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Basics of Anesthesia

Widely acknowledged as the foremost introductory text, this latest edition provides the most authoritative and complete overview of anesthesia theory and practice.

Features:
* Written by two of the foremost experts in the field
* A second color makes the book even easier to use

Updated information includes new and rapidly changing areas in anesthesia practice including:

* Office-based anesthesia
* New drugs-opioids, local anesthetics, muscle relaxants
* New monitors-bispectral index (BIS monitor)
* New regional anesthetic techniques-combined spinal and epidural for obstetrical anesthesia
* Cancer pain management
* Anesthesia simulators in education of residents and practitioners
* New concepts in pharmacokinentics (context-sensitive half-time)
* New airway management techniques-laryngeal mask airway (LMA)

What's New
* New chapters that reflect the emergence of important components of the anesthesiologist's professional practice:

* Opioids is now a free-standing chapter, rather than a subsection of a chapter.
* Outpatient Surgery-Hospital, Surgicenter, or Office-Based is a new title for the chapter in the 3rd edition entitled: Outpatient Surgery.