Contents:

Preoperative Considerations.- The Preoperative Patient Evaluation.- Airway Evaluation and Management.- The Anesthesia Machine.- Anesthesia Equipment and Monitors.- Intraoperative Considerations.- Anesthetic Techniques: General, Sedation, MAC.- Anesthetic Techniques: Regional.- Electrolytes, Fluids, Acid-Base Analysis, and Transfusion Therapy.- IV, Gastric Tube, Arterial & Central Line Placement Techniques.- Common Intraoperative Problems.- Systems Physiology and Anesthetic Subspecialties.- Physiology and Anesthesia for Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery.- Physiology and Anesthesia for Neurologic, ENT, and Ophthalmologic Surgery.- Physiology and Anesthesia for Obstetrics.- Physiology and Anesthesia for General and Bariatric Surgery.- Anesthesia for Urological Surgery.- Physiology and Anesthesia for Pediatric Surgery.- Physiology and Anesthesia for Elderly Patients.- Ambulatory Surgery and Out-of-OR (OOR) Procedures.- Anesthesia for Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery.- Postoperative Considerations.- Perioperative Acute and Chronic Pain Management.- Postoperative Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) and Common Postoperative Problems.- to Critical Care.- Special Topics.- Professionalism, Safety, and Teamwork.- Quality Assurance, Patient and Provider Safety.- Ethical and Legal Issues in Anesthesia.- Clinical Simulation in Anesthesia Education.- to Anesthesiology.- How to Be a "Star" Student, Career Options, and the Match.- History of Anesthesia and Introduction to the Specialty.- Pharmacology.- Pharmacology Principles.- Pharmacology of Intravenous Anesthetic Agents.- Pharmacology of Inhalational Anesthetics.- Pharmacology of Local Anesthetics.- Pharmacology of Adjunct Agents.