<EM>Anesthesia Student Survival Guide: A Case-Based Approach is an indispensable introduction to the specialty. This concise, easy-to-read, affordable handbook is ideal for medical students, nursing students, and others during the anesthesia rotation. Written in a structured prose format and supplemented with many diagrams, tables, and algorithms, this pocket-sized guide contains essential material covered on the USMLE II-III and other licensing exams. The editors, who are academic faculty at Harvard Medical School, summarize the essential content with 32 informative and compelling case studies designed to help students apply new concepts to real situations. Pharmacology, basic skills, common procedures and anesthesia subspecialties are covered, too, with just the right amount of detail for an introductory text. The unique book also offers a section containing career advice and insider tips on how to receive good evaluations from supervising physicians. With its combination of astute clinical instruction, basic science explanation, and practical tips from physicians that have been there before, this handbook is your one-stop guide to a successful anesthesia rotation.
Anesthesia Student Survival Guide
Anesthesia Student Survival Guide A Case-Based Approach
Editors Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH Co-Director, Anesthesia Informatics Fellowship Instructor-In-Anaesthesia Harvard Medical School Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Richard D. Urman, MD, MBA Director, Hospital Procedural Sedation Management Instructor-In-Anaesthesia Harvard Medical School Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA Scott Segal, MD, MHCM Vice Chair for Education Associate Professor of Anaesthesia Harvard Medical School Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Editors Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH Co-Director, Anesthesia Informatics Fellowship Instructor Anaesthesia Harvard Medical School Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA
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Scott Segal, MD, MHCM Vice Chair for Education Associate Professor Harvard Medical School Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, MA
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Richard D. Urman, MD, MBA Director, Hospital Procedural Sedation Management Instructor Anaesthesia Harvard Medical School Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, MA
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ISBN 978-0-387-09708-4 e-ISBN 978-0-387-09709-1 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-09709-1 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010922447 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereaf