Main description:

Perioperative Addiction addresses an issue that every anesthesiologist will encounter many times during the course of his or her career: the patient who arrives for operative care under the influence of legal or illegal drugs. The editors and contributors provide expert guidance on how to identify and manage the addicted patient, approaching the subject from the vantage points of the specific drug and of special patient populations.

Features:

* Guidance for spotting and managing addicted patients

* All common and important drugs of addiction, from opioids, cocaine, club drugs, and alcohol, to tobacco, marijuana, nitrous oxide, inhalants, and propofol

* Special populations, including pregnant women, pain patients, adolescents, older patients, and healthcare professionals

* Fascinating overview of the long history of addiction

* Genetic basis of addiction, and the range of pharmacological treatments for addiction

Contents:

Table of Contents
Dedication
Foreword
David L. Reich, MD
Preface
Ethan O. Bryson, MD and Elizabeth A.M. Frost, MD, MBChB, DRCOG

Part I: Background
Chapter 1: A History of Addiction in Medical Personnel
Elizabeth A.M. Frost, MD, MBChB, DRCOG
Chapter 2: The Genetic Basis of Addiction
Chad Epps, MD, Elizabeth Laura Wright, PhDc, MNA, CRNA
Chapter 3: Pharmacologic Treatments for Addiction
Clifford Gevirtz, MD, MPH, Ethan O. Bryson, MD, Elizabeth A.M. Frost, MD, MBChB, DRCOG

Part II: Specific Drugs
Chapter 4: The Anesthetic Implications of Opioid Addiction
Michael C. Lewis, MD, Fouad Souki, MD
Chapter 5: The Cocaine-Addicted Patient
Alan D. Kaye, MD, PhD, Julia L. Weinkauf, MD
Chapter 6: Club Drugs
Samuel DeMaria Jr., MD
Chapter 7: Anesthesia and Alcohol Addiction
Andrew Schwartz, MD, David Knez, DO
Chapter 8: Tobacco, the Smoking Gun?
Elizabeth A.M. Frost, MD, MBChB, DRCOG
Chapter 9: Marijuana, nitrous oxide and other inhaled drugs
Ethan O. Bryson, MD, Elizabeth A.M. Frost, MD, MBChB, DRCOG
Chapter 10: Propofol Abuse
Elizabeth A.M. Frost, MD, MBChB, DRCOG, MD, Ethan O. Bryson, MD

Part III: Specific Populations
Chapter 11: Drugs, Alcohol and Pregnant Women: Anesthetic implications for mother and newborn
Migdalia Saloum, MD, Jonathan N. Epstein, MD
Chapter 12: Prescription drugs: Implications for the chronic pain patient
Amy S. Aloysi, MD, Ethan O. Bryson, MD
Chapter 13: The Addicted Adolescent Patient
Corey Scher, MD, Ethan O. Bryson, MD, Elizabeth A.M. Frost, MD, MBChB, DRCOG
Chapter 14: The Addicted Geriatric Patient
Sherry Cummings, PhD, R. Lyle Cooper, PhD, LCSW
Chapter 15: The Drug-Seeking Healthcare Professional
Dirk Wales, Ethan O. Bryson, MD
Chapter 16: Non-narcotic anesthetic options for the patient in recovery from substance abuse
Heather Hamza, CRNA, MS