Hazards and Errors in Anaesthesia

✍ Scribed by D. A. Buxton Hopkin MD, FFARCS (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 299
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book has a twofold purpose, first to provide information for beginners about the pitalls and hazards of anaesthesia and second to help the occasional anaesthetist in remote areas when confronted with requests to anaesthetise for unfamiliar surgical operations. The book is not intended to replace any standard text for anaesthetic examinations, and indeed, its lack of information about basic sciences makes it unsuitable for such a purpose. The contents can be regarded as a distillate of 45 years of practical anaesthesia, in both primitive and sophisticated conditions, from the ether and chloroform rag and bottle days onwards through cyclopropane, trichloroethylene, relaxants and lytic cocktails to halothane. The only operation mentioned of which I have no practical experience is thymectomy and removal of an argentaffinoma. I have never knowingly encountered malignant hyperpyrexia, but had one experience of what we called ether convulsions with hyperpyrexia, which could have been, and probably was, the same thing. An attempt has been made to arrange the book in four logical sections. It begins with the hazards of preparation-assessment of risks to patients particularly, but Part I also includes chapters on medicolegal and occupational hazards to anaesthetists.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
General Considerations....Pages 3-4
Cardiovascular Disease....Pages 5-9
Respiratory Disease....Pages 10-12
Haematological Disorders....Pages 13-20
Muscular Disorders....Pages 21-22
Other Intercurrent Diseases....Pages 23-25
Adverse Reactions Due to Drug Therapy....Pages 26-28
Medicolegal Hazards....Pages 29-33
Occupational Hazards....Pages 34-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Preparation and Use of Anaesthetic Apparatus....Pages 45-57
Fires, Explosions and Electric Shock....Pages 58-62
Induction....Pages 63-79
Muscle Relaxants....Pages 80-88
Endotracheal Intubation....Pages 89-95
Positioning Patients for Surgery....Pages 96-98
Maintenance of Anaesthesia....Pages 99-103
Local Analgesia....Pages 104-118
Cardiovascular Hazards....Pages 119-126
Controlled Hypotension....Pages 127-131
Intravenous Therapy and Central Venous Pressure Lines....Pages 132-139
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Blood Transfusion....Pages 140-146
Recovery....Pages 147-154
Cardiac Arrest....Pages 155-158
Intensive Care....Pages 159-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Stomach Content....Pages 171-174
Shock: Vascular Responses to Injury, Haemorrhage and Infection....Pages 175-184
Disturbances of Fluid, Electrolytes and Acid-Base Balance....Pages 185-188
Some Common Emergency Procedures....Pages 189-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Abdominal Surgery....Pages 193-198
Gynaecological Surgery....Pages 199-202
Operative Obstetrics....Pages 203-212
Urological Surgery....Pages 213-218
Orthopaedic Surgery....Pages 219-224
Neurosurgery....Pages 225-231
Ear, Nose and Throat and Maxillofacial Surgery....Pages 232-237
Paediatric Surgery....Pages 238-243
Dental Surgery....Pages 244-247
Ophthalmic Surgery....Pages 248-250
Burns....Pages 251-254
Thoracic Surgery....Pages 255-258
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Vascular Surgery....Pages 259-261
Miscellaneous Surgical Procedures....Pages 262-267
Endoscopy....Pages 268-272
Radiological Departments....Pages 273-276
Cardiac Departments....Pages 277-280
Day Surgery....Pages 281-284
Back Matter....Pages 285-298

✦ Subjects

Anesthesiology; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine