Overview
- Aims to improve patient care and safety, enhance the efficiency of hospital resources, and diminish patient concerns by comprehensively addressing any harbored fears
- Authored by two anesthesiologists who work in a university hospital with extensive experience in a large anesthesia-led preoperative evaluation clinic
- Each section consists of chapters delineating a specific disorder, including special chapters dealing with topics such as pregnancy, surgery in the chronic opioid user and the frail patient
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Table of contents (49 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Vascular
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Front Matter
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Pulmonary
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About this book
This book uses a case-based approach to provide current information on a range of medical issues with the goal of enhancing preoperative evaluation and optimization. It meets the market need for a resource that concisely encapsulates current knowledge on the medical management of specific topics in a setting relevant to the preoperative clinic. In so doing the book aims to improve patient care and safety, enhance resource use, facilitate appropriate and timely management of preexisting conditions and diminish patient concerns.
Organized into sections according to body system, each section consists of chapters delineating a specific disorder. Each chapter starts with a clinical vignette followed by a question-and-answer style investigation of the relevant issues. These questions attempt to address commonly encountered clinical dilemmas where opinion often differs between, and occasionally within, medical sub-specialties. Expertly written chapters are also supplemented bya number of chapters which address special considerations such as the frail patient and chronic opioid use.
Preoperative Assessment: A Case-Based Approach is an invaluable reference for all physicians involved in preoperative assessment including anesthesiologists, surgeons, internists, family doctors and residents in these fields. Nurse practitioners and other allied heath professionals involved in preoperative evaluation may also find this a book a valuable and timely resource.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Derek Dillane, MB BCh BAO MMedSci FCARCSI
Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
Barry A. Finegan, MB BCh BAO FRCPC
Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Preoperative Assessment
Book Subtitle: A Case-Based Approach
Editors: Derek Dillane, Barry A. Finegan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58842-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58841-0Published: 24 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58844-1Published: 24 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58842-7Published: 23 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 326
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, Primary Care Medicine