Anesthesia and the brain : clinical, functional, metabolic, and vascular correlates
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Anesthesia and the brain : clinical, functional, metabolic, and vascular correlates
Churchill Livingstone, 1988
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
This book documents the available and relevant information on the effects of anaesthetics on the brain. It reviews the functional, metabolic and vascular effects of anaesthetics and examines basic concepts such as the awake, hypothermic and anaesthetized brain. The bulk of the text examines inhalational and intravenous anaesthetics and other drugs. Remaining chapters discuss assessing and protecting the brain.
Table of Contents
- Basic concepts - the awake brain, the hypothermic brain, the anaesthetized brain
- inhalational anaesthetics - nitrous oxide, halothane, enflurane and isoflurane
- intravenous anaesthetics - barbiturates, narcotics, non-barbiturate induction agents
- other drugs - local anaesthetics, muscle relaxants, miscellaneous drugs
- clinical conundrums - assessing the brain, protecting the brain, anesthetizing the brain
- lagniappe - seizures, serendipity, science, and sham.
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