The entire patient journey is covered, from preoperative assessment and investigation, through informed consent, to post-operative analgesia. There are substantial sections dealing with acute pain and the management of intra-operative emergencies. A comprehensive drug formulary is provided. The updates to this handbook reflect developments in the field up to March For information regarding what has been updated, please see Updates and Amendments. Access to the complete content on Oxford Medicine Online requires a subscription or purchase.
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Access to the complete content on Oxford Medicine Online requires a subscription or purchase. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts for each book and chapter without a subscription. Please subscribe or login to access full text content. Of course it does: most practices are common and most knowledge is shared covalently. The use of ultrasound for regional nerve blocks is now universal, and malignant hyperthermia requires dantrolene treatment wherever it occurs.
Once one has gotten past pethidine for meperidine and paracetamol for acetaminophen, however, differences abound. Mivacurium is still available in England, while target-controlled infusions have not penetrated the United States.
References to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the Trust are not familiar to American readers; nor is the high dependency unit. Measurements in kPa are usually translated into mmHg, but not always. Recommendations for perioperative diabetes management also differ from those usually presented in the United States.
Just the same, there is copious information on many topics in this book that warrants having it for ready reference. Even so, thumbing through this handbook felt delightfully like hitchhiking through the English countryside of operating theatres.
Taking this tour, I gained an appreciation of what was similar and what differed in our practices of anesthesia in We have learned from each other over the years, and that reciprocity is alive and well represented in this book.
American and British beginners in our field will best be served by reading texts constructed in their respective environments. More seasoned American anesthetists, on the other hand, can benefit from learning about practice in the United Kingdom, and this handbook is the perfect vehicle for that experience.
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