Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The history of anesthesia -- Practice and operating room management -- Experimental design and statistics -- Occupational health -- Professional liability, quality improvement, and anesthetic risk -- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of anesthesia -- Genomic basis of perioperative medicine -- Electrical and fire safety -- Acid-base and fluids -- Hemotherapy and hemostasis -- Basic principles of clinical pharmacology -- Autonomic nervous system : physiology and pharmacology -- Nonopioid intravenous anesthesia -- Opioids -- Inhalation anesthesia -- Neuromuscular blocking agents -- Local anesthetics -- Preoperative evaluation and management -- Anesthesia for patients with rare and coexisting diseases --

Malignant hyperthermia and other pharmacogenetic disorders -- Delivery systems for inhaled anesthetics -- Airway management -- Patient positioning -- Monitoring the anesthetized patient -- Epidural and spinal anesthesia -- Peripheral nerve blockade -- Anesthesia for neurosurgery -- Respiratory function in anesthesia -- Anesthesia for thoracic surgery -- Cardiovascular anatomy and physiology -- Anesthesia for cardiac surgery -- Anesthesia for vascular surgery -- Anesthesia and the eye -- Anesthesia for otolaryngologic surgery -- Renal physiology and anesthesia for urologic surgery -- Anesthesia and obesity -- Anesthesia and gastrointestinal disorders -- Anesthesia for minimally invasive procedures --

Anesthesia and the liver -- Anesthesia for orthopedic surgery -- Anesthesia and the endocrine system -- Obstetric anesthesia -- Neonatal anesthesia -- Pediatric anesthesia -- Anesthesia for the geriatric patient -- Anesthesia for ambulatory surgery -- Monitored anesthetic care -- Trauma and burns -- The allergic response -- Drug interactions -- Anesthesia provided at alternative sites -- Office-based anesthesia -- Anesthesia for organ transplantation -- Postoperative recovery -- Management of acute postoperative pain -- Chronic pain management -- Anesthesia and critical care medicine -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Disaster preparedness and weapons of mass destruction.

All age.