Description

Stoelting’s Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease focuses on a question every anesthesiologist faces daily: how does this patient’s illness change my anesthetic plan? This 8th Edition, edited by Roberta L. Hines and Stephanie B. Jones, was published by Elsevier in October 2021 and runs to 752 pages in print. According to the publisher, it provides concise, thorough coverage of the pathophysiology of the most common diseases and their medical management relevant to anesthesia.

Who benefits from Stoelting’s Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease

• Anesthesia residents preparing preoperative assessments and needing to understand the disease behind each patient.
• Candidates for written and oral examinations, where comorbidities are at the heart of many questions and scenarios.
• Nurse anesthetists who want a disease-centred reference to support perioperative planning.
• Attending anesthesiologists and preoperative clinic teams who evaluate complex patients before surgery.

This book assumes you know basic anesthetic techniques; a core text such as Morgan and Mikhail’s Clinical Anesthesiology covers that ground. Our guide to anesthesiology books for residents explains where a comorbidity reference fits.

How the content is organised

As the title and the publisher’s description suggest, the book is organised around diseases rather than around anesthetic techniques. For common conditions, it brings together the pathophysiology, the medical management and the implications for anesthesia, so that you can move from a diagnosis on the patient’s chart to concrete perioperative considerations. This disease-first approach is what makes Stoelting’s Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease a natural companion to preoperative clinics, where most of the work consists of anticipating how a chronic condition will behave under anesthesia and surgery.

To see which disease categories are covered and how chapters are arranged in this edition, open the online FlipBook preview on this page and browse the table of contents and sample pages before you buy.

About the 8th Edition

This page offers the 8th Edition of Stoelting’s Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease, published by Elsevier in 2021. Medical management of chronic diseases evolves, so check whether your program recommends a specific edition and always confirm current guidelines and local protocols before applying recommendations.

Using it for preoperative assessment and exams

1. Read around tomorrow’s patients. When a patient on your list has a significant comorbidity, read the relevant section the evening before and note two anesthetic implications.
2. Build one-page disease summaries. For each condition, write the key pathophysiology, the medications the patient is likely to take and the main perioperative concerns.
3. Quiz yourself. Turn your summaries into questions and answer them a few days later; our article on active recall shows how. For drug interactions, see how to study pharmacology.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists publishes practice guidelines and statements relevant to preoperative evaluation.

Format, preview and access

With Stoelting’s Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease as a searchable PDF, you can look up a condition in the preoperative clinic within seconds. See how to choose medical eBooks for format advice.

Complementary titles

• Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures, 6th Edition: the surgical side of the plan, procedure by procedure.
• Kaplan’s Cardiac Anesthesia, 8th Edition: in-depth management of patients with cardiac disease.
• Yao & Artusio’s Anesthesiology, 9th Edition: case-based practice built around patient problems.
• Mosby’s Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 7th Edition: help interpreting the preoperative tests you order.

Frequently asked questions

How is Stoelting’s Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease different from a general anesthesia textbook?

General textbooks cover the whole specialty. This book concentrates on common diseases and how they affect anesthetic management.

Which edition is sold here?

The 8th Edition, edited by Roberta L. Hines and Stephanie B. Jones and published by Elsevier in 2021.

Are online resources included?

No. You receive the PDF eBook only; publisher platforms, activation codes and supplementary resources are not included.

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