Anesthesia Secrets

by James Duke and James C. Duke

Book Overview

This mini-textbook of anesthesiology, following the popular question-and-answer format of the Secrets Series, has been completely revised and updated in this new edition . It presents factual information in a succinct, engaging, and lively manner. An ideal review book for students who are preparing for examinations, clinics, and boards, and a quick refresher for practicing anesthesiologists.Follows the preferred question-and-answer format that is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560533544
• ISBN13: 9781560533542
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Hanley & Belfus
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

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).

Buy this book if you practice Anesthesia

Great reference! I am a Nurse Anesthetist and I use this book almost daily with my clinical students. The book is direct and to the point. It is logically arranged and well written. I also have the second ed. and this is a vast improvement. I ordered several for my fellow anesthetist. Nice job Dr. Duke!!!

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.

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!

A book everyone in anesthesia should have

Where you can get the "MEAT" of each area without reading a lot of miscellaneous information.