Editorial Review:

The single most comprehensive hands-on guide to the practice of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management - in full color!

Here at last is a reference that covers the practice of Regional Anesthesia in its entirety, providing practitioners and students with both the physiologic principles and specific, state-of-the-art patient-management protocols and techniques.

Recognized leaders in the specialty have filled this richly illustrated volume with authoritative, completely practical help. You'll find algorithms for managing or avoiding a wide range of common clinical dilemmas or complications. You get time-saving tools such as intravenous-to-oral opioid conversion tables and PCA setup guides as well as no-nonsense selection of nerve block techniques and advice on their strengths and pitfalls. This handy reference helps you make wise choices about anesthetics, dosing intervals, equipment, and perioperative management of patients receiving single-injection or continuous nerve blocks or spinal or epidural anesthesia. It tells you how to successfully manage patients with suspected epidural hematoma or neurologic injuries - and much more.

• Filled with full-color, high-quality, detailed illustrations and clinical images of actual patients
• Covers the entire field of regional anesthesia, including nerve stimulator and ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blocks, from imaging and instrumentation to step-by-step instructions for employing them in adults and children
• Details how to achieve reliable anesthesia and analgesia for surgical interventions on the face and upper and lower extremities
• Provides information on the advantages and disadvantages of using regional anesthesia in patients with coexisting diseases
• Offers guidance on acute pain management of adults and children in the perioperative period and in the ER
• Features up-to-date information on the etiology, prevention, and management of a wide range of complications

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

An great must have book:

As a regional anesthesia lover, I must say that this book and all the proffesional that wrote there, are simply excelent!

The Definative Source on Regional Anesthesia:

After patiently waiting for it's release I was thrilled to get my copy of "Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management" edited by Admir Hadzic. Finally there is a true textbook of regional anesthesia not simply a step-by-step instruction manuel for performing a block. That information is of course included (in the terrific fashion we have come to expect from NYSORA) but it is completmented by the relevent pharmacology, physiology and functional anatomy that will help you become a successful practitioner... more info

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