Smith and Aitkenhead’s Textbook of Anaesthesia 8th Edition

Smith and Aitkenhead’s Textbook of Anaesthesia 8th Edition

Smith and Aitkenhead’s Textbook of Anaesthesia, Eighth Edition, edited by Jonathan Thompson, Iain Moppett and Matthew Wiles, is a comprehensive and internationally respected guide to modern anaesthesia, perioperative medicine and critical care.

Published by Elsevier, this clinically relevant textbook has served as a core resource for trainee anaesthetists and perioperative healthcare professionals for more than four decades. It combines the scientific principles underlying anaesthetic practice with practical guidance for everyday patient care.

The book follows the complete perioperative pathway, beginning with preoperative assessment and optimisation and progressing through the conduct of anaesthesia, airway management, monitoring, pain control, complication management, recovery and postoperative care.

The thoroughly updated eighth edition includes 49 chapters covering basic sciences, pharmacology, physiology, physics, equipment, patient safety, general and regional anaesthetic techniques, intensive care and anaesthesia for a broad range of surgical specialties.

Key Features

• Comprehensive eighth edition of an internationally respected textbook
• Covers all major aspects of anaesthesia and perioperative care
• Combines essential scientific principles with clinical practice
• Provides clear, concise and practical explanations
• Follows the complete perioperative patient journey
• Covers preoperative assessment, optimisation and preparation
• Explains general, regional and local anaesthetic techniques
• Includes airway management and perioperative monitoring
• Covers anaesthetic complications and critical incidents
• Includes intensive care and chronic pain management
• Addresses anaesthesia for all major surgical specialties
• Includes point-of-care ultrasonography
• Discusses quality, safety and sustainability in anaesthesia
• Extensively cross-referenced for efficient study
• Aligned with the FRCA syllabus
• Suitable for examination preparation and clinical consultation

Section 1: Basic Sciences

• General principles of pharmacology
• Data, statistics and clinical trials
• Inhalational anaesthetic agents and medical gases
• Intravenous anaesthetic and sedative drugs
• Local anaesthetics
• Physiology and pharmacology of pain
• Nausea and vomiting
• Muscle function and neuromuscular block
• Cardiovascular system
• Respiratory system
• Renal system
• Fluid, electrolyte and acid–base balance
• Metabolism, stress responses and thermoregulation
• Blood, coagulation and transfusion

Section 2: Physics and Apparatus

• Basic physics for the anaesthetist
• Anaesthetic apparatus and equipment
• Clinical measurement and monitoring

Section 3: Fundamentals of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

• Quality and safety in anaesthesia
• Preoperative assessment and preparation
• Intercurrent and coexisting disease
• Consent and patient information
• Practical conduct of anaesthesia
• Airway assessment and management
• Acute and chronic pain management
• Local and regional anaesthetic techniques
• Complications during anaesthesia
• Management of critical incidents
• Resuscitation
• Point-of-care ultrasound
• Postoperative and recovery-room care
• Sustainability in anaesthesia

Section 4: Clinical Anaesthesia

• Anaesthesia for older and frail patients
• Anaesthesia for patients with obesity
• Paediatric anaesthesia
• Anaesthesia for day surgery
• General, gynaecological and genitourinary surgery
• Orthopaedic surgery
• ENT, maxillofacial and dental surgery
• Ophthalmic surgery
• Vascular, endocrine and plastic surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Thoracic surgery
• Cardiac surgery
• Obstetric anaesthesia
• Emergency and trauma anaesthesia
• Anaesthesia in resource-limited settings
• Anaesthesia outside the operating theatre
• Organ-transplantation anaesthesia
• Intensive care medicine

Recommended For

• Novice and intermediate trainee anaesthetists
• Anaesthesia residents and registrars
• FRCA Primary and Final candidates
• EDAIC examination candidates
• MD, DA and DNB Anaesthesia candidates
• FCPS Anaesthesia candidates
• Practising anaesthesiologists
• Critical-care and intensive-care physicians
• Pain-medicine trainees
• Operating-theatre and perioperative professionals
• Medical colleges, hospitals and institutional libraries

Book Information

Buy Smith and Aitkenhead’s Textbook of Anaesthesia in Bangladesh

Order the original Smith and Aitkenhead’s Textbook of Anaesthesia 8th Edition, edited by Jonathan Thompson, Iain Moppett and Matthew Wiles, from Century Publishers. We supply original and imported anaesthesia, perioperative medicine and critical-care books to doctors, trainees, hospitals, institutions and medical libraries throughout Bangladesh.