By Baughman VL, Golembiewski JA, Gonzales JP, Alvarez W, eds.

The ninth edition of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Drug Handbook presents information on more than 2,000 medications used in the care of surgical or critically ill patients. This is a must-have drug reference for all critical care practitioners.

The handbook follows an easy-to-use, dictionary-like format, with medications organized alphabetically by brand and generic name. Each monograph includes up to 36 fields of information, including anesthesia and critical care concerns, use, dosage, monitoring parameters, and anesthetic drug interactions, where applicable.

Supplemental information includes a Special Topics/Issues section addressing perianesthetic patient management issues and an Appendix covering abbreviations and measurements, comparative drug charts, therapy recommendations, and more. A Pharmacologic Category Index is included.

Updates to this edition:

• 50 new drug monographs
• Two new special topics – dosing considerations for the critically-ill patient with morbid obesity; and perioperative/periprocedural management of anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapy
• Extensive special topics updates including anesthesia considerations for neurosurgery; anesthetic considerations in the substance-abusing patient; continuous renal replacement therapy; perioperative management of the diabetic patient; postoperative nausea and vomiting; and preoperative evaluation of the cardiac patient for noncardiac surgery

ISBN: 978-1-59195-275-6; 2010; 1,821 pages; softbound

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