Anesthesia for Orthopedic Surgery

Written by leading experts in the field, this is the definitive clinical text/reference on the many important aspects of anesthesia for orthopaedic surgery - including trauma, pediatrics, the elderly, and outpatients. In twenty-five chapters, the book's authoritative contributors provide keen insights and guidance on the most effective and important methods and techniques for assessment, evaluation, and management.;Among the topics the book explores in depth are anaesthesia for the patient with rheumatoid arthritis; the patient with neuromuscular disease; the elderly patient (with a specific focus on cardiopulmonary stress of orthopaedic procedures); anaesthesia for upper and lower extremity surgery; management of the patient with spinal cord injury; spinal instrumentation (including preoperative and postoperative procedures); surgical considerations for joint replacement, back surgery, and the paediatric patient; intraoperative complications; ambulatory orthopaedic surgery; proper use of the tourniquet; management of massive blood loss; spinal cord monitoring; positioning; pain control special chapters on chronic pain management); and the role of the anesthesiologist in reflex sympathetic dystrophy and causalgia.