By
Lee Fleisher, MD, Robert D. Dripps Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care; Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Stanley Rosenbaum, MD
Description
This issue brings together leading specialists from diverse fields including multiple subspecialties of anesthesiology, as well as
surgery, cardiology, oncology, neurology, hospital medicine, endocrinology, and others. A multidisciplinary approach is essential to
patient safety and optimal outcomes, so this valuable and unique monograph brings the anesthesiologist up to date on current integrated
methods of preoperative assessment, consultation, and patient preparation for surgery. Article topics include preoperative evaluation
and prep of the patient for cardiac surgery; noncardiac surgery in the patient with heart disease; identification and evaluation of the
patient with lung disease; surgery on the patient with endocrine dysfunction; obesity, metabolic syndrome, and the surgical patient;
surgery in a patient with liver disease; surgery in the patient with renal dysfunction; anemia in the preoperative patient; perioperative
anticoagulant management; preop prep of the surgical patient with neurologic disease; and emergency and urgent surgery.
Included in series
The Clinics: Internal Medicine
The Clinics: Surgery
