Anaesthesia for children : with a section on intensive care

The new second edition of Dr Brown’s highly–acclaimed book covers basic physiology, pharmacology, the child in hospital, all aspects of paediatric anaesthesia including chapters on equipment, monitoring, anaesthesia for each surgical sub–specialty, hypothermia and hypertension. Practical techniques which are of central importance to anaesthesia such as ventilation, intubation and intravenous cannulation are described in detail with appropriate illustrations to support the descriptions. Major revisions have been made in chapters where there have been significant changes in anaesthetic and surgical practice, for example cardiac surgery, and a new chapter has been included on pain which covers the considerable developments that have been made in regional anaesthesia. In all, seven totally new chapters have been added to this edition: * The Development of Intensive Care * Transport of the Critically Ill * Upper Airway Obstruction * Intensive Care of the Child with Shock * Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation * Prevention and Management of Pain * Neurological Emergencies