Full Description
Series editors areProfessor of Anaesthesia, St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK P Neville Robinson, FRCA, Consultant Anaesthetist, Northwick Park Hospital, Middlesex, UK. Other titles in the series are: "Obstetric Anaesthesia" by Neville Robinson and David Vaughan; "Paediatric Anaesthesia" by Ann Black and Angus McEwan; "Cardiovascular and Thoracic Anaesthesia" by John Gothard, Andrea Kelleher and Elizabeth Haxby; and "Trauma and Orthopaedic Anaesthesia" by Geraldine Edge and Mary Fennelly.
Contents
Applied neurophysiology - control of cerebral circulation and ICP; Applied neuropharmacology - effect of drugs on CBF and ICP, control of convulsions, management of cerebral ischaemia; Preoperative assessment and management; Neuroimaging - CT and MRI; Principles of anaesthesia for craniotomy; Anaesthesia for aneurysm surgery; Anaesthesia for tumour; Anaesthesia for posterior fossa surgery; Anaesthesia for spinal surgery; Postoperative care; Monitoring of CNS; Traumatic brain injury