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Monitoring in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care is a practical and comprehensive resource documenting the current art and science of perioperative patient monitoring, addressing the systems-based practice issues that drive the highly regulated health care industry of the early twenty-first century. Initial chapters cover the history, medicolegal implications, validity of measurement and education issues relating to monitoring. The core of the book addresses the many monitoring modalities, with the majority of the chapters organized in a systematic fashion to describe technical concepts, parameters monitored, evidence of utility complications, credentialing and monitoring standards, and practice guidelines. Describing each device, technique and principle of clinical monitoring in an accessible style, Monitoring in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care is full of invaluable advice from the leading experts in the field, making it an essential tool for every anesthesiologist.

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David L. Reich, MD, was named Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY, in 2004, where he had previously been Co-Director of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia since 1990. Dr Reich's research interests include neurocognitive outcome following thoracic aortic surgery, outcome effects of intraoperative hemodynamics, medical informatics and hemodynamic monitoring. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles and more than 30 chapters and is an associate editor of the text Cardiac Anesthesia and editor-in-chief of Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. He is a member of the International Organization for Terminology in Anesthesia (IOTA) of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation and works with that group, IHTDSO and HL7 to create international standards for anesthesia terminology for electronic patient records. Ronald Kahn, MD, is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Alexander J. C. Mittnacht, MD, is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Director of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Andrew B. Leibowitz, MD, is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Executive Vice Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Marc E. Stone, MD, is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Program Director, Fellowship in Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center. James B. Eisenkraft, MD, is Professor of Anesthesiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University and Attending Anesthesiologist at the Mount Sinai Medical Center.

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