Critical Care Sedation

Critical Care Sedation

This book provides a comprehensive guide to delivering analgesia and sedation to critically ill patients for professionals and caregivers being involved in the management of these patients. It discusses and explains in... read more

Moderate and Deep Sedation in Clinical Practice

Moderate and Deep Sedation in Clinical Practice

Millions of procedures requiring sedation are performed each year, covering a large array of medical specialties in both inpatient and outpatient settings. This tremendous growth has led to sedation being administered by... read more

Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression

Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression

This book brings together an international group of clinicians and researchers from a broad swath of inter-related disciplines to offer the most up-to-date information about clinical and preclinical research into ketamine... read more

Using Dynamic Variables to Guide Perioperative Fluid Management

Using Dynamic Variables to Guide Perioperative Fluid Management

Intravenous fluid administration is an integral part of patient management during anesthesia. This practice has a strong clinical rationale since a decrease in blood volume, either present before or developing during surgery,... read more

The use of continuous perineural catheters and other practices to optimize regional anesthesia in COVID-19 patients

The use of continuous perineural catheters and other practices to optimize regional anesthesia in COVID-19 patients

As anesthesiologists, we are on the front line of the fight against coronavirus disease (COVID-19), whether in the intensive care unit, operating room, or elsewhere in the hospital. Given the highly contagious nature of the... read more

The Essential Role of Anaesthesiologists in the COVID-19 Response

The Essential Role of Anaesthesiologists in the COVID-19 Response

Five out of seven billion people in this world do not have access to safe anaesthesia and surgery. Anaesthesia is essential for a well-functioning health system, as highlighted by WHA Resolution 68.15 on Strengthening Emergency... read more

Crisis Management in Anesthesiology

Crisis Management in Anesthesiology

The fully updated Crisis Management in Anesthesiology continues to provide updated insights on the latest theories, principles, and practices in anesthesiology. From anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists to emergency physicians... read more

Chinese Frontline Anesthesiologists Share COVID-19 Treatment Experience

Chinese Frontline Anesthesiologists Share COVID-19 Treatment Experience

Anesthesiologists are crucial in the treatment of COVID-19 patients, with their role encompassing anesthesia, intensive care, pain treatment and more. The job is of high risk, with medical staff at risk of getting infected... read more

Chinese Anesthesiologists Share Strategies for Health Care Response to COVID-19

Chinese Anesthesiologists Share Strategies for Health Care Response to COVID-19

Anesthesiologists treating patients at the forefront of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Wuhan, China, share valuable lessons for other practitioners as the wave of coronavirus infections rolls through other countries.... read more

Practical Issues in Anesthesia and Intensive Care

Practical Issues in Anesthesia and Intensive Care

The contents of this book are a selection taken from materials that have been developed during the preparation of continuing education courses (distance learning), whose scientific advisor is the volume editor, Professor... read more

Aldosterone Synthase in Peripheral Sensory Neurons Contributes to Mechanical Hypersensitivity during Local Inflammation in Rats

Aldosterone Synthase in Peripheral Sensory Neurons Contributes to Mechanical Hypersensitivity during Local Inflammation in Rats

Local production of aldosterone by its processing enzyme aldosterone synthase within peripheral sensory neurons contributes to ongoing mechanical hypersensitivity during local inflammation via intrinsic activation of neuronal... read more

Automated Anesthetic Management Outperforms Manual Control and May Have an Impact on Delayed Neurocognitive Recovery

Automated Anesthetic Management Outperforms Manual Control and May Have an Impact on Delayed Neurocognitive Recovery

Among older, non-frail patients undergoing moderate and high-risk noncardiac surgery, an automated anesthetic management using the combination of three independent closed-loop systems outperformed manual control and may have... read more

Prehospital On-scene Anesthetist Treating Severe TBI Patients is Associated with Lower Mortality and Better Neurological Outcome

Prehospital On-scene Anesthetist Treating Severe TBI Patients is Associated with Lower Mortality and Better Neurological Outcome

Patients with isolated traumatic brain injury (TBI) are likely to benefit from effective prehospital care to prevent secondary brain injury. Only a few studies have focused on the impact of advanced interventions in TBI... read more

Evaluation of Perioperative Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events

Evaluation of Perioperative Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events

One in 20 perioperative medication administrations included a medication error (ME) and/or adverse drug event (ADE). More than one third of the MEs led to observed ADEs, and the remaining two thirds had the potential for... read more