Anesthesia Manual of Surgical Procedures: A Case-by-Case Guide to Preoperative Assessment, Anesthetic Technique, Airway, and Intraoperative Management

By: Myrick, Victor L.

Know exactly what to do before you walk into the room.

You have eleven minutes before the case starts. You need to know the position, the airway plan, the pitfalls specific to this patient, and the one thing that could go wrong before it does. Most references make you dig for that. This one is built to give it to you in the time you actually have.

Anesthesia Manual of Surgical Procedures is a case-by-case working reference built specifically for SRNAs, anesthesiology residents, and AA students - not a condensed version of a book written for attendings, and not a textbook you study for boards and never open again.

Every one of the 104 procedure and topic entries follows the same eight-field structure, so once you know how to read one entry, you know how to read all of them:

Position - and what that position actually risksAirway plan - including the backup, not just the defaultLines and monitors - matched to what this specific case demandsInduction and maintenance - technique and sequencing, explainedIntraoperative pitfalls - named specifically, not genericallyFluids and blood - the actual strategy, and whyEmergence criteria - what has to be true before extubationRecovery handoff - the one thing the next clinician needs to know first

Every entry is tiered T1 to T3 by real clinical demand, not alphabetical order - so you can see at a glance whether tomorrow's case needs a quick refresh or your full attention tonight. The tier system also runs the rapid index in the back of the book: flip to your case, see the tier, know how much preparation it actually deserves, in seconds.

Covered across fourteen chapters: general and abdominal surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery and spine, cardiac, thoracic and vascular, obstetric anesthesia, pediatric anesthesia, ENT and ophthalmology, urology and transplant, non-operating-room anesthesia (endoscopy, interventional radiology, cath lab, MRI, ECT), and a full chapter on emergence, recovery, and crisis management - including malignant hyperthermia, anaphylaxis, and local anesthetic systemic toxicity, each mapped to a one-page crisis quick-reference card in the back of the book.

What this book will not do: hand you a drug dose and let you stop thinking. This is a technique-focused reference, built to support the conversation with your supervising clinician, not replace it. Every entry tells you the sequence, the reasoning, and the pitfall - the judgment stays where it belongs, with you and your attending.

Built for the moment before the case, not the moment you're studying for an exam. Read the framework once. After that, find your case, read that one entry, and walk in ready.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFT5NBSR
• ISBN13: 9798193685197
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"