This is the New Edition of the world's best-selling review book on anesthesiology, combining comprehensive coverage of essential knowledge with an easy-to-use format. Its in-depth, yet succinct discussions make it the ideal way for readers to master the information they need to know.

• Concise coverage of a broad variety of timely topics makes this the perfect resource for certification, recertification, or use as a refresher on every aspect of the specialty.
• Over 60 entirely new or completely rewritten chapters reflect a more comprehensive range of material than ever before.
• Brand-new discussions explore anesthetic management for cardiopulmonary bypass, off-pump coronary bypass, and automatic internal cardiac defibrillator procedures; arrhythmias; anesthesia for magnetic resonance imaging; occupational transmission of blood-borne pathogens; preoperative evaluation of the patient with cardiac disease; anticoagulation and the neuraxis; regional anesthesia and pain relief in children, including combined, continuous spinal, and epidural; and much more.
• Updated discussions deliver the latest information on ocular complications, pacemakers, perioperative myocardial ischemia, latex allergy, the autonomic nervous system, obstetric anesthesia, aspiration pneumonia, and other timely concerns.