Core Topics in Operating Department Practice : Anaesthesia and Critical Care (Paperback)

1. Introduction: Anaesthetic practice Brian Smith; 2. Risk assessment Toni Bewley; 3. Clinical approach to ECG Chris Jones; 4. Auditing cricoid pressure Cheryl Conroy; 5. Breathing systems Norman Wright; 6. ET tube pilot cuff deflation Martin Maguire; 7. Preventing awareness - bispectral index Paul Rawling; 8. Aspects of perioperative neuroscience practice Margaret Woods; 9. Resuscitation in contemporary practice Robert Campbell; 10. IV versus inhalation anaesthesia Teresa Hardcastle; 11. Managing difficult intubations Michael Sewell; 12. Obstetric anaesthesia Thomas Williams; 13. Understanding blood gases Helen McNeill; 14. TIVA and infusion pumps Kevin Henshaw; 15. ECT - anaesthesia Mark Bottell; 16. Mechanical ventilation of the patient Jill Nolan; 17. Perioperative MI Marie Parsonage; 18. Developing a portfolio Gill Hall; 19. Being an accountable registered practitioner Stephen Wordsworth.