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Author:   Adam C. Adler ,  Arvind Chandrakantan ,  Ronald S. Litman
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 19.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   0.760kg
ISBN:  

9781108465519

ISBN 10:   110846551
Pages:   530
Publication Date:   05 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword; List of contributors; 1. Normal parameters for paediatric anesthesia; 2. Pharmacology and physiology in the term neonate; 3. Anesthetic neurotoxicity in children; 4. Preoperative anxiety; 5. Postoperative nausea and vomiting in children; 6. Emergence delirium; 7. Anesthesia care for the premature infant; 8. Monitoring of the pediatric patient; 9. Blood and transfusion; 10. Asthma; 11. Sepsis; 12. Malignant hypothermia; 13. Cystic fibrosis; 14. Muscular dystrophy; 15. Spinal muscular atrophy; 16. Burns management; 17. Pediatric trauma; 18. Infant hernia repair and prevention of postoperative apnea; 19. Anterior mediastinal masses; 20. Esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula; 21. Phyloric stenosis; 22. Congenital diaphragmatic hernia; 23. Thoracic surgery in children; 24. Abdominal masses: neuroblastoma; 25. Abdominal masses: wilms tumor; 26. Congenital hyperinsulinism and pancreatectomy; 27. Hepatic poroenterosomy: kasai procedure; 28. Liver transplantation; 29. Renal transplantation; 30. Myringotomy and ear tube placement/upper respiratory infection; 31. Adenotonsillectomy; 32. Tracheobronchial foreign body; 33. Laryngotracheal reconstruction surgery; 34. Thyroid surgery; 35. Myelomeningocele and hydrocephalus; 36. Pediatric neurological tumors; 37. Epilepsy surgery; 38. MoyaMoya disease; 39. Cleft lip and palate; 40. Craniosynostosis; 41. Anesthesia for dental procedures; 42. Strabismus surgery; 43. Anesthesia for penile procedures; 44. Bladder exstrophy; 45. Anesthesia for ex utero intrapartum therapy (EXIT); 46. Midgestational fetal procedures: prenatal repair of an open neural tube defect; 47. Scoliosis surgery; 48. Pectus excavatum: the nuss procedure; 49. Vertical expandable prosethetic titanium rib insertion; 50. Pediatric epidural anesthesia; 51. Upper extremity nerve blocks; 52. Lower extremity nerve blocks; 53. Truncal blocks; 54. Local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST); 55. Acute postoperative pain management; 56. Chronic pediatric pain; 57. Distraction techniques for pediatric pain management; 58. Transitional circulation; 59. Patent ductus arteriosus; 60. Coarctation of the aorta; 61. Atrial septal defects; 62. Ventricular septal defects; 63. Anesthesia for cardiac catheterization; 64. Tetraology of fallot; 65. Transposition of the great arteries; 66. Anomalous pulmonary venous return; 67. Truncus arteriosus; 68. Pulmonary hypertension in children; 69. The fontan patient; 70. Ventricular assist devices; 71. Noncardiac surgery in a glenn patient; Index.

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Adam C. Adler, is a physician at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine specializing in pediatric general and cardiovascular anesthesiology. Dr Adler is a clinical researcher having authored numerous peer reviewed publications in addition to a variety of invited speaking engagements. He has received the prestigious appointment as a Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography with a focus on education and research surrounding the perioperative use of point of care ultrasound. Arvind Chandrakantan is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas. Arvind is a physician scientist whose work centers around the neurocognitive phenotype and mechanisms of pediatric obstructive sleep apnea. He does both clinical and basic science research in pediatric OSA and is the PI in several ongoing studies of the disorder. Ronald S. Litman is an Attending Anesthesiologist in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Litman is a widely sought-after speaker, and the author of hundreds of published articles, abstracts, and several books, most notably Basics of Pediatric Anesthesia (2016), which is used in training programs worldwide. Dr Litman is the medical director of the MHAUS hotline, and the medical director of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices. He is a member of the FDA's Anesthesia and Analgesia Drug Products Advisory Committee and received a Masters in Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

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