Book contents
- Anesthesia for The High Risk Patient
- Anesthesia for The High Risk Patient
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the second edition
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Risk and risk assessment
- Chapter 2 Lessons from anesthetic audits and epidemiological studies
- Chapter 3 Assessment of cardiovascular risk
- Chapter 4 Perioperative use of cardiac medications in the high-risk patient
- Chapter 5 Pharmaco-physiological approaches to the high-risk surgical patient
- Chapter 6 Respiratory risk and complications
- Chapter 7 Analgesia for the high-risk patient
- Chapter 8 Regional anesthesia for the high-risk patient
- Chapter 9 Anemia, coagulopathy and blood transfusion
- Chapter 10 The obese or malnourished patient
- Chapter 11 Smoking, alcohol and recreational drug abuse
- Chapter 12 Identification of the deteriorating patient in the perioperative period
- Chapter 13 Perioperative renal insufficiency and failure
- Chapter 14 The critically ill patient undergoing surgery
- Chapter 15 The elderly patient
- Chapter 16 The patient with cardiac disease undergoing noncardiac surgery
- Chapter 17 Vascular surgery
- Chapter 18 Gastrointestinal surgery
- Index
Chapter 6 - Respiratory risk and complications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
- Anesthesia for The High Risk Patient
- Anesthesia for The High Risk Patient
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the second edition
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Risk and risk assessment
- Chapter 2 Lessons from anesthetic audits and epidemiological studies
- Chapter 3 Assessment of cardiovascular risk
- Chapter 4 Perioperative use of cardiac medications in the high-risk patient
- Chapter 5 Pharmaco-physiological approaches to the high-risk surgical patient
- Chapter 6 Respiratory risk and complications
- Chapter 7 Analgesia for the high-risk patient
- Chapter 8 Regional anesthesia for the high-risk patient
- Chapter 9 Anemia, coagulopathy and blood transfusion
- Chapter 10 The obese or malnourished patient
- Chapter 11 Smoking, alcohol and recreational drug abuse
- Chapter 12 Identification of the deteriorating patient in the perioperative period
- Chapter 13 Perioperative renal insufficiency and failure
- Chapter 14 The critically ill patient undergoing surgery
- Chapter 15 The elderly patient
- Chapter 16 The patient with cardiac disease undergoing noncardiac surgery
- Chapter 17 Vascular surgery
- Chapter 18 Gastrointestinal surgery
- Index
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- Anesthesia for the High-Risk Patient , pp. 84 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009