Anesthesia Unplugged

Overview

Sharpen the procedural skills necessary for the optimal care of the anesthetized patient

Featuring an easy-to-navigate, atlas-oriented format, Anesthesia Unplugged gives you lightning-fast access to the entire spectrum of perioperative, ambulatory, regional, and general procedures. More than any other text, Anesthesia Unplugged disarmingly demystifies anesthesiology, as the book's authors and contributors take you on a engaging, yet educational voyage to places like “Intravenous World” (Part I), “Arterial Land” (Part II), and “Efficiency-Ville” (Part V). What's more, the book's comprehensive coverage is supported every step of the way by a skill-building, profusely illustrated art program.

Features:

• Authoritative, complete, and attention-getting coverage of all relevant anesthesia procedures, from the IV and laryngoscopy, to the combined spinal-epidural and transesophageal echocardiography
• Streamlined, templated format breaks down critical information into manageable chunks and allows pin-point navigation-ideal for busy residents and clinicians who need to rapidly master complex anesthesia procedures
• Amusing, engaging tone that helps simplify and spur interest in chapter content; chapters include “The Rodney Dangerfield of Lines, the IV,” “EEEEK! Do We Dare? The Brachial A-Line,” “The Mask of Zorro. Mask Ventilation,” and “The Lung's Not Down, You Idiot! Lung Isolation”
• Distinguished roster of expert contributors who deliver the most commanding perspectives on modern anesthesia with wit and wisdom
• 600 clear, content-clarifying illustrations that put key anesthesia procedures into proper clinical perspective

Table of contents

Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgements

Part I: Intravenous World

1. The Rodney Dangerfield of Lines, the IV. Chris Gallagher and Chadi Dahabra.


2. The Anesthesiologist’s Party Piece, the IJ. Karim Aboueleinin and Brantley Dollar.3. Root Beer Float? No, Floating a Swan. Ricardo Martinez-Ruiz and James Oleksa.

4. The Surgeon’s Bailiwick, the Subclavian. Karim Aboueleinin and Benjamin Yu.


5. The Bastard Step-Child, the Femoral. Craig Nelson and Jennifer Vaughn.


Part II: Arterial Land

6. The Beat to Beat Faucet, the Radial A-line. Roger Marks and Ana Lipska.

7. EEEEK! Do we Dare? The Brachial A-line. Mike Barron and Geoffrey Sanders

8. An Ever-Present Friend in Time of Need, the Femoral. Craig Nelson and Kiley Reynolds.


Part III: Into Thin Air

9. The Mask of Zorro. Mask Ventilation. Chris Gallagher and Fernando Gavia.

10. The Zirconium Jewel of Sort-of-Intubation, the LMA. Mike Lewis and Gauri Joshi.

11. The Vanilla Ice Cream of Intubation, Laryngoscopy. Bryan Robbins and Christian Diez.


12. The Crown Jewel of Intubations, Awake Fiberoptic. Chris Gallagher and Ahmed Zaky.

13.Wiretapping: The Retrograde Wire Intubation. Jong Lee and Rebacca Gilbert.

14.Fix Bayonets, the Surgical Alternative. Richard Silverman and Fani Nhuch.


Part IV: Et tu, Brute? A Stab in the Back

15.Oh Good, CSF! The Spinal. Christina Matadial and Jeffrey Schubert.

16.Oh Damn, CSF! The Epidural. Christina Matadial and Stephanie Katz.

17.Mix and Match, the Combined Spinal-Epidural. Allison Lee and Andres Missair.

18.Mending Fences, the Blood Patch. Allison Lee and Any Gruen.

19.Oh, the Little Darlin’s: Kiddie Caudal. Jim Halliday and Ramiro Gumucio.


Part V: Efficiency-Ville

20.Getting a Case Going at a Greater-than-Glacial Pace. Jas Katariya and Samir Kulkarni 196 - 203

21.The Oft-Forgotten Denoument, the Smooth Wake Up. John Sciarra and Codruta Soneru.

22.Roomsmanship. Chris Gallagher and Michael Jarrell.

23.Nasogastric Tube’s Away. Carlos Mijares and Shantanu Srinavasan.

24.Positioning is Everything. Gilbert Chidiac and Marco Foramiglio.

25. Transportation Made Somewhat Less Deadly. David Sinclair and Ricardo Irizarry.


Part VI: The Regional Landscape.

26. Armed and Dangerous, the Arm Block. Howard Palte and Ady Bermudez.

27. Leggo-Land. Howard Palte and Sarah Kafi

28. A Sympathetic Ear and a Sympathetic Block. Emilio Alarcon and David Lindley.

29. Ophthalmic Anesthesia: More than Meets the Eye. Steve Gayer and Vania Fernandez.

Part VII: Treasure Chest.

30. The Lung’s not Down, You Idiot! Lung Isolation. Lebron Cooper and Nicholas Nedeff.

31. Living Better with Electricity: Pacing. Dan Castillo and Neil Anand.

32. Echo, Echo, Echo: Transesophageal Echocardiography. Jay Grossman and Jonathan Katz.

Part VIII: Faking It.

33. Simulators. Chris Gallagher and Christina Rankin.

Biographical note

Christopher Gallagher, MD is an Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York p>
Ricardo Martinez-Ruiz, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesia at The University of Miami School of Medicine in Miami, Florida.
David A. Lubarsky, M.D. is a professor and chairman in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of Miami School of Medicine in Miami, Florida