Oxford american handbook of anesthesiology chm

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. Sign In or Create an Account. Advanced Search.

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Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia 3 ed. Read More. Your current browser may not support copying via this button. All rights reserved. I picked up a copy of the Oxford American Handbook of Anesthesiology at a time in my residency when I needed a condensed text to help me navigate rigorous surgical specialty rotations and found the manual to be a well-conceived, concise handbook. While not an exhaustive source, it is lengthy enough to provide summative information on a broad range of anesthesia topics, but at the same time it is portable enough to have within reach when a quick quandary arises.

Now, 17 months later, the book was speckled with marginalia, taped twice down the spine with surgical tape, and worn from being as integral to my operating room day as a stethoscope. Starting into my subspecialty anesthesia rotations and in anticipation of the annual anesthesia in training exam, I left Ezekiel in the locker and adopted the more voluminous Oxford text, anticipating a more in-depth resource for specialty knowledge and broad review.

The Oxford Handbook required some logistic adjustment. On call, it stayed in the call room for consultation instead of in my white coat pocket. It has proven to be what it claims: not a pocket book, but a handbook—a concise reference that is easier to tote than the tomes by Miller or Barash or Morgan 2—4 but that still covers the practical highlights of these texts.

Also, the book may not be structurally suited to outlasting residency training. On the whole, the content of the book exceeded my expectations. It approximated the most practical information of much larger texts into succinct points and gave enough detail to be useful board preparation without being encumbered with excessive detail.

It was no help when I grabbed the text looking for the milligram per kilogram dosage of clindamycin for a pediatric patient, or titration parameters for dexmedetomidine, or alprostadil. This omission is the only categorical flaw I found in the text.

Doctors McQuillan, Allman, and Wilson have assembled an excellent resource for the anesthesia trainee that has much to offer to even experienced providers. The section on anesthetic risk, for instance, provides a very palatable format for expressing the risks of anesthesia to patients in lay terms, such as the probability of winning the lottery or experiencing a mishap in traffic. The handbook is an impressively condensed, useful resource that offers high-yield information from a much larger library in a single volume that totes easily into the operating room.

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