Nurse Anesthesia Pocket Guide 4.3.1

Nurse Anesthesia Pocket Guide: A Resource for Students and Clinicians, Third Edition offers a concise and user-friendly collection of information for nurse anesthetists working in the operating room. This updated edition covers core principles of anesthesia, obstetrics, pediatrics, regional anesthesia, and medication charts.

The Third Edition has been completely revised and includes valuable new content. It provides comprehensive information on anesthetic complications, intraoperative monitoring, positioning ramifications, nerve injury, pharmacology, peripheral nerve blocks, as well as math and pulmonary/cardiac formulas.

The book's table of contents includes:

• Core Anesthesia Info
• AGM - Airway - Ventilation
• Monitoring
• Intravenous Fluids, Colloids, Blood Products
• Anesthesia Pharmacology
• Neuraxial Anesthesia
• Peripheral Nerve Blocks
• Neuro Anatomy and Physiology
• Cardiac
• Arterial Blood Gases
• Pediatrics
• Obstetric Anesthesia
• Abbreviations

About the Author:

Lynn Fitzgerald Macksey MSN, CRNA has extensive experience as a cardiothoracic intensive care nurse and has taught various nursing courses, including Advanced Cardiac Life Support and classes for Critical Care Registered Nurses. She also served as an adjunct clinical instructor at Seminole Community College. Mrs. Macksey has published three case studies in a peer-reviewed journal and has authored multiple anesthesia texts, including two pocket guides and a textbook on Surgical Procedures and Anesthetic Implications. She has presented at prestigious conferences, such as the Cleveland AANA meeting in 2006, and has been a guest lecturer at the Raleigh School of Nurse Anesthesia. Mrs. Macksey currently practices as a CRNA and serves as a clinical preceptor to nurse anesthesia students at the Raleigh School of Nurse Anesthesia in North Carolina.

Based on: ISBN-13: 9781284115147
Published by: Jones & Bartlett Learning