A Practice of Anesthesia for Infants and Children, 7th Edition

• Presents must-know information on standards, techniques, and the latest advances in pediatric anesthesia from global experts in the field.
• Contains thoroughly updated content throughout, with new contributors to lend a fresh perspective, updated figures and tables, and the latest information on perioperative fluid management, pharmacology, interventional devices, resuscitation, and more.
• Covers key topics such as anesthetizing children with cancer, neonatal and pediatric emergencies, the obese child and bariatric surgery, interventional devices for children with congenital heart defects, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, simulation in pediatric anesthesia, patient safety and quality assurance, and more.
• Features an extensive video library of pediatric anesthesia procedures, particularly difficult airway management strategies, new positioning devices, cardiac assist devices in action, management of burn injuries, how to perform ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia blocks and techniques, and much more.
• Essentials chapters provide focused input from expert subspecialty pediatricians who share the latest information concerning hematology, pulmonology, oncology, hepatology, nephrology, and neurology.
• Includes a laminated pocket reference guide with essential, practical information, and key references at the end of each chapter that provide a quick summary for review. An extended online version is available in the app (“Pedi Anesth”; Starship Children’s Hospital, Auckland District Health Board, NZ).

An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

Edited by Charles J. Cote, MD, FAAP, Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School; Director of Clinical Research, Division of Pediatric Anesthesia, MassGeneral Hospital for Children; Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Jerrold Lerman, MD,FRCPC, FANZCA, Clinical Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Department of Anesthesiology, Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA; Brian Anderson, MD, ChB, PhD, FANZCA, FCICM, Professor, Anaesthesiology, University of Auckland and Paediatric Anaesthetist and Intensivist, Paediatic Intensive Care Unit, Auckland Children’s Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand