Main description:

Perioperative care is the care that is given before and after surgery.

This textbook is a complete guide to the anaesthetic and critical care management of patients undergoing complex surgeries in all organ systems of the body. Topics cover all age groups - neonates, children, and adults.

Divided into 11 sections, the book begins with a general overview of critical care in the perioperative period discussing airway management, pain, fluid and electrolyte therapy, shock, arterial blood gas analysis, respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation, and thromboembolism.

The following sections cover surgeries in different organ systems and patient groups - cardiothoracic and vascular, neurosciences, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, orthopaedics, head and neck, and transplantation.

The final section explains selected miscellaneous topics including nutrition, haemodynamic monitoring, echocardiography, renal replacement therapy, and antibiotics.

Compiling 700 pages, the comprehensive text is further enhanced by clinical photographs, diagrams and tables.

Key points

Comprehensive guide to perioperative critical care in neonates, children and adults
Covers complex surgeries in all organ systems
Includes discussion on imaging, airway management, and ventilation
Highly illustrated with clinical photographs, diagrams and tables

Contents:

Section 1 General

Critical care in perioperative period - need, indications, infrastructure and staffing
Supplemental oxygenation
Airway management in critical care setting
Pain, agitation and delirium in postoperative period
Goal directed fluid therapy in perioperative critical care
Shock in postoperative period
Fluid and electrolyte disturbances in the perioperative period
Arterial blood gas analysis
Acute respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation in postoperative critical care
Venous and pulmonary thromboembolism

Section 2 Cardiothoracic and Vascular

CABG - On pump and off pump
Pediatric cardiac surgeries - cyanotic and acyanotic
Valvular heart surgeries
Blunt trauma chest surgeries
Mediastinal mass excision
Major lung resections - pneumonectomies and lobectomies
Tracheal tumor surgeries
Major Vascular surgeries
Oesophageal surgeries - transthoracic, transhiatal
Perioperative MI

Section 3 Neurosciences

Brain aneurysmal surgeries
Brain tumor surgeries including awake craniotomy
Spinal surgeries
Management of patients after surgery for neurotrauma

Section 4 Pediatrics

Surgeries for developmental defects - TOF, diaphragmatic hernia, anorectal malformations
Perioperative management of pediatric major abdominal cancer surgeries

Section 5 Obstetrics & Gynecology

Postpartum obstetric hemorrhage
Major gynecological cancer surgeries
Perioperative management of patients with pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
Non obstetric major surgeries in pregnant patient

Section 6 Gastrointestinal

Perioperative management of major Abdominal Surgeries-Pancreas, Stomach, retroperitoneal mass
Major liver resections
Perioperative management of colorectal surgeries
Cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy
Blunt trauma abdomen
Emergency laparotomy including damage control surgeries
Intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome

Section 7 Genitourinary

Bladder and prostate cancer surgeries
Renal tumor surgeries including IVC thrombus
Adrenal and extraadrenal pheochromocytoma

Section 8 Orthopedics

Hemi-pelvectomies
Perioperative management of major orthopedic trauma including pelvis fracture

Section 9 Head and Neck

Major head and neck cancer surgeries
Skull base surgeries including pituitary surgery

Section 10 Transplantation

Renal transplantation
Perioperative care of patients undergoing liver transplant
Perioperative care of patients undergoing heart transplant
Perioperative care of patients undergoing lung transplant

Section 11 Miscellaneous

Nutrition in perioperative critical care setting
Prehabilitation and rehabilitation
ICU physiotherapy and weaning
Hemodynamic monitoring in postoperative critical care
Vasoactive agents
Blood transfusion in the perioperative period
Role of POCUS in the perioperative period
Management of hypertension in the perioperative period
Antibiotic strategies in postoperative period
Trans-thoracic echocardiography
Trans-esophageal echocardiography
Renal replacement therapy
Postoperative pulmonary complications and treatment
Perioperative mechanical ventilation
Sepsis and infection control in perioperative critical care
Critical care nursing
Audit and quality improvement in perioperative critical care
Communication in the perioperative period
Evaluation and management of obstructive sleep apnea during perioperative care
Neonatal postoperative critical care