Anesthesia Emergencies

edited by Keith J. Ruskin, M.D., professor of anesthesiology and neurosurgery; and Stanley H. Rosenbaum, M.D., professor of anesthesiology, medicine, and surgery (Oxford University Press) This book contains lists of anesthetic emergencies, organized alphabetically and by organ system. Each section contains the name of the problem and a short definition; two or three sentences describing the pathophysiology; and checklists for immediate management, diagnosis, and subsequent management.