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"Anesthesiology: A Comprehensive Review for the Written Boards and Recertification is a high-yield, streamlined study aid. It contains more than 1000 updated, realistic multiple-choice questions tailored to the question content of recent American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) exams. To maximize reading efficiency, key messages are repeated and highlighted in the bullets. While focusing on most-frequently tested keywords by the ABA, this book also covers new ""emerging"" topics such as patient safety, statistics, and ethics. Well-chosen illustrations and graphs are used to enhance the learning experience. Also novel is a high-yield summary of the 60 most frequently tested topics and concepts to be reviewed just before taking the boards. With this book as guidance, readers will be able to efficiently prepare for the written primary certification or recertification anesthesiology board exam."

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Author:   Kai Matthes (Clinical Fellow, Department of Anesthesiology, Clinical Fellow, Department of Anesthesiology, Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA) ,  Richard Urman, MD (Attending Anesthesiologist, Attending Anesthesiologist, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA) ,  Jesse Ehrenfeld (Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 21.70cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   1.530kg
ISBN:  

9780199733859

ISBN 10:   0199733856
Pages:   656
Publication Date:   23 May 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Inhalational Anesthesia Jerome Adams, MD and Amy Dorwart, MD 2. Pulmonary Physiology Todd Kerensky, MD and Stephanie Jones, MD 3. Anesthesia and Disease States, Part I Jutta Novalija, MD, PhD, Vikram Khatri, MD, Gopu Varadarajan, MD, and Christine M. Zainer, MD 4. Anesthesia and Disease States, Part II Christopher Plambeck, MD, Vikram Khatri, MD, Gopu Varadarajan, MD, and Christine M. Zainer, MD 5. Pediatric Anesthesia David R. Moss, MD 6. Obstetric Anesthesia Adrienne Kung, MD and Philip Hess, MD 7. Regional Anesthesia Pedram Aleshi, MD and Harold Fong, MD 8. Acute and Chronic Pain Pankaj Mehta, MD, Katherine Zaleski, MD, Robert Foege, MD, and Christine Peeters-Asdourian, MD 9. Cardiac Anesthesia Kathleen Chen, MD and Adam Lerner, MD 10. Thoracic Anesthesia William Edward Corcoran, MD and John Pawlowski, MD 11. Vascular Anesthesia Beth Misiura, MD and Ruma Bose, MD 12. Neuroanesthesia Tiffany Brainerd, MD and Mary Ellen McCann, MD 13. Transfusion therapy Peter Wu, MD and Rob Hsuing, MD 14. Anesthesia Equipment Aalok Agarwala, MD, MBA, Rafael Vazquez, MD, and Cuong Vu, MD 15. Airway Management Joe Meltzer, MD 16. Complications Elizabeth Cohen, MD, Amanda Monahan, MD, and Stephen Pratt, MD 17. Pharmacology Markus Klimek, MD, PhD and Thomas H. Ottens, MD 18. Statistics and Ethics D. John Doyle, MD, PhD, FRCPC 19. Transplant Anesthesia Douglas Dohl, MD and Charlene Walton, MD 20. Intensive Care Chad E. Wagner, MD, Nathan Ashby, MD, and Jason D. Kennedy, MD 21. High-Yield Board Review Topics Kaveh Aslani, MD, Richard Han, MD, MPH, and Dominic Monterosso, DO

Reviews

Coverage in this book is broad. It contains chapters on: acute and chronic pain, airway equipment, anesthesia and disease states, cardiac anesthesia, complications, high-yield board review topics, inhalational anesthesia, intensive care, neuroanesthesia, obstetric anesthesia, pediatric anesthesia, pharmacology, pulmonary physiology, statistics and ethics, thoracic anesthesia, transfusion therapy, transplant anesthesia, and vascular anesthesia... This is an excellent guide with concise questions and answers that make for efficient, time-saving, and really effective review for the anesthesiology board examination. Nano Khilnani for Bizindia, June 2013

The chapters contain multiple-choice questions, followed by a section that contains the correct answer to each question, an elaboration of that answer, illustrations in some places to aid in learning, key facts associated with the topic, and finally, a list of additional readings. This is what we call 'expert organization.' This is an excellent guide with concise questions and answers that make for efficient, time-saving, and really effective review for the anesthesiology board examination. -- BizIndia

Author Information

Kai Matthes is Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School Staff Anesthesiologist at Children's Hospital Boston Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine. Richard Urman is Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School and Director, Procedural Sedation Management & Safety, Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. Jesse Ehrenfeld is Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.

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