Practical Ambulatory Anesthesia

Johan Raeder is Director of Ambulatory Anesthesia, Oslo University Hospital, and Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Oslo, Norway. Richard D. Urman is Director of Anesthesia Services, Ambulatory Care Center (Chestnut Hill), and Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

• Preface; 1. Introduction to ambulatory surgery and anesthesia Sherine Hanna, Neal A. Mehta and Johan Raeder; 2. Organization of ambulatory surgery and anesthesia Audrice Francois and Johan Raeder; 3. Patient and procedure selection Jennifer M. Banayan, Johan Raeder and Bobbie-Jean Sweitzer; 4. Pharmacology Claude Abdallah, Richard D. Urman and Johan Raeder; 5. Anesthetic techniques Niraja Rajan, Richard D. Urman and Johan Raeder; 6. Regional anesthesia for ambulatory surgery Ramprasad Sripada, Shuchita Garg and Johan Raeder; 7. Multimodal management of pain and post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in ambulatory surgery Dawn Schell and Jaspreet Somal; 8. Practical recipes from start (preop) to finish (post discharge) Niraja Rajan, Srikantha Rao and Johan Raeder; 9. Postoperative care Sekar S. Bhavani; 10. Anesthetic techniques for subspecialty surgery Niraja Rajan, Srikantha Rao and Johan Raeder; 11. Pediatric anesthesia Fatima Ahmad; 12. Aesthetic surgery Fatima Ahmad; 13. Anesthesia for gastrointestinal endoscopy John E. Tetzlaff and Walter Maurer; 14. Management of emergencies in ambulatory setting Fatima Ahmad; 15. Office-based anesthesia Johann Patlak, Fred E. Shapiro, Johann Patlak, Fatima Ahmad and Richard D. Urman; 16. Controversies in ambulatory anesthesia Steven Butz; 17. Current and future trends in ambulatory anesthesia Steven Butz; Index.

'I would recommend it for those who have already got a good understanding of anesthesia provision in the day surgery setting. It would be a good recommended reading list addition for trainees in anesthesia.' Daphne Martin, Journal of Perioperative Practice