Avoiding Common Anesthesia Errors (2nd Edition)

Description

Selected as a Doody’s Core Title for 2022 and 2023!

The full-color Avoiding Common Anesthesia Errors, significantly updated for this second edition, combines patient safety information and evidence-based guidance for over 300 commonly encountered clinical situations. With a format that suggests conversations between an attending and a trainee, the book helps you identify potential problems and develop a treatment plan to minimize the problem. Brief, easy-to-read chapters cover basic and advanced topics and help you digest information in minutes!

Key Features

• Coverage spans the entire field of Anesthesiology—including subspecialties such as airway management, critical care and pain medicine.
  Now with 30% more topics than the first edition.
• Contributors now include more international authors and Certified Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs).
• Features critical updates to popular chapters and sections related to legal issues, professional practice topics and coding and payment.
• Part of the Avoiding Common Errors series, which presents hard-earned clinical wisdom in an informal, easy-to-read style.

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Author Biography

Catherine Marcucci MD
Senior Research Anesthesiologist, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Brian T. Gierl MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Jeffrey R. Kirsch MD
Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Senior Medical Director, Perioperative Services, Vice Chair, Faculty Development; Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin/Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Chair Emeritus, Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon