1. Perioperative
medicine: defining the anaesthesiologist’s role in shaping perioperative
outcomes; Stundner O and Memtsoudis SG.
2. Prehabilitation; Durrand J, Hackett R, Yates D, Danjoux
G.
3.
Impact of co-morbidities, physiological status and age on survival; Carlisle
J.
4. Transthoracic echocardiography in the preoperative clinic; Canty DJ and Royse CF.
5. Defining
postoperative quality of recovery; Bowyer
A and Royse CF.
6. Enhanced recovery for colorectal surgery; Fawcett WJ.
7. Perioperative
beta-blockade: the pros and cons. The story of beta-blockade and cardiac
protection; Higham H and Foëx P.
8. Perioperative
management of the diabetic patient; Soldevila
D, Lucas AM, Zavala R, Mauricio D.
9. Perioperative
management of non-diabetic patients with hyperglycaemia (stress-induced
hyperglycaemia); Giménez-Pérez G,
Salinas I, Puig-Domingo M and Mauricio D.
10. Postoperative
Pulmonary Complications; Forrest P.
11. Haemostatic
resuscitation for perioperative bleeding; Spinella
PC, Pidcoke HF and Cap AP.
12. Fluid
therapy in trauma; James MFM and
Chappell DPD.
13. Role
of multimodal monitoring in the perioperative period: improving outcomes in
high-risk surgical patients; Green D.
14. Can
perioperative interventions during cancer surgery affect recurrence or
metastasis?; Abdelrahman D and Buggy DJ.
15. Transverse
abdominis plane block: evolution and current understanding; O’Leary R-A and McDonnell JG.
16. Future
ultrasound technologies for the perioperative physician; McLeod G.
17. Lung
ultrasound in anaesthesia and critical care medicine; Canty DJ, Haji K, Denault A and Royse, A.
18. The acute pain team; Edwards
DA, Kent M, Le-Wendling L and Tighe PJ.
19. The transition of
acute post-operative pain to acute persistent pain to chronic pain: assessing
and managing the risks; Shipton EA.
Karen Stuart-Smith was
born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, and graduated in Physiology and Medicine
from the University of Glasgow. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of
Anaesthetists and has enjoyed a long career as a clinical anaesthetist. Early
training in cardiorespiratory research led to an enthusiasm for applying
scientific methodology to clinical practice, and she is also a passionate
believer in the role of clinical audit in assessing the quality of patient
care. Karen presently resides in New Zealand, where she continues to practice
as an anaesthetist and enjoys the outdoor lifestyle in her spare time.
This book addresses those aspects of anaesthetic practice in perioperative medicine which have a significant impact on both the immediate and the long-term outcome for the surgical patient. Perioperative Medicine is the natural evolution of anaesthesia from a main focus on the patient in the operating room to a responsibility for the care of the patient from the time that the decision to operate is made, through to discharge from hospital. The contributors, well-respected authors in their field, discuss the role of the perioperative medicine specialist in areas ranging from pre-operative assessment and physiological optimization via pre-habilitation, to intra-operative anaesthetic management, and post-operative care. Controversial topics discussed include fluid therapy, anaesthesia and cancer outcomes, pharmacological management of cardiac risk, and the evolution of acute to chronic pain. Developments in regional anaesthesia, quality of recovery scoring, and lung ultrasound, are described.
It is hoped that the chapters contained in this book will help to define the nascent specialty that is Perioperative Medicine, and encourage further debate, research, and expansion of this vital new frontier in anaesthetic care.