popular case book in the newest anesthesiology subspecialty to be approved by the American Board of Medical Specialties.

The book comprises 87 true-story clinical "near misses," including 40 cases that are brand new. Recommendations, references, and discussion accompany each case. The cases provide an ideal basis for problem-centered learning and also model how to learn from experience and to maintain professionalism during the lifelong development of clinical expertise.

Dr. Brock-Utne's latest case book provides a pediatric complement to his bestselling Case Studies of Near Misses in Clinical Anesthesia (Springer, 2012) and Clinical Anesthesia: Near Misses and Lessons Learned (Springer, 2008) .

* Jay B. Brodsky, MD, from the Foreword.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Case 1: Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy under General Anesthesia

Chapter 2. Case 2: Sudden Anesthesia System Failure

Chapter 3. Case 3: Broviac Catheter Placement in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Chapter 4. Case 4: Occluded Reinforced (Armored) Endotracheal Tube

Chapter 5. Case 5: The Too-Small Rigid Bronchoscope

Chapter 6. Case 6: Anaphylaxis, Anaphylactoid Reaction, Or What Was It?

Chapter 7. Case 7: Generalized Convulsions after Regional Anesthesia

Chapter 8. Case 8: Hypotension during Microdiscectomy

Chapter 9. Case 9: Intraoperative Hypotension in a Patient Receiving Chronic Steroids

Chapter 10. Case 10: Changing a Nasotracheal Tube for an Oral Tube in the Intensive Care Unit

Chapter 11. Case 11: Blocked Intravenous Line during Rapid-Sequence Induction

Chapter 12. Case 12: Postinduction Difficult Intubation

Chapter 13. Case 13: Blunt Upper Airway Trauma in a Patient with Recent Polysubstance Abuse

Chapter 14. Case 14: The Stuck Elevator

Chapter 15. Case 15: Postoperative Upper Airway Obstruction

Chapter 16. Case 16: Postoperative Respiratory Complications in a Neonate

Chapter 17. Case 17: Pregnant Teenager with a Bad Outcome

Chapter 18. Case 18: Tension Pneumoperitoneum

Chapter 19. Case 19: A Patient with Status Asthmaticus

Chapter 20. Case 20: Intraoperative Decrease in Electrocardiogram Amplitude: Cause for Concern?

Chapter 21. Case 21: Potential Disaster: An Intravenous Line That Stops Working in the Perioperative Phase

Chapter 22. Case 22: Ventilatory Management in Major Thoracic Incisional Injury

Chapter 23. Case 23: Airway Leak in a Prone Patient

Chapter 24. Case 24: Difficulty in Extubation

Chapter 25. Case 25: Tonsillectomy

Chapter 26. Case 26: An Unusual Cause of a Serious Cardiac Arrhythmia

Chapter 27. Case 27: A Patient with Supraglottic Mass

Chapter 28. Case 28: Pressurized Intravenous Hetastarch

Chapter 29. Case 29: Intraoperative Hypotension

Chapter 30. Case 30: Hematuria

Chapter 31. Case 31: Congenital Complete Heart Block

Chapter 32. Case 32: Neonatal Respiratory Distress

Chapter 33. Case 33: Respiratory Distress in the Intensive Care Unit

Chapter 34. Case 34: The Butterfly Needle (Abbott)Chapter 35. Case 35: Hypotension on Induction of Anesthesia in a Trauma Patient

Chapter 36. Case 36: Delayed Postoperative Respiratory Obstruction

Chapter 37. Case 37: An Abnormal Capnogram

Chapter 38. Case 38: Retropharyngeal Abscess

Chapter 39. Case 39: Rising End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide

Chapter 40. Case 40: Acute Abdomen

Chapter 41. Case 41: Difficulty in Ventilation in the Postinduction Period

Chapter 42. Case 42: Unexplained Low Oxygen Saturation

Chapter 43. Case 43: Occlusion of an Endotracheal Tube in a Neonate

Chapter 44. Case 44: Surgical Emphysema after a Motor Vehicle Accident

Chapter 45. Case 45: Postoperative Respiratory Arrest

Chapter 46. Case 46: Rapid Increase in Body Temperature after Induction of General Anesthesia

Chapter 47. Case 47: Intraoperative "Oozing"

Chapter 48. Case 48: A Tip for Nasotracheal Intubation

Chapter 49. Case 49: A Case of Anisocoria Following General Anesthesia

Chapter 50. Case 50: A Routine Tonsil- and Adenoidectomy

Chapter 51. Case 51: Drug Overdose

Chapter 52. Case 52: Cardiac Arrest in a Neonate

Chapter 53. Case 53: Bilateral Tourniquets. Beware

Chapter 54. Case 54: Neurofibromatosis. A Warning.

Chapter 55. Case 55: A Machine Failure

Chapter 56. Case 56: A Severe Case of Bronchospasm

Chapter 57. Case 57: A Peanut in the Airway

Chapter 58. Case 58: A Sprinkler Spike Lodged in a Patient's Head

Chapter 59. Case 59: Infusion of Cold Blood. Should We Worry?

Chapter 60. Case 60: Respiratory Arrest after Extubation

Chapter 61. Case 61: Sudden Increase in End-Tidal CO2

Chapter 62. Case 62: A Case of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)

Chapter 63. Case 63: Intraoperative Airway Obstruction

Chapter 64. Case 64: An Anterior Mediastinal Mass. What Will You Do?

Chapter 65. Case 65: A "Routine" MRI Case

Chapter 66. Case 66: A Serious Problem during Neurosurgery

Chapter 67. Case 67: A Case of Severe Intra-abdominal Pressure

Chapter 68. Case 68: A Case of Severe Laryngospasm

Chapter 69. Case 69: An ETT Suction Problem

Chapter 70. Case 70: A Child Refusing an OperationChapter 71. Case 71: Why So Sleepy?

Chapter 72. Case 72: Check Your Facts

Chapter 73. Case 73: A Strange Capnogram

Chapter 74. Case 74: Relying on Others

Chapter 75. Case 75: Monitored Anesthesia Care. Watch Out.

Chapter 76. Case 76: An Intermittently Worrisome Capnography Trace

Chapter 77. Case 77: Cardiac Arrest at the Conclusion of Neurosurgery

Chapter 78. Case 78: Watch Out

Chapter 79. Case 79: A Complication of Central Venous Cannulation?

Chapter 80. Case 80: An Example of Murphy's Law

Chapter 81. Case 81: A Tragic Case

Chapter 82. Case 82: Hemoptysis from a 2-Month Tracheostomy

Chapter 83. Case 83: A Potentially Serious IncidentChapter 84. Case 84: Rusty Material in an Oxygen Flow Meter

Chapter 85. Case 85: A Surprising Solution to an Airway Emergency

Chapter 86. Case 86: An Airway Leak in the ICU

Chapter 87. Case 87: Pediatric Dental Anesthesia