Trusted for two decades by practitioners, residents, CRNAs, and students, the Sixth Edition of this best-selling manual continues to emphasize the clinical fundamentals involved in the safe administration of anesthesia, perioperative care, and pain management.

Helpful features sharpen clinical decision-making:

• Comprehensive content addresses the entire perioperative period with coverage of pre-, intra-, and post-operative anesthesia and pain management.
• Single institutional approach from a renowned center assures consistent, professional guidance from experienced clinicians.
• Convenient outline format provides quick access to essential material.
• Key terms highlighted in boldface type facilitate rapid information retrieval.
• A supplemental, alphabetical drug appendix provides a quick reference for important drug information
• Reading lists in each chapter provide opportunities for further investigation.

NEW and UPDATED chapters address:

• New guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Expanded drug index and tables of normal laboratory values
• Ambulatory anesthesia
• Guidelines for preoperative evaluation
• Complementary and alternative medicine
• Minimally invasive surgery
• Anesthesia for bariatric surgery
• Regional anesthesia techniques
• Recommendations for cardiac anesthesia
• Transplantation anesthesia