Stoelting's Anesthesia & Co-Existing Disease 4th South Asia Edition  (Paperback, Agarwal)

A book to assist anesthesiologists in their role as perioperative physicians This South Asia edition of the anesthesiology classic Stoelting's Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease serves as a ready reference for perioperative care of patients with co-existing diseases. The book provides a detailed description including pathophysiology, medical management and anesthesia care of most diseases encountered in the routine practice of anesthesia. The management of anesthesia is presented in a concise. comprehensive manner, giving the guidance required to provide safe anesthesia care in the perioperative period, avoiding the complications that may arise from preexisting conditions. Easy-to-follow algorithms, and latest recommendations and guidelines make it a useful companion to anesthesiologists. As a special feature for postgraduate students, this book incorporates exam questions at the end of each chapter. Salient Features • Presents detailed descriptions of common diseases and highlights of some rare diseases • Almost all chapters are updated with latest guidelines and current literature, as applicable • New chapter added: "Perioperative Risk Assessment in Anesthesia' •Particularly relevant additions done in chapters related to respiratory diseases, metabolic disease, endocrine diseases, pregnancy, and cancer • Anaesthetic considerations added in tropical diseases, elaborately added in infectious diseases chapter • Anaesthetic considerations added in detail in dementia, liver diseases, and liver transplantation Includes chapter on anesthesia implications in patients with shake bite and scorpion bite, this was added for the first time in the previous South Asian edition of this book-an uncommon topic to be found in anaesthesia textbooks • Includes dedicated chapters on burns and postburn sequelae ? Features many figures, tables, diagrams, and photos to clearly understand concepts and to clarify critical points • Presents key points at the end of each chapter to summarize the content • Features exam-oriented questions at the end of each chapter, for the benefit of exam-going MD and DNB anesthesiology residents Adaptation Editors Jyolsha Agarwal MD, DHM, FIPM, is an Anaesthesiologist and Interventional Pain Physician, working as Professor in Department of Anaesthesia at Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, New Delhi. She did her MBBS from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, and MD Anaesthesiology and Critical Care from Sawal Man Singh Modical College, Jaipur, India. She has received dedicated training in anaesthesia super specialties such as cardiac, nouro, gastro-onco and bariatric anaesthesia. She has also done Diploma in Hospital Management and is a national external assessor with National Quality Assurance Standards. Her special areas of interest apart from Anaesthesia include Pain Management, Regional Nerve Blocks, healthcare quality and patient safety. Nishkarsh Gupta, MD, DNB, MNAMS, PGCCHM, FIPM, is working as Professor in Department Onco-Anaesthesiology and Palliative Medicine at Dr BRAIRCH, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He is alumnus of Maulana Azad Medical College and a gold medalist. He is editor of Indian Journal of Palliative Care and is on editorial board/panel of various other journals. He is the chief editor of the first South Asian edition of Clinical Anesthesia by Barash and Understanding Anesthesia Equipment by Dorsh and Dorsh. He is also an editor of five more books including Airway Manual, Techniques in Anesthesia, Onco-Critical Care, Update in Onco-Anesthesia and Problem-Based Learning Discussion in Onco-Anesthesia. He has more than 250 publications in various national and international journals and has also authored several book chapters. He received MK DEY AWARD 2022 by Indian College of Anesthesiologists at Chandigarh. He also received 'Best Researcher Award in 2021 by ISA, Varanasi, and the "Best Reviewer Award' in ISACON, Ahmedabad, apart from several other awards received in the past. He is an instructor of various skill-based training programs and has been faculty in several national and international conferences. He is involved in many research projects funded by AIIMS and national agencies like ICMR.