Main description:

Perioperative Medicine uses a concise, highly practical, bulleted format designed to ensure rapid comprehension of key concepts and reinforce the reader's understanding of complex topics in perioperative medicine. It contains authoritative, up-to-date coverage of the most essential concepts in perioperative care from preoperative risk assessment to postoperative follow-up. The Editor and his contributors use their expert insight and experience to provide an in-depth review of comorbid conditions, patient and surgery-specific risk assessment, and common postoperative complications.

This new book reviews recent developments in the field, including published guidelines, and emphasizes an evidence-based, cost-effective approach designed to ensure quality, patient safety, and optimal outcomes. It is intended for use by hospitalists, general internists and subspecialists as well as anesthesiologists, surgeons, and residents in training who are caring for patients before and after surgery.

Contents:

Section 1 - Preoperative Evaluation.- 1. Role of the Medical Consultant
2. Preoperative Testing
3. Perioperative Medication Management
4. Perioperative Management of Anticoagulation
5. Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis
6. Prevention of Infective Endocarditis (Bacterial Endocarditis)
7. Surgical Site Infection Prophylaxis
8. Anesthesiology for the non-Anesthesisologist

Section 2 - Surgery-Specific Risks
9. Abdominal Surgery
10. Thoracic Surgery
11. Vascular Surgery
12. Orthopedic Surgery
13. Neurosurgery
14. Gynecologic Surgery
15. Urologic Surgery
16. Bariatric Surgery
17. Ophthalmic surgery
18. Otolaryngologic Procedures
19. Electroconvulsive Therapy

Section 3 - Preoperative Evaluation and Management of Co-existing Medical Diseases
20. Preoperative Cardiac Risk Assessment and Perioperative Management
21. Preoperative Pulmonary Evaluation
22. Endocrine Disease
23. Hematologic Disease
24. Cancer
25. Perioperative HIV
26. Preoperative Evaluation and Management for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
27. Perioperative Evaluation of GI Disease
28. Perioperative Management of the Patient with Rheumatic Disease
29. Neurologic Disease
30. Psychiatric Conditions
31. Perioperative Care of Patients with Substance Abuse
32. The Pregnant Surgical Patient

Section 4 - Postoperative Complications
33. Postoperative Fever
34. Postoperative Hypertension/Hypotension
35. Arrhythmias
36. Perioperative Chest pain/Dyspnea
37. Postoperative Pulmonary Complications
38. Postoperative Venous Thromboembolism (DVT & PE)
39. Postoperative Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid/Base Disorders
40. Renal Failure
41. Anemia and Bleeding
42. Postoperative Jaundice
43. Postoperative Stroke and Seizures
44. Postoperative Delirium
45. Pain Management