While most pregnant women who present to Labor and Delivery require anesthetic intervention, they typically meet the anesthesiologist for the first time in labor.

Describing the approach to anesthetic and perioperative management in different categories of high-risk patient undergoing elective noncardiac surgery, this book has sections on patients with conditions entailing cardiac and hemodynamic risks, respiratory risks, renal and metabolic risks, neurological risks, and others.

Presents novel classification, and/ or functional analysis with respect to flow meters, vaporizers, anesthesia breathing systems, and anesthesia ventilators. The chapter on 'monitoring' includes capnography, and elaborates on the state-of-the-art new cardiac output monitors.

This book fulfills all the needs of present day pain physicians as it has a stepwise description of most of the interventional pain treatment procedures. The images of the book are self-explanatory which will hopefully make performing these procedures relatively easy. The highlighting feature is the DVDs provided with this book.

The evolution of medical education has stretched far beyond the historic "see one, do one and teach one" model of learning. Problem-Based Learning has emerged within medical education as an incredibly effective method of medical instruction.

This book functions as a comprehensive and authoritative reference book in blood transfusion and blood substitutes.

This new definitive resource addresses the fundamental principles of anaesthesia, underpinning sciences and the full spectrum of clinical anaesthetic practice. An international team of experts provide trustworthy, effective, and evidence-based guidance enabling clinicians to provide the very best clinical care to patients.