Preface 4

How to use your textbook 5

About the companion website 8

Abbreviations 9

1 History of anaesthesia 10

2 Monitoring 12

3 Equipment 14

4 Airway devices 16

5 Fluid management 18

6 Preoperative preparation of the patient for surgery 21

7 Temperature regulation 24

8 The perioperative patient journey 26

9 General anaesthesia - inhalational anaesthetics 28

10 General anaesthesia - intravenous anaesthetics 30

11 Local anaesthetics 32

12 Neuromuscular blocking drugs 34

13 Acute pain 36

14 Postoperative nausea and vomiting 38

15 Chronic pain 40

16 The airway 42

17 Emergency anaesthesia 44

18 Obstetric anaesthesia 46

19 Ophthalmic anaesthesia 48

20 Paediatric anaesthesia 50

21 Cardiac and thoracic anaesthesia 52

22 Regional anaesthesia 54

23 Anaesthetic emergencies in the operating theatre 56

24 Anaesthetic emergencies in the wider hospital 59

25 Trauma 62

26 Orthopaedic anaesthesia 64

27 Anaesthesia and obesity 67

28 Anaesthesia and old age 70

29 Anaesthesia and diabetes 72

30 Anaesthesia for vascular surgery 74

31 Anaesthesia for ENT and maxillofacial surgery 76

32 Awareness 78

33 Anaesthesia for ECT, dental surgery and special needs 80

34 Postoperative management 82

35 Anaesthesia away from the hospital setting 84

Index 86