Practical Procedures in Anaesthesia and Critical Care


Book Description

This is a highly practical guide to the procedures and techniques commonly encountered in anaesthesia and critical care medicine. Step-by-step, detailed instructions, a simple layout and full colour illustrations and photos show the anaesthetist how to carry out procedures safely and competently.




Practical Procedures in Anaesthesia and Critical Care


Book Description

This is a practical guide to the procedures and techniques commonly encountered in anaesthesia and critical care medicine. Step-by-step, detailed instructions, a simple layout and full colour illustrations and photos show the anaesthetist how to carry out procedures safely and competently.










Practical Procedures in Anaesthesia and Critical Care


Book Description

The ability to perform a wide variety of practical procedures safely and competently is essential for any doctor involved in the practice of anaesthesia and intensive care. Junior doctors especially are now called upon to gain competence in many invasive practical procedures in an increasingly short space of time, whilst also understanding the theory behind them. This highly practical book is the only guide needed to the procedures and techniques commonly used in anaesthesia and critical care medicine. Step-by-step, it clearly explains each technique and procedure, enabling the reader to fully understand how and why they are performed. Full colour photographs illustrate each technique, and every chapter covers the same essential information: definition, indications, contraindications, complications, equipment, sites, and technique, for ease of use. This book will be used by all junior trainees in anaesthesia, along with junior doctors from other specialities working in intensive care units. It will also be useful to any senior anaesthetist who wishes to update or refresh their knowledge, as well as anyone working in the emergency ward who performs any of these procedures.




Practical Procedures in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care


Book Description

A practical illustrated guide to all the commonly used procedures that technicians and trainee anaesthetists and intensivists need to learn, many of which have to be practised for the first time in an emergency.




Practical Procedures in Anesthesia and Critical Care


Book Description

A practical manual of the procedures commonly encountered by the junior anaesthetist and intensivist. Every procedure provides a didactic description to the reader and the main part of each procedure will explain set-up and actual stages with call-outs to relevant diagrams This will be followed by descriptions of possible complications, with notes on follow-up care to prevent or manage these.




Essentials of Equipment in Anaesthesia, Critical Care, and Peri-Operative Medicine E-Book


Book Description

Essentials of Equipment in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Peri-Operative Medicine is a highly practical textbook for trainees in anaesthesia and an invaluable guide for all those who work with anaesthetic equipment, including anaesthetic and intensive care nurses and operating department practitioners. The superbly organized and easy-to read format of the book has been retained from previous editions. The text has been comprehensively updated and more focused on the FRCA with the addition of exam tips and new questions. A new chapter addresses the topical and ever expanding field of ‘Point of Care Testing’ in anaesthesia and intensive care. Clear colour photographs and illustrations as well as over 100 interactive self-assessment OSCE questions complete this concise account of anaesthetic equipment and its use in clinical settings.




Bedside Procedures in the ICU


Book Description

This handbook is a guide to best practice in interventions commonly encountered in the ICU. It is clinically orientated providing :step-by-step explanations and illustrations of most invasive procedures, check lists to make sure the indication is right, check lists to ensure appropriate assessment once the procedure has been carried out. The information is easily accessible providing practical advice and essential background for every member of the multi-disciplinary team caring for critically ill patients. It will serve the senior consultant who has not performed a procedure for some time as well as the junior doctor in need of an aide memoire.




Essentials of Equipment in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine - E-Book


Book Description

Easy to read and follow, Essentials of Equipment in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine makes an otherwise dry subject digestible and easy to learn. This practical textbook comprehensively covers all the equipment used in the operating theatre and intensive care unit, including why it is used and any related safety concerns. It has been fully updated in its sixth edition to include new technologies introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic. This is ideal as the main text for all trainees undertaking the primary FRCA exams and is also suitable anyone who works with anaesthetic equipment, including anaesthetic and intensive care nurses and operating department practitioners. It features concise and consistent text and illustrations, self-assessment features, and exam tips. Portable, concise and simply formatted – a perfect practical companion Clear coloured images and illustrations bring the text to life Follows the Royal College of Anaesthetists postgraduate training and exam syllabus Summary boxes, more than 100 exam style questions, and OSCE stations and exam tips all aid the reader in exam revision Covers new equipment and fully updated relevant to current practice Suggested further reading fully updated New information on: Aladin Cassettes; Glostavent machine; CONTRAfluran system; videolaryngoscopy and high definition camera use in intubation and endoscopy; use of ultrasound in epidural; Penthrox; NRFit devices; Cell saver; ECMO