Complications in Anesthesia

by John L. Atlee, Brenda Bucklin (Editor), Mark A. Chaney (Editor)

This easy-to-use resource details all of the complications likely to be encountered in clinical practice. The scope has been expanded to include the critical care setting. Internationally renowned authorities explain the nature, likelihood, and causes of each problem, and then guide you through the appropriate treatment measures. Each type of complication is discussed in its own concise chapter making it easier to quickly locate and research specific topics of interest.

1040 pages, Hardcover

First published October 23, 1998

About the author

Dr. Atlee earned his BA from Franklin and Marshall College, 1963; his Doctor of Medicine (1967) from Temple University, and a Master of Science in Pharmacology as a postdoctoral research fellow (1970) from Temple University Graduate School of Medicine. He was a staff anesthesiologist at the United States Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland (1970-1973). He and his wife then moved to Wisconsin, where he was a Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and later a Professor at The Medical College of Wisconsin. During those tenures, he was a member of and consultant to numerous academic medical institutions, professional medical societies, boards and organizations. Additionally, Dr. Atlee frequently lectured abroad and was a prolific writer of textbooks and peer reviewed journal articles. In retirement he pursued his entrepreneurial interests by working to develop medical devices. His many accomplishments testify to the Atlee family's long history of serving as physicians in America, dating back to colonial times.

Reviews

[Nancy Foster · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is simply fabulous!!! I love it how it is both concise, nicely organized and each chapter speaks about a very likely scenario whehere something can go wrong in the operating room. In Anesthesia, things can go bad real fast, and knowing how to not only properly respond to a bad and unexpected situation is expected for the job, but the benchmark between being an alsorand anesthesiologist to the exception is when you can anticipate 5 steps ahead and prevent a disaster from happening in the first place.

That doesn't demerit anesthesiologists of course, nobody can be certain whether that bread & butter case entering the OR will end up with malignant hyperthermia, and elevation in the ETCO2 values alone could mean a huge array of other issues between a faulty anesthesia machine (including a power failure and central oxygen dispensing error), or a nicked endotracheal tube that requires urgent reintubation.

I like it how the book thinks out of the box and presents a few really unusual scenarios a gigantic array of procedures ranging from neurosurgery to patients with premorbid diseases such as HIV and anesthestic considerations in disseminated cancer (yes, plenty of intravenous anesthetic drugs can trigger cancer cells by inhibiting the immune system).

I cannot recommend this book enough!