Drug Performance in Practicing Anesthesia

Description

The most recent findings are incorporated into Clinical Pharmacology for Anesthesiology, which clearly explains what anesthesia practitioners need to know about the medications they employ daily. This thorough textbook employs a visual approach with plenty of tables and pictures to help the professional anesthetic care provider, resident, and anesthesia student. The work begins with a summary of key pharmacology ideas (pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and drug interactions), and then it thoroughly clinically describes all drug classes that are pertinent to anesthesiologists. Features: - Integrates clinical pharmacology concepts into patient treatment, emphasizing the interactions between anesthetic medications for analgesia, sedation, and hypnosis. - Provides a summary of the anesthetics and additional medicines (diuretics, antiemetics, antiseizure meds, etc.) utilized in the perioperative setting. - Explains how patient variables like age, blood loss, and body weight affect medication behavior. - Uses computer simulations to display drug concentration and effects for a few different anesthetic procedures, such as premedication, induction, maintenance, emergence, and sedation. - Contains simulations of representative anesthetic methods for a range of difficult surgical procedures.