Careers in Nursing | Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)

Pediatric Anesthesia

Emphasizing safety, efficacy, and evidence, this is the only text representative of the multidisciplinary effort requisite to ensure delivery of optimal pediatric anesthesia care.

Featuring the expert perspectives of over 120 professionals across disciplines, this highly anticipated text is designed to meet the needs of nurse anesthesia students and certified registered nurse anesthetists responsible for providing anesthesia for infants and children. Distinguished by its multidisciplinary, practical approach, this user-friendly text delivers a comprehensive survey of all key aspects of the field, including evidence-based techniques and current trends. With brief and consistent chapters organized by body system, this text offers readers a solid foundation in pediatric anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, and anesthetic care to ensure the delivery of best practices in the clinical arena.

With patient safety at the forefront, brief procedural chapters review the indications, unique aspects of the preoperative evaluation, and a step-by-step guide to delivering anesthesia for a variety of common and complex procedures, as well as clinical pearls, complications management, and postoperative care considerations. More than 35 case studies illustrate application of anesthetic techniques in practice and foster critical thinking and discussion. Abundant figures and tables illustrate key points and aid in retention. Instructor resources include an instructor's manual with additional case studies, PowerPoints, and a test bank.

Key Features:

• Presents the entire range of anesthetic procedures organized by body system
• Demonstrates advanced techniques and aids retention through case studies, illustrations, tables, and images
• Covers special topics including fetal surgery, neonatal emergencies, transplant surgery, pain management, ERAS protocols, non-operating room anesthesia, and ethical considerations
• Includes online resources for emergency medication dosing, age-based parameters, antibiotic prophylaxis, and case plan templates
• Includes an instructor's manual with additional case studies, PowerPoints, and a test bank.

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Annual Review of Nursing Research, Volume 35

Advances in the delivery and monitoring of anesthesia care have expanded and improved exponentially in the last 30 years. These advances have been driven by a persistent search for best practices based on a foundation of evidence-based care. It is this interest in translation of research to practice that spawned this 35th edition of the Annual Review of Nursing Research, the first of this series to address anesthesia care.

This volume bridges that gap for all those involved or interested in clinical anesthesia care including nurse anesthetists, physician anesthesiologists, anesthesia assistants, and postanesthesia care unit nurses. It aims to identify current topics in anesthesia care that generate discussion and disagreement with respect to the available research and evidence and therefore application of best practices.

Each author was specifically selected for their interest, expertise, and knowledge of the chapter topic but just as importantly for their direct exposure to the issue within their personal clinical experience. The material provides the busy clinician with the most up-to-date information and recommendations on topics germane to everyday practice.

Key Topics:

• Preparing Anesthetists to Manage Cannot Intubate/Cannot Ventilate Situations
• Anesthetic Implications of Obesity and Obstructive Sleep Apnea
• Anesthesia Information Management Systems
• Acupuncture and Chronic Pain Management
• Anesthesia Involvement in Palliative Care
• Forced-Air Warmers and Surgical Site Infections in Patients Undergoing Knee or Hip Arthroplasty
• The Neurotoxicity of General Anesthetic Drugs: Emphasis on the Extremes

Chemistry and Physics for Nurse Anesthesia

With a focus on chemistry and physics content that is directly relevant to the practice of anesthesia, this text--written in an engaging, conversational style--supplies all the scientific information required for the combined chemistry and physics course for nurse anesthesia students. Now in its third edition, the text is updated and reorganized to facilitate a greater ease and depth of understanding. The addition of a third author--a practicing nurse anesthetist--enhances the clinical relevance of the scientific information. Clinical scenarios now begin every chapter, and a concluding chapter, new to this edition, provides detailed, step-by-step solutions to the book's review questions. Also included is a comprehensive list of need-to-know equations.

The third edition retains the many outstanding learning features from earlier editions, including a special focus on gases, the use of illustrations to demonstrate how scientific concepts relate directly to their clinical application in anesthesia, and end-of-chapter summaries and review questions to facilitate self-assessment. Fifteen online videos enhance teaching and learning, and abundant clinical application scenarios help reinforce scientific principles and relate them to day-to-day anesthesia procedures. This clear, easy-to-read text will help even the most chemistry- and physics-phobic students to master the foundations of these sciences and competently apply them in a variety of clinical situations.

NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION:

• Increased focus on clinical relevance
• Revised and updated chapters foster ease of understanding
• Clinical application scenarios open each chapter
• A new chapter provides guidance about calculator use and a unique problem-solving method
• Detailed step-by-step solutions clarify answers to end-of-chapter problems
• Comprehensive list of all key equations with explanation of symbols

KEY FEATURES:

• Written in an engaging, informal style for ease of understanding
• Focuses solely on chemistry and physics principles relevant to nurse anesthetists
• Provides end-of-chapter summaries and review questions
• Fifteen online videos enhance teaching and learning
• Includes abundant illustrations that apply theory to practice