Product Description

The Secrets Series® is breaking new ground again. A two-color page layout, a portable size, and a list of the "Top 100 Secrets" in anesthesia help you to better meet the challenges they face today. And, at no extra charge, you’ll also receive online access to the complete contents of the text via Elsevier’s innovative STUDENT CONSULT website. You’ll still find all of the features you rely on the Secret Series® for—a question-and-answer format, lists, mnemonics, and tables and an informal tone that make reference fast and easy. No matter what questions arise in practice or while preparing for boards, this new volume has the answers you need—in print and online. The smart way to study! Elsevier titles with STUDENT CONSULT will help you master difficult concepts and study more efficiently in print and online! Perform rapid searches. Integrate bonus content from other disciplines. Download text to your handheld device. And a lot more. Each STUDENT CONSULT title comes with full text o * All chapters updated or completely re-written for this edition. * Incorporates 75 figures, 15 of which are new to this edition. * Utilizes a new, more streamlined structure. * Includes a list of the "Top 100 Secrets" to keep in mind during a rotation or residency. * Features a compact trim size (5 1/4" x 8 1/2") for enhanced portability. * Makes information easier to find with a two-color page layout and "Key Points" boxes. * Identifies useful websites to make it easy to find additional information on a specific topic, and provides live links in the online version. * Uses bulleted lists, tables, short answers, and a highly detailed index to expedite reference. * Features pearls, tips, memory aids, and "secrets" from the experts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7511 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

About the Author
James Duke, MD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center; Associate Director of Anesthesiology, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado

Customer Reviews

Excellent Summary of Most Important topics in Anesthesia
I owned the first edition of this book during medical school while taking a rotation in Anesthesiology, and it was an INVALUABLE aid! I could find many answers to questions I was "pimped" on during the rotation, which were hard or impossible to find in the standard large text books. I highly recommend it to anyone doing a rotation in, planning on going into, or working in and around Anesthesiologists! An absolutely wonderful book, buy it!

Excellent book for 4th year Medical Students
This book is extremely well written and has all the information you are most likely to be pimped on. When residents have seen me reading it they say this is one of the best books around and that this new edition is extremely well done with the use of color and organization of topics. Most of these same residents will whip out their old copies and ask if they can compare the two to see if its worth them buying the new edition.

If you already have a solid Physiology background, I suggest buying only this book and not wasting your time buying the baby Miller(Basics of Anesthesia).

Impressive
As a nurse I have worked in PACU for a couple of years, but it was only after reading through this book, temporarily abandoned on a table in the unit by one of the residents, that I realized of how much about the subject I was quite ignorant. I decided to remedy the deficiency by reading more on the topic. Although we had a number of books on the nursing aspect of anesthesia, I found that most of them bogged me down in things I really didn't need to know to do my job. It was interesting to learn about the demographics of PACU nurses or about the amount of space needed for each patient bed, for instance, but it wasn't really helpful. I decided to purchase the book the resident had been reading, Anesthesia Secrets. I wasn't disappointed.

Although there is a lot of information about the field of medical anesthesia for which a nurse is not ultimately responsible, it is certainly useful to have that knowledge, as it specifically underlies patient care decisions. It also helps make one aware of the adverse outcomes that may arise from anesthesia and what to look for to prevent them. As in ICU, perhaps even more so than in ICU, the nurse has considerable decision making autonomy, and it is important that his/her background be adequate to undertake the responsiblity. In general, I found this book was much more pertinent to what I was actually doing in PACU than nursing books were.

I also found the volume helpful specifically to me, as I spent about a year as the PACU's night nurse, and one of the components of my job was the scrutiny of patient labs for irregularities prior to surgery. It helped to know those specific labs that were important to anesthesiology, what their normals were, and what lower (or higher) limits were acceptable for the OR. Levels that might not be of over riding significance to a particular service, such as BMT for instance, might prove important to the OR and be a cause for dropping the patient from the schedule.

Well worth the money. I was very impressed.